re: #433 Obdicut

Manufacturing is in no way dead here. Again: We have a higher manufacturing capacity here than ever before, in terms of economics— we have less tonnage produced than in WWII, but there’s obvious reasons for that.

It’s jobs that have gone, not the manufacturing.

Sure it is……. I live it everyday. Yes we have capacity which means we have no work.

The industry that I sell for had approximately 5000 manufacturing shops in the mid 80’s…… less than 400 exist today. When China came into the picture in the early 90’s, how many could invest in automation?…… Obviously not many.