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by coob 4616 days ago
Obama has repeated publicly "there are some jobs that are not coming back"[1]

And I think he's right. Modern US production facilities have far more automation requiring fewer, more highly skilled jobs. Barely skilled assembly line jobs just aren't worth the labour costs in the US.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMdkzY-Eivg