Other more valid reasons...
Let's face it. The only way we'll get our manufacturing sector back here in the U.S. is when it's profitable for manufacturers to bring it back.
More than any other reason, I think manufacturing jobs will return to the U.S. as the cost of energy increases. China may have us beat on cheap labor for the time being, but we have more energy resources than China, and because it takes energy to make and move the goods from there to here, and manufacturing and transportation energy costs will be lower for U.S. made goods, it will once again become profitable to make goods here in the U.S.
I'd like to think manufacturing jobs would return to the U.S. because Americans realize that goods made in China are crap, but I don't know that the American buyer is smart enough to look past the price of something, and U.S. retailers like Walmart and Lowes aren't going to give them the chance anyway.
I'd like to think that our politicians would pass legislation to spur the reopening of factories here, but we know we can't count on that from "Mitt the Outsourcer", and I don't really see too much more than lip service from our current president.
Every time the price goes up to fill up your gas tank, think of the silver lining - manufacturing jobs returning to our shores.
