Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
Read Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, then you'll see why the first statement is misguided, although well intended, and why it doesn't matter if all manufacturing left the US (and by the way it won't).
http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Fre...e=UTF8&s=books
<Politics and Religion> I haven't read the book, but to think the entire country is going to get skilled jobs is farfetched; and guiding the country to a situation where the only job available to high school graduates is flipping burgers seems to be a bad idea. </Politics and Religion>