Some have and many have not which is why the USA's share of world manufacturing output is not down much over the last 50 years. To get it up we need to reduce or eliminate our corporate taxes and regulations which are the highest in the world. Then we need to eliminate our budget deficits and let growing automation equalize our efficiency.
Obviously the last thing we need to do is protect and cripple our industry so we become a second or third rate country. Now do you understand?
James972, interesting that you or your information source chose the 1960’s to start describing the extents of manufacturing historic contributions to USA’s annual GDPs. By 1960 foreign manufactured goods, particularly Japanese electronic products had already crowded a good portion of USA goods out of USA’s domestic markets.
The 1956 Noble physics prize was awarded to John Bardeen and Walter Brattain William Shockley "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".
They accomplished this while working for Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of the Western Electric Company. This work began in the 1940’s.
When the age of solid state electronics had begun, USA’s manufacturing had already been significantly decimated and Japanese enterprises harvested a great portion of fruits due to Bell Lab’s achievement. Do you find many USA electronic devices sold in USA stores? It’s now much less likely that such discoveries, researches, and developments are much more likely to be the products of foreign rather than USA enterprises.
[I have a vivid memory of 1960 Mother’s Day. Then many, (if not most) Americans already had transistor radios and their retail prices had significantly fallen.
In 1960 I only found Japanese portable radios being sold in USA retail stores. USA manufacturing goods had already been replaced with Japanese imports. I recall paying at least $19.99 for a “Panasonic solid state electronics” radio. Referring to:
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=20.00&year1=1960&year2=2017
($20 in 9160) = ($164.08 in 2017).
After that Mother’s Day, I recall seeing a transistor radio with a recognizable USA brand name; it was a Westinghouse or G.E. radio and I would suppose even that was made in Japan.]
[Excerpted from this thread’s 3:23 PM, 12Mar2017 post:
There's a symbiotic relationship between production and technical knowledge. As we produce we gain experience and insight as to what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. We learn about the tools and materials we’re manipulating. ...
... We're failing to defend USA production of goods and the higher paying jobs that accompany production. If USA firms don't produce goods, they don't hire engineers, they don't do research and development, the don't help support our infrastructure. You’re advocating a policy to transform the USA to be a second-class nation.]
Obviously you don't understand.
Respectfully, Supposn