Job loss can be a positive sign that the economy is growing

When the president speaks of closed factories scattered like “tombstones” across America, has he noticed the shuttered stores in shopping centers and entire malls reduced to rubble? He promises protection to prevent foreigners from destroying manufacturing jobs by exporting to America things that Americans want to import. Does he know that one American company might be destroying more American jobs than China is? And that this supposed destruction is beneficial? The company is Amazon , created by Jeff Bezos.