Then aim your bile at our parents' generation and our generation. We are the ones who have allowed manufacturers to "get away with" what they're doing. This has been going on since the early 1980s.
The content of your rants tend to be aimed at people much younger than us, who are inheriting---not creating---the current state of things. The reason they aren't shocked that manufacturing has for the most part been taken over by 2nd and 3rd world countries is because that's all they've ever known. They weren't alive when products were actually manufactured in the US. As I mentioned in the previous post, they are preparing for lives that aren't based in home ownership and job stability. They will marry later and have fewer children. They will choose to spend their money in the service sector---for their meals, coffee, laundry, travel, etc.---to a degree that will probably horrify us. That is a huge but undeniable shift in the American mindset.
Barring a catastrophic disruption of global economic transaction, those days are gone. You're demanding a seat at the front of a bus that no longer exists.
The global doors were opened nearly 40 years ago. The government is finding it very difficult to force corporations to keep their operations here, especially since growth areas for sales are India and China.
As we Boomers age and die, the size of the American market will shrink even more rapidly, and the things the next generation prioritizes for purchase with their hard-earned dollars will be very different than yours and mine.
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The content of your rants tend to be aimed at people much younger than us, who are inheriting---not creating---the current state of things. The reason they aren't shocked that manufacturing has for the most part been taken over by 2nd and 3rd world countries is because that's all they've ever known. They weren't alive when products were actually manufactured in the US. As I mentioned in the previous post, they are preparing for lives that aren't based in home ownership and job stability. They will marry later and have fewer children. They will choose to spend their money in the service sector---for their meals, coffee, laundry, travel, etc.---to a degree that will probably horrify us. That is a huge but undeniable shift in the American mindset.
Barring a catastrophic disruption of global economic transaction, those days are gone. You're demanding a seat at the front of a bus that no longer exists.
The global doors were opened nearly 40 years ago. The government is finding it very difficult to force corporations to keep their operations here, especially since growth areas for sales are India and China.
As we Boomers age and die, the size of the American market will shrink even more rapidly, and the things the next generation prioritizes for purchase with their hard-earned dollars will be very different than yours and mine.
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