Americas male employment crisis is both urban and rural

[Red Oak]

4. The way to bring back jobs is to manage trade. Actively manage the trade balance between nations.

We've done it before over our history and we can, and should, do it again.

The reason we choose NOT to manage trade is that if you are the owner or executive management of a business you can make a shit load of money by offshoring with low or zero tariffs to get your product back into the USA. Who wouldn't want to pay peanuts to get a product built in China with no EPA regulations, no consumer protection agency, no healthcare costs, no major social security. It's a huge boon to business profits to screw the American worker. Hell, we even offer tax incentives to offshore!

This system works well (for the 1%) until the point is reached that so much money is drained from the customer base, due to un- and under-employment, that said 1%-ers can no longer sell much product to the poverty stricken customer base. Then the system collapses. Until the collapse though, it's party time!

If we manage trade, yes the prices at Walmart and other big box stores will go up. Yes, some jobs will lost to automation upon their return to the USA. However, there are still many, many millions (MILLIONS!) of jobs in China and Mexico that would flood back into the USA if we managed trade. Imagine all the products that were made in the USA that are now made in China, by people, not machines. Those jobs would be headed back home to help America if our politicians weren't so bought and paid for with campaign donations and the revolving door of Washington D.C.