[simonblack]

It's more than factories that are missing today in the US. It's the millions of workers that have the skill-sets to work those factories.

In the 40 years that the US has offshored manufacturing, all of those guys that used to know what's what have retired or died. There's nobody left. It's going to take another 30-40 years to replace them. The US doesn't have the luxury of having those 30-40 years.

[tacocataco]

The market has spoken, US labor is to expensive, until the quality of life here normalizes into the old normal of landed lords and peasants.

Almost there.