There AREN’T enough of those jobs. Retail and service jobs (thee lowest paying jobs) are by far the largest job sector in this country.
There are a lot of people who want to work and make money.
They also would generate more demand for goods to be produced.
Still, we see that “the system” is doing precious nothing to address the issue.
Is it not the best demonstration of how great our economic system is in “self-regulating”?
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Those who think the current economic situation needs no regulation to promote a fairer distribution are those who are benefiting from it.
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I’ve seen MANY people who claim they want a completely FREE and unregulated market, are all for regulations IF IT BENEFITS THEM.
Production jobs moved overseas. So that’s what we’re left with. A certain administration (that most here despise) is trying to do something about that. Whether folks agree, disagree, or hate the current admin., or think they’re going about it the wrong way, they are making an attempt.
Actually most production jobs were automated away.
Look where domestic cars are made now vs in the past.
Many domestic cars, not all.
The automotive market is just one segment for manufacturing in this country.
Must say, I’d be concerned a bit. “Fairer” is a relative term. Fair to whom? I’m probably lower middle class. I do not want to support someone who doesn’t try as hard, and that’s my fear. There are jobs available in MS above minimum wage. Actually, I’m hiring. $12/hr to start.
Yes, it is. One that has moved overseas.
True many automotive manufacturing jobs moved overseas. But MORE automotive manufacturing jobs were lost to automation. My brother-in-law is a retired Chryco Plant manager. He’s automated plants for Chryco that reduced the workforce by 2/3’s over the years. Chryco, GM and Ford can build the same number of vehicles here in the US as they did in the 80’s with less then 1/3 the labor due to automation.
No argument there. But where was your shirt made? If the vast majority of jobs in this country are retail and service jobs, like you stated, and the vast majority of goods are imported (which seems to be the case just by reading labels)…the conclusion would be that manufacturing jobs have left the country. Automated, or not, right?
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The town in PA I used to live between 2000 and 2001 had the actual working shirts/socks factory and I lived in the apartment complex where I met some of the guys working there.
When we moved to VA, we happen to talk to them on the phone every once in a while, and the factory was still working up to something in 2005-2006 when it finally went kaboom.
Nowadays, I’ve seen the numbers of something like 40% of shirts/socks to come from China only, not counting other countries.
My point here would be that USA was not that far off on the cost of goods when logistics were taken into account, but hunting for more and more price-down-squeeze took its toll here.
Ah - NO. Most automated jobs are here in the US. The workers are just replaced with machines.
I don’t disagree that many jobs are going overseas. It’s definitely a problem. But offshoring manufacturing jobs is outpaced by automation.
Great. Where was your shirt made again?
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Probably in China…HOWEVER…Textile is NOT considered manufacturing. It’s called TEXTILE. Complete different job category.
Oh fer Pete’s sake. Do they “textile” shirts or manufacture them. Semantics.
What about shoes? Purses? Toys? You get the idea.
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Not it’s NOT semantics. These are very well defined industry jobs. Sorry if you don’t like it. But that’s how the US (and the rest of the world) has been defining them for over a century.
Oh, okay. 
One estimate I saw is 6 million job openings and 5 million job seekers yielding a surplus of 1 million jobs untaken. Surely some over $15 an hour there. But back to cars.