Guardian: The US 'manufacturing renaissance' doesn't exist, says new report

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2. We consider the parallel fact about agriculture a good thing

Who is we? What's good about the loss of family farms, the takeover by big ag, bankrupt families, destruction of rural communities, GMOs, Monsatan, and on and on?

As for manufacturing, what's good about lower priced imported consumer products on the backs of people so miserable that nets have to be strung for when they try to their deaths during their horrendous work shifts? What's good about the loss of the ability of one family member/one income being able to support the entire family? What's good about the loss of self sufficiency as a nation?

Things change, technology improves, farming methods improve, how people work is adjusted accordingly, but none that means a country has to destroy itself. Globalization is nothing but the East India Company model on steroids.