tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post8714233065393050863..comments2023-10-05T08:44:09.303-07:00Comments on JG, Caesarea: David Brooks, "The Democratic Tea Party": Brooks Writes-Off US ManufacturingJeffrey Grossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847518948270295312noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-83683302992989672272015-06-17T06:36:47.471-07:002015-06-17T06:36:47.471-07:00"some workers" ?? does that include the..."some workers" ?? does that include the one million USA manufacturing jobs that migrated to Canada after NAFTA by 2002, because Canada's unit labor cost does not include medical insurance?<br /><br />The real issue is that no one should trust Obama with fast-track authority on anything. <br /><br />Mr. Brooks is still captive to that post-industrial service economy idea that caused Mayor Bloomberg to cancel vocational education in high schools, because, after all, everyone should become lawyers who needs no auto mechanics, or plumbers, or even to deploy city workers to repair the sewer lines before causing a deadly gas explosion.<br /><br />Mr. Brooks fails to notice how many German and Japanese manufacturers have factories in [red state]the USA, where labor and energy costs make sense.<br /><br />Mr. Brooks needs a vacation in the BMW complex in Spartanburg, South Carolina to understand why manufacturing matters.<br /><br /><br />kAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com