A previous employer used to say, "we all can't flip burgers, somebody has to make something"...
And in old manufacturing towns throughout the U.S. it's not hard to find people complaining about NAFTA and Free-Trade, and economic development, community colleges and others working hard to hang on to those last manufacturing jobs with incentives, lean manufacturing training, six sigma, etc. This has been going on for the last 20 years. And what has been the result?
As this chart on MSNBC shows...
U.S. Manufactures Are Making One Thing - Profits
Which begs the question, if they're running lean and using advanced technologies to make record profits - What are the people they no longer need to make profits going to do?
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