[Sonart]

Oh, good grief...

Back in the 60's the U.S. was a manufacturing powerhouse, the world's industrial giant. Detroit ruled. Industrial labor ruled. 20 years later, Japan, Korea, Germany and other post-war nations began taking over manufacturing and taking our manufacturing jobs. OH, MY GOSH, THEY LIED TO US!!

Jeez, Osborn, get a clue. Both things are true.

Twenty years ago, with new, lower cost industrial competition, we began leading the world into the information and technology era, so we were losing manufacturing jobs to low-cost competition but gaining technical jobs, so Osborn's point A is true.

Twenty years later, even lower cost developing countries -- read; China, etc. -- are taking manufacturing jobs away from the countries that took it away from us, while other low-cost modernizing nations are creating hi-tech jobs, so Osborn's point B is also true.

No one lied to us. You guys just want to invent an issue to attack whoever you're implying put out "the big story". The world simply changes, duh.

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