Total strawman argument. Nobody is suggesting bringing back turn-of-the-century industries. When people talk of keeping jobs, they are talking about high tech manufacturing jobs.<p>When a company is deciding where to build it's next manufacturing factory, something many companies are doing, why not have policies in place that incent the company to build it domestically? This type of policy is prevalent in virtually every country across the globe (especially in China).<p>The argument that "some jobs are being automated, therefore we should make no effort to keep the jobs that are not being automated" is a ridiculous and nonsensical argument.<p>Furthermore, every manufacturing job (whether high tech or low skilled) adds all kinds of downstream benefits to the economy that add up to much more than just one job.<p>And finally, the author demonstrates a complete ignorance of the criticisms of the H1B program and cherry picks the highest salaried H1B workers in order to hold them up as some kind of example as to why there should be no reform, I guess?<p>Sure, we should be better training people to match the realities of the modern labor market, but that's the only point that makes sense - and it's an obvious one.<p>Oh, and by the way, those Apple profits? None of them actually go back to the U.S., they sit in foreign, tax exempt, bank accounts.