What happens when the USA no longer makes anything?

[TRBON8R]

It seems like people keep losing their jobs in this bad economy, and so many companies are exporting jobs either out of necessity or greed. Manufacturing jobs seem to be suffering the most. So many folks, myself included now work in the service industry. I'm fortunate and make a good living, but in order for the service industry to thrive there have to be people with good paying jobs and disposable incomes. What is going to happen to us when we keep losing manufacturing jobs here in the USA and reach a point where we hardly make anything in this country? Common sense would dictate that any country has to dedicate a portion of its labor force to production work. We can't all be sitting behind a computer somewhere shuffling paperwork. Anyway, don't mind me, I'm just venting here.

 

[turbofrank]

it's simple no jobs

 

[salvageV6]

Yup, Ross Perot called that one from a mile away.

Funny how his little 50cent gas tax could have cured a lot of problems and kept the jobs in the US.

Good ole NAFTA.

 

[Nashty]

The economy is impassionate and could care less about anything but supply and demand. Everyone feels it and the survivors will be those who can adapt and compete with the low price competition.

With that said, the only thing we as consumers can do about it are BUY AMERICAN. Don't buy Chinese sh!t. Don't buy all your crap from Wal-Mart, support your local communities. Participate in Junior Achievement to inspire the little ones in your community to get into business and keep this company alive.

Believe it or not, there are many jobs leaving Mexico to go to Indonesia and China.

 

[lyonsd]

Here's an interesting article on this very subject:

http://whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE2/doodoo.html

 

[GeneralB44]

Post-industrial economics are pretty scary, but we are probably a very rich nation because of it! There are still plenty of neighborhoods where people will work in factories for minimum wage... just not in the USA anymore. We're too civilized now to compete in the manufacturing hard labor with these poor countries around the world. We're actually very lucky to take advantage of these industrious nations in the global economies instead of having to compete against them.

 

[salvageV6]

I doubt we'd be "competing" with anything more than mud and sand if they actually had to build and develop their own factories.