The fundamental error that most American's make in a blithe discussion of outsourced manufacturing and that our prized politicians
pretend to make, is the misconception that 'Bringing Consumer Product Manufacturing' back to America is simply a matter of signing a few papers into law. Or humble statements like Apple, please bring your manufacturing back to the USA.
We voluntarily pushed mass production out of the country because our capitalist economy made it impossible for companies to profit egregiously in the face of higher standards of worker living, retirement benefits and unionization here.
You want to bring Manufacturing back to America? Here's what we need to do:
1) Depreciate the cost of living to about 1/2 what it is in 2012
2) Eliminate public stocks and Nationalize key industries
3) Become a socialist nation versus the Capitalist Oligarchy that we are.
I fabricate some in Asia myself and let me tell you, doing so in the US would be 10 times the cost!
So please, let's loose the stuff about repatriating our manufacturing.
What we do need to do is stop Asia from cloning our innovations.