Absolutely retarded comment. We don't want those jobs. The employment rate is fine. Stagnant wages are the problem, and manufacturing pays poorly because it's low-skill work. Yet minimum wage labor being that the minimum wage isn't measured in pennies would still drive up the cost of all manufactured goods so that our low earners would essentially be making even less. Also cheap third-world labor is the only thing keeping those jobs from automation in the first place. Everything about your take on this subject is off so you should stop speaking from outside your knowledge base. I don't know what it is about the internet that makes every idiot think they've got something meaningful to contribute to every conversation.