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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
How will Kerry create new manufacturing jobs while also inacting new enviromental regulations? Does he admit the two might be conflicting at some point?
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The better question is why is there such a need to create new manufacturing jobs? If the work can be done elsewhere better and cheaper, why shouldn't it be? How is "creating" new manufacturing jobs (which can only be achieved through protectionist incentives - a wonderful idea, since the world community is so in love with us already...) any different than the GOP's subsidizing farmers to buy their votes? The Dems scream about how Bush subsidizes farmers, yet they seem to want to do the same thing for manufacturing workers.
Manufacturing jobs will not come back until the cost of foreign labor makes domestic labor economically attractive. Kerry might try to speed up that reality via legislation, but I doubt he'll have much short term success (whatever protective legislation is passed will be swiss-cheesed with loopholes). That leaves a question that I can't answer... What happens to people who are solely skilled for manufacturing-level jobs during the years while all the labor is offshore? Do they get absorbed by the service industries?
