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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (983859)	11/25/2016 2:12:49 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1583823

the decline in manufacturing employment in the US isn't because of outsourcing, but rather a decades-old feature of the industry. "The story of US manufacturing is basically one of high productivity growth allowing demand to be met with ever fewer workers," manufacturing sector hasn't added jobs to the labor market in years past. Instead, improved equipment and automation has allowed US manufacturers to increase output. Thus even if manufacturing came back to the US, most of the plants would be automated anyway, producing a lower number of jobs than one might hope for. The tweetstorm probably has something to do with Trump repeatedly promising throughout his campaign to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. Even on Thursday, Trump tweeted that he was working with Carrier, the air conditioner maker, to keep its plant in Indiana. fighting to keep these jobs rather than pivoting toward the service sector is backward thinking. "Nothing policy can do will bring back those lost jobs. The service sector is the future of work; but nobody wants to hear it," manufacturing employment peaked in 1979, before a significant number of the free trade agreements Trump blames for the decline.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (983859)	11/25/2016 2:21:42 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1583823

So if conservatives stay true to their principles and force Trump to govern from the extreme right, Trump may have a hard time delivering on the booming economy he promised ? albeit one that relies on artificial spending at the expense of more debt. Conservatives seem fine playing spoiler. They recognize that Trump’s brand of Republicanism is not the same kind of ideology that ushered most of their colleagues into Congress. These conservatives, who largely take the same anti-immigration stances as Trump’s base, see themselves as a middle ground between this new faction of the GOP that wants to preserve entitlements and large doses of spending and more traditional Republicans, like Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who are pro-trade and would like to see substantive changes to programs like Medicare and Social Security.