Opportunity: Graduating from college in 1960’s with a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering!
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More Opportunity: Graduating from college in 1970’s with a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering!
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Less Opportunity: The 1990’s downsizing and off-shore outsourcing of high-tech products and manufacturing.
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Minimal Opportunity: The devastation of the “Rust Belt” and massive loss of manufacturing jobs and US made products:
The new economy: You sell me insurance – I sell you stocks & bonds.
We don't want to manufacture anything here because it's demeaning, polluting, requires 'real-work' and causes global warming'.
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The Trump Tariffs Must Succeed
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-trump-tariffs-must-succeed.html
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How the U.S. Lost Its Place as the World’s Manufacturing Powerhouse - WSJ
In the 1950s, around 35% of private-sector jobs in the U.S. were in manufacturing. Today, there are 12.8 million manufacturing jobs in the U.S., an amount equal to 9.4% of those private-sector jobs.
President Trump says his sweeping tariff regime is aimed at bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
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Aggravating the US economic-manufacturing challenges are the massive movement to US-Socialism and Open-Borders, over-regulation, over-taxation, AntiBusiness environment and the abandonment of the Working Class by the ‘new-elitist Democrat Party’.
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