This slideshow outlines why our economy will never fully recover...

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3. I hate to disagree

But that slideshow doesn't really show what you claim. The vast majority of the "largest" industries in a state are less than 10% of GDP, often less than 5%. That means the other 95% of the GDP is something else.

Honestly, it doesn't show much at all for most states. You'd need to see a much broader range of where their GDP comes from in order to understand what is going on. I'm not disputing that there has been a huge loss in manufacturing jobs. But sadly, much of the shift has been as much to the "service" industry as to medical and banking. The 80% area being employed "serving" the 20%.