That's not really correct tho. Here's a handy graph showing the United States manufacturing output as percentage of overall GDP versus percentage of workforce e

That's not really correct tho. Here's a handy graph showing the United States manufacturing output as percentage of overall GDP versus percentage of workforce employed in manufacturing: http://yelnick.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c563953ef01310fc3f3ee970c-500wi http://yelnick.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c563953ef01310fc3f3ee... You'll notice that the output, as a percentage of the overall economy, has remained relatively flat. Jobs, on the other hand, have taken an absolute nose-dive. What's really happened is that factories in the U.S. have become crazily efficient. Through both technology and significant process improvements. So we have quite a problem. It's not enough to just make stuff, we need to make it way less efficiently if we're going to solve the blue-collar unemployment problem. I have no idea how we're going to do it.