100% corporate. 100%. All of the advisors to the admin on upcoming trade deals.

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65. Service jobs are not interchangeable. Plumbers, mechanics, lawyers, engineers. There are so many

types of service jobs that to say "service jobs are "interchangeable" is ridiculous. I worked some manufacturing jobs when I was younger and nothing I did could not have been done by anyone else either. I was quite 'interchangeable' but that does not mean that manufacturing jobs are all interchangeable. If you have a study comparing the interchangeability of manufacturing vs. service jobs I would love to see it. If this is just your "common knowledge" that is another thing.

All developed economies are becoming service economies in terms of employment, even while manufacturing output continues to grow. All of the other countries on the chart below are more progressive than the US so their middle class remains strong even they, too, are becoming 'service economies'.



You can't by force of will recreate a manufacturing-based economy any more that you could have recreated an agriculture-based economy a hundred years ago. You can create a progressive society based on tax, union, regulation and safety net policies that recreates a strong middle class. It has been done in many countries. We do not have to reinvent the wheel or focus on fixing something (trade policy) that progressive countries embrace.