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Maveric,

Where have you been? We were supposed to do that before they shipped all the manufacturing lines overseas! Now that all that stuff is being made everywhere else we have to reinvent manufacturing here! And that means that robots are going to have to take all of the manufacturing jobs, so we are no better off in that job market.

According to the experts, all we have to do is design a whole bunch of products that haven't yet been copied or invented so that we can make new high tech production lines. And those products have to be designed for high speed automated production lines. Then we have to hire a bunch of high tech people to put raw materials into the feed hoppers. And finally, we need a bunch of service people to deliver all of those products. No more hand made products in the good old USA. No need for crafts either. If we can't do it really fast with automation, then we can't compete. That is the message I am getting.

Oh, oh, I almost forgot. We have to create a market for those new products too! See how easy it is to fix our economy? Now, what new products do you have?

Here is a little quote for reflection: Automate, Innovate, or Evaporate!

I don't know about you but I'm beginning to think there is more than water in these clouds overhead.

Yes robots (mechanical) are taking over look at Japan and they use AI. Talk to a professional broker as far as the economy and you will be surprised what is going on as I type this reply to you. What new products I have designed? I will try not to brag I have designed Cardiac Pacemakers ASICs and Cardiology therapy and they are selling at this time Worldwide St. Jude Medical 3rd largest medical company in the world and funny most of those pacemakers I worked on are American made in the USA!

My post was a comment and that is all based on facts not really a comment LOL.

P.S. Did you know Nike went to Asia but good old Texas boots too many brands to name are USA. But I can not think of too many other products manufactured here most are less expensive to make in other countries I will not name them so not to get offensive which is not my goal.

Bravo! It would be very reassuring to see a lot of new (and useful) products appear on the various markets. I am very concerned that the USA has a large labor pool that is not ready to advance to high tech jobs. And we need those products to be exportable to offset the imports for our tennis shoes, cloths, and many of the other common products that we no longer make.

I hope your next product has as much to offer toward the welfare of the general public. I'm not sure how they will be able to purchase some of these future products, but time will tell. Robots and other types of automation is in everyone's future. The only thing that seems to keep some products (excluding Texas boots) is the cost of transporting foreign made products back to US markets.

But if the next private sector area of growth is energy, the transportation problem may cause other transfers of manufacturing. Maybe the future area of growth will finally be low earth orbit "space based" development. But I don't see as much need for blue collar jobs in the future. So some major re-thinking is in order for what to do with all of these workers. And the solutions are likely to be expensive.

I'm not sure everyone understands how manufacturing was so important to the US. Any time you can convert raw materials into finished goods that can be sold, wealth is created (from labor and to a lesser extent from materials). Why we let so much manufacturing out of the country I will never understand. I know that making profits for certain people was the driving force, but it was far too easy. Re-building an automated manufacturing base will take a very long time - even if we try to compete with some of the existing products made overseas.

Innovation seems to be rapidly becoming our only resort. I've already had more than one boss who wanted to know when I was going to have and develop my next invention so he could put it on a time line. All I can say is that ignorance must be bliss. There is no other explanation.