Rex B wrote:Thanks for posting that. It's amazing how few people realize that we are still #1. We just don't make the inexpenive consumer goods, we make higher-end stuff mostly.
And we stopped making a lot of the cheap stuff DECADES ago. I remember as a kid in the '60s and '70s when all the cheap consumer goods and toys were made in Japan and Hong Kong, and my mom railed against the quality of imported clothing who didn't share the standards nor pay that she had when she worked in the local shirt factory as a young woman. My dad's mid-70s Chevy Caprice was made in Canada. I get a big chuckle from folks who think the moving of unskilled manufacturing jobs offshore is a recent process (or try to blame it on Obama).