Reply #4: IT is the cruelest twist

[jswordy]

I lived in the rust belt in the early 1980s when unemployment was so awful. IT was sold to those states as the next big thing that would keep their people employed. The pitch was that the rust belt states lost outg because they had failed to catch the IT curve.

So many of them went to IT all-out, training their folks and offering incentives to companies.

Now those jobs are shipping overseas, too. I wonder what the next big supposed savior will be?

To me, we need to get our manufacturing base back again if we ever hope to be back on top of the employment wave.