Just like manufacuring jobs in the US can't be saved? You liberals are so narrow minded. You are losing touch with the average voter and that's why Trump won. Trump also won because of the rural voters. They're not going anywhere, especially to the big cities.
I am not quite sure who is being narrow minded here. I am pretty sure that the way things are evolving, holding on to manufacturing jobs is going to hurt the US economy as a whole in the long run. It is going to be very expensive, because it is artificial and forced. It will ultimately hurt evreyone, including the rural voters and workers in manufacturing. Trump may save 800 jobs now in the Carrier plant in Indiana, but if he really pushes systematic policies that will artificially try to keep those jobs here, it will hurt one, or several, or even all of the following parties: the workers, the manufacturers, investors, Wall Street, taxpayers, etc... It is going against what the market is demanding. It is swimming upstream.
"Trump and Bernie Sanders blame China for undercutting American workers with cheap labor (even Trump makes a lot of his suits and ties overseas). But there's another big factor: technology. Robots and machines are also replacing workers. The tech trend would have happened regardless of trade.
Still, manufacturing remains a key part of the U.S. economy. Over 12.3 million Americans are employed in the industry. But it's not the powerhouse it was...
Trade likely sped up the shift, but many experts say it was inevitable. It's unlikely many manufacturing jobs will ever return, even if Trump's walls get built.
"Trump's talk on trade is bluster," says economist Charles Ballard of Michigan State University. "Even if you did [what Trump says], you wouldn't reverse the technology, which is a very big part of the picture."
Trump's threat to put hefty taxes on Chinese and Mexican goods coming into the country would likely to sink the economy into a recession. It would make many items at the store more expensive for working class Americans and spark a global trade war.
The U.S. tried this tactic in the 1930s with a law known as Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. It backfired, pulling the U.S. further into the Great Depression...
Unemployment in the U.S. is low again because people have found work despite the manufacturing jobs disappearing.
The jobs former manufacturing workers have moved into -- health care, construction and retail -- also vary greatly in pay, benefits and quality.
"Certain industries have declined and others have risen," says Harvard professor and trade expert Robert Lawrence. "In aggregate, the economy is close to full employment." "
U.S. has lost 5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000 - Mar. 29, 2016
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But the folks supporting Trump are not the college educated types. They just see two feet in front of them, not the big picture. These policies may seem penny wise to them, but they are pound foolish. Their election of Trump is tantamount to just shooting themselves in the foot out of frustration. It's only going to make things worse for them. And the problem is that the effects of a Trump presidency are going to be catastrophic for them not necessarily next month, or next year, or even 4 years from now. It will really start to hit them 10, 20, 30 years from now. But hey, I am sure that there will be some Democrat sap around somewhere that they can blame all the pain on then.
