Made in America: The short list

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Wal Mart and over consumerism is what has done us in people want low cost over anything else and that is why most items are not made in the US or 1st world nations now our only major in demand comity are high cost items that require complex machinery and engineering to even produce the problem is that these types of items usually do not require very many workers to produce so less jobs you only need maybe 100-150 workers at a GE turbofan factory you might need 500 or more workers at a t-shirt factory.

Good points. Another thing that gets ignored is the effect of productivity increases. Manufacturing jobs are inevitably going to be lost because of increased technology and efficiency. Building one car on Henry Ford's Model T assembly line probably took 100 times the number of workers it takes to build one Ford today.