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[QUOTE="alphaorange, post: 105325, member: 305"]
As it turns out, I'm in contract manufacturing so I keep a close eye on what is going on with that field. After reading these posts, it's pretty clear that most people have no real concept of just how much stuff is NOT made here. I wrote a paper on this very topic 7 years ago. It was bad then and it is much worse now. My challenge to anyone would be to make a list of 10 non related items and then try to find them as a US manufactured version. If you find 2 of 10, it'll be amazing. If I recall, we had lost close to 5 million manufacturing jobs from 1980-2003. I'm sure it is double that by now.

We have not only lost the jobs, we have lost the knowledge and skills that we had accrued over several decades. It takes almost 20years to train and staff a country to be highly skilled in manufacturing and it will take us that long, too. Most of the skilled, knowledgeable workers are either retired or closing in on it. Our economy is unhealthy because we have nearly lost the middle class, and we have lost the middle class because we have lost manufacturing.
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