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Once the workforce went global, the US was doomed.
We need to manufacturer more? Manufacture more of what? Even if you come up with a great new product, it will be cheaper to manufacture it elsewhere anyway.
And to say that the US worker makes too much to compete globally seems to have come down to 2 choices - 1) don't work or 2) work for much less.
The answer seems to be, in order to compete nowadays, the US is supposed to drop down to 3rd world nation standards - low wages, no unions, no bargaining rights, longer hours, less benefits, less environmental protections, etc.
If Steve Jobs amassed $30 billion dollars selling shit that was made for pennies in China, and he didn't want to hire more Americans, is he really a success story, or just a leach?
Same question can be asked of most of today's most successful CEOs.
I've said it time and again: I would rater be a Prince in a rich nation, than a King in a land of squaller.
China has been working on long-term energy solutions, like what Jimmy Carter was trying to do, but the corporate greed here has stifled progress (especially big oil), and now we are paying the price.
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