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SouthernDemocrat said:Actually, we have been loosing industrial jobs for 30 years now. Industry used to be the largest portion of our GDP, now it only makes up 20% of GDP. I am not saying that is either a good or a bad thing, but to argue that we are creating more industrial and auto industry jobs than we are loosing is absolutely ludicrous.
The share of the total workforce engaged in working in manufacturing has been declining for decades, not just here but worldwide. Why? Because we increase productivity and not as high a share of laborers are needed to produce an increasing supply of goods. And we are becoming more educated and the higher the education one has the less one wants to be a laborer. Is that bad? We have fewer farmers, LOTS fewer farmers because we have automated farming. Would it be better to have to have more people on farms or on assembly lines? And just as has happened historically in this country many of those jobs up north are moving to the South (as did for instance textiles throughout the 20th Century).
That being said we still have a need for workers in manufacturing here in the South just as I said.
Moreover, it’s almost just as ludicrous for Hillary to argue that electing Democrats would change that.
Absolutly.