[dasboot]

and job outsourcing is a political time bomb You're right, but there's nothing rightly political about it. HAND'S OFF!

Yep, there's a lot of gnashing about economic flux on this here site.....and it's heart-breaking. The only solutions offered are to limit freedom, force, require, compel, etc. Poison antidotes.

I thought the harness thing was original....looking at a 1903 city directory last year, I noticed every fifth 'head of household' was a harness-maker.

[JNB]

And they seamlessly went into the auto industry, they required almost no retraining for their skills, and the auto industry jobs were simpily down the street, literally. There was no job outsourcing 100 years ago, and people that use this flawed comparison time and again have no understanding of economics or history.

As for "freedom", the US had tariffs at high levels till the late 70s, so was the pre new deal America, much less the pre civil war America, anti freedom when it came to economics?

[sourcery]

The only solutions offered are to limit freedom, force, require, compel, etc. Poison antidotes.

I agree that limiting freedom is economic poison. But not all the bears and critics of current policy advocate such. I don't, for one. But I do expect that that's what will happen, whether we like it or not. In the end, we'll repeat all of Hoover's mistakes. We've already made a great start.