'Unpatriotic' Ford Agrees Union Deal To Offshore American Jobs And Hire Low-Paid Workers

[achilles28]

Lets put it this way. Manufacturing employment today is roughly the same as it was in 1942......65 YEARS AGO!!! When America's population was less then HALF the size it is today! In 1942, 8.5% of the population worked in manufacturing.

8.5% x 320 million = 27 million jobs in manufacturing today, had the same employment percentage been maintained.

Based on that chart, we're short around 15 million manufacturing jobs x ~60,000 (average salary and benefits of factory job) = roughly 1 Trillion in GDP.

Now do you dummies get where the black hole came from in the federal budget? OR no? Still not clear??? LOL

 

[newwurldmn]

It's real simple man. Manufacturing as a PERCENTAGE of the overall economy has shrunk drastically. IOW, PER CAPITA manufacturing employment shrunk drastically since the 70's. It should have remained similar or slightly decreased due to automation. That's as basic as I can dumb it down.

You said something above about baseless assertions.