PA-07: Pennsylvania GOP candidate says automating manufacturing jobs is 'where you want to go'

[uncle ray]

2. well, he's right.

to shun automation to save jobs will cost jobs. we need to encourage and incentivize manufacturers who automate to grow their facilities in this country to support the same workforce alongside automation. the jobs that are best suited for automation, no human would want to do anyway, tens of thousands of movements a day. we should have these manufacturers here, paying their fair share so that the people otherwise doing these harmful and dangerous tasks can be helped to find more interesting or creative work.

i recently quit my job as a Manufacturing Engineer, in charge of the automation program of a small manufacturing company, so i've been eyeball deep in this. we need some serious capital investment and jobs training in both automation, and the fundamentals of the industries we hope to automate. i've seen tons of opportunities lost to overseas competition because we could not implement automation quickly enough.