> now the manufacturing industry in the US is so bad Isn't this pretty soundly debunked at this point? Honest question because I hear alternately "US manufactu

> now the manufacturing industry in the US is so bad Isn't this pretty soundly debunked at this point? Honest question because I hear alternately "US manufacturing is dead" and "US manufactures more crap than anyone else except China, barely". I get the sense that saying the US manufacturing industry is dead because it doesn't employ many people, is the same as saying the US agriculture industry is dead for the same reason, and also wrong for the same reason (i.e. number of people employed is a weak metric for the strength of an industry).