It's not a question of blaming trade deals OR blaming automation.

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22. People don't want "certain jobs".

They want good pay, good benefits, and security.

Factory jobs aren't "good jobs" because they are fun. In fact they are mind numbing I'm told by every one I know who has ever worked in a factory. (I've done mind numbing retail, which did not come with health care, a pension, or a high wage, so I'm not above mind numbing work.).

However, manufacturing jobs have also been traditionally popular, coveted jobs because they paid well and allowed people to rise into the middle class without going to college and in some cases without even graduating high school.

Everyone deserves a good job with good pay and benefits and a secure income, regardless of his or her education. Education does not define someone's worth as a human being or right to a decent life.

We don't need the 1950s back, nor are "factory jobs" a cure all.

We need the ability to make a good life by working hard. That's been killed by Wal-Mart, Uber, Amazon, off-shoring, greed, right-to-work laws, union-busting, and the like.