answer:It doesn’t influence me much. I don’t see why it’s not beneficial to the USA to at least attempt to have a robust manufacturing sector though. The problem is there are few areas where U.S. manufacturing has a competitive advantage. It may well be true that Americans can build a better TV or car than Korea, but Korea can build almost the same thing with a significantly smaller labor price. Even that wouldn’t be a very big deal, but Korean workers probably have a better quantitative background than their American counterparts. This means there are areas where U.S. manufacturing works, but they tend to be emergent or highly specialized. And even that follows a cyclical; who would have believed microprocessor manufacturing could be so easily off-shored even 15 years ago? Emergent technology matures, and eventually imitators crop up and undercut the originator of the technology.