DONT TREAD
I hear your lament 2 to 3 times a day. I asked a Mexican about the jobs in his country and he amazed me with his reply. It seems that many of the jobs we were told went to Mexico really didn't. The Chinese have created more jobs in Mexico than we have. They have factories just to open boxes of Chinese goods and put an "Assembled in Mexico" sticker on them then rebox them in Mexican boxes and load them on Mexican and American Trucks to get them into the US duty free.
The jobs were supposedly sent them are only available to certain types of Mexicans. Thus the Cartels pay better and if they don't want to get put in Jail they jump the border and come up here to work. The guy told me that if he could get a job in Mexico he sure wouldn't have made the trip to NC in the winter.
Thus what has "REALLY" happened is that by regulations from EPA, FDA, and the rest of the alphabet agencies our jobs are now done by foreign companies in Foreign lands. Then the resultant goods are sent to Mexico where there is no Union, no regulations, and reboxed for transport to our shelves.
While we shouted patriotic songs to the skies our government dismantled out production and wrote regulations to make sure we can't restart them.
Then put us on the dole so they can decide who lives and who dies, who eats and who starves.
They did it because we were asleep at the stick.