Letters to the Editor
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@Bryan H.
"To top it all off, we have an anemic (if not downright comatose) manufacturing sector."
No. We have an extremely talented, mature manufacturing sector that's curently a little under employed. It's so good that it now spends most of it's time training the rest of the world in the best ways to build things. And largely for the same corporations that we used to build things for here. The US is still a brain drain on the rest of the world for engineering and technical talent, because this is still where the most of the product developement is happening. But that isn't going to last unless we start developing then next generation of senior assemblers and technicians. There just aren't any entry level jobs ot there for semi-skilled labor. US corporations are eating their seed corn.