Although according to one survey, we are still the biggest manufacturing country in the world, but our share of manufacturing as compared to services is going down as more and more manufacturing jobs are being moved overseas in search of low cost. Are we just going to be a country of services or should we be investing more in our manufacturing base. Although we assume that everybody will go to college one day and we be a nation of college graduates, but no matter how hard we try there will still be some people who would rather work with their hands (and we do need them). For those kind of people they are worth more to us as mechanics, engineers, auto repair and manufacturers than college graduate. And what they learn on the job doing things is more than the four years of college.
Don’t get me wrong, I love college (that is why I am going for my third degree) but somewhere along the years, some of the kids will opt for manufacturing and hands on work and for these kind of people we need manufacturing, we will need a diverse variety of labor force, maybe not a majority of workers will be in manufacturing but enough so that we remain competitive with the outside world and keep this great country of ours a hub for Manufacturing. And the more manufacturing there is, the more there will be Military might. As countries which are strong in manufacturing are strong overall militarily.
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