What is wrong with you? seriously. Let me take you by the hand and lead you up the thread. You said that "we have to make things again". I proved to you that our ability to make things is at an all time high thus showing that your statement is wrong. See how simple that is? That is the only reason I'm in this thread, to counter your wrong statement. I'm done explaining this to you.
And I explained in detail what I meant. You're simply either too ignorant to understand or you simply do not want to understand. Not sure about 5,000,000 manufacturing jobs lost that you don't understand.
You wouldn't even acknowledge the last paragraph in your own posted article which is exactly what I was referring to.
My only guess is that you don't care about the middle class or upward mobility. The middle class median income is lower today than in 1999.