I want to emphasize that outsourcing to China really played a large role in this. Even if each one of these hubs starts the new Facebook, that will only generate about 17,000 jobs (the amount of people Facebook currently employs) plus of course related industries, but still those jobs are likely to be dispersed across the United States.

Manufacturing has to come back. First it’s good for America for jobs and all that, but there is also a wartime necessity to it. During WWII we produced 70 planes a day. Today I think it would be hard to hit 4 or 5.

Reading about layoffs in the 80s and 90s is awful. I was born in 1990, so I never lived through it really, but it’s like reading about WWI battles. 10,000 there, 2,000 here, 4,000 over there. CEOs demand tax cuts from cities, which they get, and then they still layoff another 7,000. Tech will never ever ever make up for that in any kind of meaningful way. I say this as a Data Center Engineer too.