It's also worth questioning the value of these 'jobs' without context. If technological progress has taught us anything, it's that the manufacturing jobs in qu

It's also worth questioning the value of these 'jobs' without context. If technological progress has taught us anything, it's that the manufacturing jobs in question are simply not going to exist for very long. So it's probably for the best to be forced into a design- and service-based economy, before automation obviates these jobs altogether. Forcing manufacturing back into the economy would be precisely the sort of ill-conceived, short-term, band-aid solution-that-makes-things-worse-in-the-end that's all too common in US political discourse and legislation.