There is a fine bedtime story about manufacturing in America we cannot stop telling. It is a simple, plain story: making things is good, and we should make more things. Manufacturing jobs left, and we want them back. The story is so simple that great masses of the American people believe it without question. 80 percent of Americans polled by the Cato Institute1 agree that "America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing." But when asked if they themselves would be better off working in a factory, only 25 percent agree. The remaining 73 percent would rather not, please and thank you very much.
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