You say trust the experts, but those same experts for 40 years said that if we shipped our manufacturing base off to China, we'd get cheaper goods. They lied about that. They Experts said shipping our industrial base to other countries would make the middle class stronger, but they were wrong. about that. They were wrong about the idea that if we made America less self reliant, less productive in our own nation, that it would somehow make us better off. (34:39–34:47)
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Asserts that experts were wrong about the benefits of moving the industrial base abroad.
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