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   MP>Honestly, though, I really don't agree with your premise.  I don't think it   
     >had anything to do with savng the *consumer* money... I think it had more   
     >to do with making more money for the corporations involved.  The fact that   
     >it saved the consumer money was a side-effect.   
      
   That's probably more common in recent years. I can't help but think   
   back 30 or more years and watching the price of something like a   
   Video Recorder or Microwave Oven drop from $600 to $100 because   
   they started making them in China. The (early) quality was crap but   
   people still bought them to save the money.   
      
   As you've suggested, the problem with bringing manufacturing back   
   to the USA is that the difference in what you pay your workers   
   compared to what people in China, India or Mexico make will greatly   
   increase the cost of those things UNLESS you go to much more   
   automated assembly plants which will lower the cost but won't   
   create the jobs that Trump keeps talking about.   
      
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