Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

I'm no expert, but I have to wonder what our economy is going to be
in 10 or 30 years as we lose manufacturing base but add casinos and
the low pay service wages they pay.

The largest business in the US is a business that doesn't manufacture
anything (Wal-Mart). Our country is moving out of the manufacturing and
merchantile era into the information age.

I'm sure there were people, just like you, who lamented the rise of cities
and manufacturing while the agrarian and feudal society languished. There
are parts of the world that haven't even made it to the agricultural phase
yet.

We don't need to manufacture our own shirts or mine our own Bauxite to make
aluminium - not if we can get these things cheaper elsewhere. Adam Smith
settled this hash once and for all in the late 18th century.

People really need to keep up.