That's last comment is bullshit, and you know it.
As for your first paragraph, our industrial powerhouse years, do you mean the Gilded Age or when profit not customer service became the be all and end all of CEO's?
Good paying jobs went by the by when the middle class went into the doldrums with the election of Reagan, and stagnated for the next three decades as the management class and above garnered benefits and the labor class lost both benefits and wage increases.
The manufacturing decline began in the 70s.
Well before Reagan was elected.
And there has been TWO, TWO term democratic presidents since then who could have addressed the Middle Class Doldrums.
The recent WTO Airbus ruling proves Trump's position on trade predators is correct.
If our "friends" are fucking US that badly, only a fool would think that China is being nicer.
We need new trade policy. Only Trump is interested in even trying.
Keep in mind even when you say that, manufacturing has only declined as a percent of GDP. How much we manufacture has continued to rise
Fair point, BUT, I want the jobs that our cheating trade "partners" have stolen from US.
That doesn't exist
Germany has twice the level of manufacturing jobs that we do.
Automation has made manufacturing more efficient, but it is still a big pile of jobs.
ANd many of them have been shipped, in one form or another overseas.
Did you catch the recent WTO airbus ruling? The EU has been supporting airbus illegally, gaining thousands of high paying manufacturing jobs, directly at the expense of American workers.
And they are not going to stop, despite the ruling.
The political buzzword, "high paying" jobs.
Our government drives manufacturing offshore with oppressive regulations and taxes. Let's stop doing that