Manufacturing job growth?

[Abogle]

http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=13857

Gotta love the spin in this article. They make it sound like there are more manufacturing jobs.

The fact of the matter is that the total number of available mfg jobs continues to decline as more plants continue to close or go offshore, and more workers become available to fill the available postions.

So in reality, that yes the number of open positions has declined due to the reasons stated above, but there has not been and manufacturing employment growth

This is yet another symptom of manufacturings long decline

[racingguy]

I believe yet another American icon has closed it's American plant and moved to Mexico. Hoover vacuum cleaner. For over 100 years they were busy in Ohio. Now, they will be busy in Mexico. Along with Rheem water heaters and a host of American auto maker plants. No wonder the Washington Lobbyists are so busy getting the Mexican truck drivers able to drive in the USA.
The plan was for high tech, high paying jobs to stay here while these "other' jobs were lost to over sea enterprises. Then it was to make new plants in new markets. The next buzz phrase will be you have to have a certain percentage of content in that country to be allowed to sell in that country.
So how long will it be before the USA will HAVE to do the same thing just to keep any manufacturing within the USA?
It seems very odd to me that so many other Nations have no problem protecting their manufacturing base while our government sits by and watches the jobs go over seas.
Our expertise and wealth building ability are being farmed out as fast as corporate American can ship it. Soon, all we will have are warehouses to unload container trucks. That and only niche manufacturing to support China and India!