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To: Vince Ferrer

That was the wrong question to ask, “How can we get Apple to produce their products in the States.”

The right question is, “How do we create the right conditions, so that companies want to create jobs in the States.”

You might lose Apple, even with the best circumstances, but you might gain 5,000 other companies and start-ups as a consequence of having the best environment to helping companies succeed.


20 posted on 01/22/2012 5:11:51 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Jonty30

I found the most frightening thing in the article to be that no one can just wave a magic wand and “bring manufacturing back”, because there is no infrastructure and no supply chain here for manufacturing anymore; there also no reasonably educated working class willing (or even competent) to get its hands dirty here. The only things that are “protected” in the US are things of too low of a value per pound to be shipped, plain and simple.

The end result is that there will be less wealth for the US in the future, and no politician or party of politicians can fix this in four years. A statesman could put the wheels in motion to repair the damage in a generation or two, but we don’t have any statesmen anymore, either.


25 posted on 01/22/2012 5:38:40 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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