Keep that in mind, that even if you get a percent of the economy that is
still supposed to be manufacturing, very-very-very little of it involves applying
tools and machines to material to produce tangible goods.
The manufacturing sector lost more than three million jobs between1998 and
2003, with 2.7 million lost since the immediate pre-recessionyear of 2000."
By the bye, the code phrase "higher productivity" most often means this. We
used to make everything here from native materials with native labor. Now
much of the work is farmed out overseas and only finished here. If you have
the socket, base, fittings, and switch of a light fixture manufactured in China,
buy it from China for $10, add a $2 cover or shade made in the USA, and sell
it as a wholesale item for $15, it counts as a $15 item made in the USA ....
only made "more efficiently" than making al the parts here and employing many
more people.
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