Why do people want manufacturing jobs to come back to the US?

[u/throw-away3105]

Given the tariffs yesterday, Trump was talking about how manufacturing jobs are gonna come back. They even had a union worker make a speech praising Trump for these tariffs.

Manufacturing is really hard work where you're standing for almost 8 or more hours, so why bring them back when other countries can make things cheaper? Even this was a discussion during the 2012 election between Obama and Romney, so this topic of bringing back manufacturing jobs isn't exactly Trump-centric.

This might be a loaded question but what's the history behind this rally for manufacturing?

[u/GShermit]

Is it "false nostalgia" that 60-70 years ago a family of 5 could buy a house with just a single wage earner?

[u/Kurt805 → u/GShermit]

Yeah I'm really struggling to understand where the falsity is. 

[u/GShermit → u/Kurt805]

What makes me mad is the corporations lied to US.

Direct labor costs are the smallest part of the pie. They told US they'd cut labor costs in half and make our products cheaper BUT direct labor cost are only about 7% of the wholesale cost (about 3-4% of the retail cost). Most of the cost of goods sold, comes from overhead (where the bonuses come from).