We must repeal NAFTA!

We’re exporting all of our jobs overseas.

NAFTA opponents point to the 2.4 million U.S. manufacturing jobs that have disappeared since NAFTA took effect in 1994, a drop of about 14%. In Ohio, site of Tuesday’s hotly contested primary, manufacturing jobs are down by nearly 200,000, or 20%, during the same time.

This graph…by none other than the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve clearly shows that Manufacturing Output in the United States is declining since the implementation of NAFTA.

We clearly must. (!!!!)

hmmmm. That graph is not so clear. It’s too small too. Let me enlarge it, Whatzamatter with the graph?

Oops. It’s flipped. Let me flip it back over where it’s supposed to be.

There,now as I was saying , We MUST repeal–(?)

Now that can’t be right. The chart says that US manufacturing Production has INCREASED?

manufacturing output since 1970 has roughly tripled. TRIPLED. I feel like writing the word again but I’ll refrain. But “TRIPLED” is a good word to remember when you keep hearing that America’s manufacturing sector is being hollowed out and we don’t make anything anymore and soon we’re going to be sitting around doing each other’s laundry.

I wonder if that’s because American’s aren’t dummies. They tend to do things in a more productive manner over time. If it takes less people to get a job done, then the number of “jobs” declines.

The reason manufacturing has become a smaller proportion of GDP is because other sectors have grown even more. The reason other sectors have grown even more is because we have such high productivity in manufacturing over the last 40 years. That’s freed up people and resources to make other stuff.

Hmmmmm…I guess I need to change my rant.

WE MUST DECREASE EFFICIENCY ! Millions of Americans are losing their jobs because we are learning how to do things Better. It doesn’t MATTER that Median household income increased 41 percent from 1970 to 2006,We must go back to the old ways! It doesn’t MATTER that the typical house is 50 percent larger and nearly twice as expensive now as it was in the mid-1980s We must get sloppier and wasteful like we were in the past. When more people were poor, when more people were starving, when more people were…

Nope. That’s not gonna fly.

Well never mind then (sniff).

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