For this we can thank those who've been telling us all these years (and are still telling us) that the government has no role to play in the economy while governments in Germany (for example) were crafting policies that could maintain a highly skilled workforce in high-end manufacturing and design. Emerging economic powerhouses are busy pumping resources into educating their populations despite the cries of "mercantilism!" from Addams Family thinktanks (weird, right?) while the American political elite have either actually drunk the anti-government Koolaid or are employed by the corporations that are divesting in America. You got played, bitches.