Outsourcing is inevitable.
But--unless I'm missing something--our country was much MUCH better off when manufacturing provided a more reliable backbone to our national economy.
Again, I could be wrong, but from what I hear, from what I see, manufacturing jobs (which paid pretty, pretty nice) have left in boatloads (technology is to "blame" for a lot of that too, I acknowledge), and since they've left the American standard for living has plummeted.
So, assuming I'm not wrong (that we've lost manufacturing jobs en masse, and that the workforce vacuum has sucked quality of life right down with it), and if outsourcing is partly to blame, but unavoidable, where/how do we re-generate those manufacturing jobs, or the equivalent (in pay and stability), and how do we do so as quickly as they're disappearing?