Yet another reason that Hillary lost [View all]
The new jobs report out today continues the good economic news we have received since since President Obama turned the economy around and got it pointed in the right direction.
However, here is one part of the economy which did not do well over the last 8 years and that is manufacturing. Even the new job report shows a lost of 4K manufacturing jobs last month, and that is a continuation of a long trend.
Who can be blamed - no one really. With automation (primarily) and globalization (which would have happened with or with tariff agreements), a reduction of manufacturing jobs was and is inevitable. Well, that isn't really true - we are all to blame because we all want to pay as little as possible for the products we use.
Hillary's problem was that Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are three states where ther have been heavy losses in manufacturing jobs, yet the inaccurate polls led everyone to believe those states were in the bag.
The people those states don't want offers of retraining for those who lost their jobs (themselves, family members, neighbors, friends, etc). They want those jobs back because they paid very well, especially for people who have only high school educations or less less. However, it isn't going to happen. And it isn't going to happen precisely because those jobs can done by machines or elsewhere for a lot less money. There are people on those states who are angry because they know those jobs are gone forever.
Apparently there were just enough angry people in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, to throw them and the general election into the Trump win column.
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