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In reply to the discussion: FiveThirtyEight: Manufacturing Jobs Are NEVER Coming Back. [View all]seabeckind
(1,957 posts)Oh yeah, Wall Street Journal and business journals in articles justifying outsourcing and offshoring.
Saying that reopening a factory because it would only create 500 jobs is a bad idea is ridiculous.
It's 500 jobs. Not to mention all the support requirements for that factory and those 500 jobs.
People are needed to rebuild and retool those factories. Those are jobs.
People are needed to move the materials to and from the factories. Those are jobs.
Transportation facilities to and from those factories are jobs.
Educating the workforce to deal with modern manufacturing are jobs.
"Ben Casselman is FiveThirtyEights chief economics writer."
Based on his bio (previous reporter for the WSJ) I don't think Ben knows what all those thingies are under the hood of his car do and where they all come from. Not to mention the appliances in his house.
Economics my a...