Manufacturing causes pollution, low-skilled jobs and a heap of other problems. In America, we value our quality of life, environment, plants and animals over dirty, polluting, electricity draining, factories ran by corrupt corporate overlords that would use our children's blood to toil shackled to assembly lines if they could. That is why we are becoming a pure service economy with small, hometown farmers. Much better to work in a farmer's market selling locally grown produce than to work in a coal mine or a crowded assembly line breathing in deadly fumes.
All of the R&D will be conducted here (high-paying science and engineering jobs), then we hand the plans over to countries that waller in their own filth by expanding their manufacturing capabilities. Let them destroy their own scenic landscapes, deplete all of their natural resources and chop down all their trees.
The organic movement is really taking off, soon all of our communities will grow their own food, so there will be no need to have those big mechanized farms that produce poison rather than food. To heck with growing it that way to export, we should not even be sending that kind of food to starving children overseas.
With solar panels, wind, organic local farming, bicycles and all of the high-tech R&D jobs we could possibly ever want from companies Apple Computer, we will lead the world in quality of life. Who needs heavy industry or industrialized farming?
Once our society is corrected via wealth redistribution and social engineering methods on the part of our federal government, everyone will have an equal opportunity to become a scientist or engineer. If not for our society's failures, the minds of the next generation would have the same potential to do great things and become great scientists. Everyone is born with the same physical and mental potential, to think otherwise would lead us down a path of hate. We just lead them astray at an early age due to their exposure to nationalism, racism, sexism, tobacco, violence, profanity, pornography, religion or a host of other ills.