Reply #16: Industrial Machine Tools are not "Low Margin" consumer goods

[FreakinDJ]

That is just 1 of the industries that has been shipped off shore. Many many reports on the internet of workers being laid off and whole factories being unbolted from the floor and shipped over-seas

Steel Manufacturing would be another.

I don't doubt your statistics but rather the means by which they have been generated. We all know for a time the Bush administration was contemplating counting Hamburger makers at McDonald's and other fast food chains as "Manufacturing Jobs" because the industry has hemorrhaging jobs at such an alarming pace (2002 - 2008). Don't doubt for a moment that some of those same accounting errors have yet to be purged by the Obama administration.

I for 1 believe "Blue Collar" jobs a vital part of the American economy