[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by Ladogaboy

Japanese auto manufacturers actually "make" more cars in the United States than "American" auto manufacturers.

Which makes them American made, no? Which supports my point that it's the American management mindset that's a big part of the problem.

Americans aren't buying American goods, and they aren't pressing stores to carry American-made goods.

Why should they? When I buy a product, I care about price/quality (that is, am I getting value for money?), not where it was made.

We complain about no jobs and no work, but as a country, we don't actually do anything ourselves.

Don't know who you're calling we, there. From where I stand, it looks as though most of the jobs "lost" to foreign countries would, in the absence of those countries, have been lost to industrial robots. The people who're complaining about job loss out of one side of their mouths will then go and complain about the poor working conditions out of the other, when those conditions are mostly inherent in the job.

And then the US imports tens of thousands of PhD-level research scientists & engineers, because too few Americans are motivated to become educated in those fields.