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Old 04-10-2018, 12:51 PM
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Well, I know how you feel, until our current president, Washington DC has been waging a war on US manufacturing. I have lost 2 jobs to the Chinese. Not sure even now I would recommend anything in the Mfg sector to a young person either. Of course all the non-mfg people who I told to buy american said things like "it is my business who I buy from, etc." No support at all.... I think if I had to do it all over again I would go into IT.
To set the record straight, it has been demand from consumers who wanted low prices and stockholders who demand maximum stock appreciation for 4+ decades...that resulted in off-shoring/foreign manufacturing.

The fact that some American industries, such as automotive manufacturing, thought they could build vastly inferior products and shame people into "buying American"... exacerbated the problem.