start to see what the demand is for our aircraft, we re going to need so much more as we move forward. listen, ray, thank you for hosting us here and thank you for educating us. thank you. good to see you. ray conout at boeing. the decline in manufacturing is reflected in the changing demographic of the american workers, as we were just discussing. less than 9% of americans now work in manufacturing, a decline of 8.1 million during the last three decades. manufacturing now in fact represents just 11% of our gdp, down from nearly a third in the years following world war ii. so the question going forward for all of us is, can our economy function properly without these jobs? is this not the guts of the american job market? with 30 million americans unemployed or underemployed,
realize that if production is separated from innovation, that we re not going to be inventing the next great thing necessarily, the more people will come to manufacturing. i think we can overcome that. the china currency vote is the perfect example. i think a lot of new members of congress influenced by the tear party uchbds that manufacturing in america goes hand in hand, and i think they can stand up to the interests. i know a lot of democrats are prepared to do it. i think we have a solid working majority to pass a pro-manufacturing agenda if we can break those shackles. heck, let s just be pro-fairness. the very foundation of this country and the ideas of this country going back to our trip to seneca falls and the rest of it is let s just have a level playing field, as our president from boeing was saying. an absolute pleasure, scott. thank you for the time. thank you. we ll take a moment tear break. up next we ll turn our attention to some of the day s headlines,
is that a fair assessment? i think that s fair. when we moved it out, we did not use as much oversight. we did bring back some of the work. we purchased the facility in south carolina, the global area naughtic facility there, a joint venture there. so we brought things back into the boeing fold and we re moving forward. one of the really big issues is do you have the engineers? do you have the young people as so many of the boeing employees and so many of the manufacturing workers in general are baby boomers. we sat with david gearing, he gave a characterization of how desperate the need for new talent is. i want you to take a listen and respond. we need 1500 airframe mechanic every year, but our state only turns out 150. we re failing in 90% of the cases. why are there so few relative to the demand?
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and efficiency and innovation the name of the game for more than 100 years, an industrial neighbor that is incredibly efficient and as a result welcomed in this town. companies like nucor and boeing a couple success stories here in the seattle and the northwest, but they too are operating in an increasely hostile manufacturing sector, with rigged trade particularly between china and the united states. 5.5 million jobs outsourced, tens of thousands of plants shut down, nearly 100,000 facing a similar fate, as we debate shared sacrifice with public sector cuts in states like wisconsin, what seems to be lost in the debate is how we re going to bring good jobs back to america. can companies like nucor and boeing overcome the incredible obstacles of that rigged trade, tariffs ten times higher importing to china then coming