Trump's manufacturing dream is a mirage

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4. I would beg to differ with those that believe a "service-based economy" is the best we can do!

It's the money people! I've been in manufacturing for my working life. Manufacturing often gets "outsourced" and "offshored" simply because financially oriented managers find it burdensome and vexatious!
Many times, it's because skilled trades people are more intelligent, well read, and experienced than the "bean counters" and "phone talkers". Which gives "management" fits, as they are much more comfortable buying finished products than dealing with the myriad issues of producing them, particularly when they have to "learn on the go" like all their blue collar help has had to every day.