19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Make You Weep

[Curmudgeoness]

5. I have been saying this for 30 years.

It was in the early 80's that so many steel mills and other plants shut down. At that time, I was saying that we were going in the wrong direction. I remember hearing that we were moving away from the "dirty, polluting work" and going toward a higher standard of living with a "service industry". WTF. Oh, they meant moving toward the brainier professions---we would be the consultants of the world....exporting information and theories, I suppose. How is that working out for us.

And now, with few plants available and functioning, we would be in a compromised situation if we were to have to fight a war of defense. I never have understood this, and I wasn't even thinking about trade imbalances.