So because you work for a company that makes stuff, my argument is invalid. You realize I wasn't saying we make nothing at all, right? It's that we are ever making less in the US and ever buying more made elsewhere.
You may want to check your data sources or clarify if you mean 'manufacturing jobs' or 'manufactured goods'. One of those has decreased significantly, while the other has increased...a lot.
It's that we are ever making less in the US and ever buying more made elsewhere.
iPods, sure.
But if you're talking really expensive, high-quality, hard to make stuff ... it's likely made in the US.
One just doesn't see it because the average guy sees a lot of cell phones, and iPods, but doesn't really notice manhole covers or iron-castings with millionth-of-an-inch tolerances.
