Originally Posted by ruff

It's not the politicians that shipped jobs overseas, it is the corporations and those jobs are never coming back to this country. If a company that used to pay an American $30 an hour to manufacture something can now open a factory in Mexico or China and pay that worker $1 dollar an hour, what makes you think they will come back here? No amount of tariffs or penalties will be enough to offset that difference. So that is never going to happen. What people do not understand or do not want to understand is the US is morphing into a service economy. The future is service not manufacturing. Adapt or die. What do you think is going to happen when we have driver-less cars? No more delivery men, Uber drivers, taxi drivers. Robotics has slowly been replacing workers in manufacturing for years and more robots are coming. Education is the key here. The Germans, Koreans, Chinese and others are way ahead of us in education, without improving our education system, they will be the ones we will be servicing. An isolationist policy will only hurt us and strengthen other countries. Get rid of free trade? To what advantage? The world is changing and if you think this current administration is going to bring jobs back to America, don't hold your breath. That's just tRump, it is not the Republican way.