Reply #5: There are plenty of examples

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of businesses that manufacture things in the US competing with industries across the globe that pay excellent wages and have good benefits. (See Micheal Moores latest film) Big business would like to convince you that is not possible because it is not possible for them to continue to undermine workers rights and pocketing huge CEO pay if they don't use the specter of potential outsourcing or offshoring to convince US workers and consumers to accept less.

The dollar is weak and will get weaker if we have nothing tangible to back it up if our economy is based soley on the dead FIRE economy. Rebuilding our manufacturing base will help shore up the value of the dollar not the other way around. Rebuilding our infrastructure and pursuing green technology that helps us become less dependent on foreign oil would also help in the long run.