“I wish Santorum would ditch this ‘revive manufacturing’ nonsense.”
I think that’s a key part of Santorum’s electoral appeal. Jefferson wrote of the unique American Agrarian Ideal: “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God... etc”
There could also be an “industrial heart” of America that is a bit withered. I don’t want to get deep into how much economic sense it makes to incentivize manufacturing specifically, other that to say that it probably wouldn’t effect overall economics that much, and that there are natl security reasons for maintaining manufacturing proficiency, but the main thing is that it fits into the election meme that Santorum is on the side of the working man. So this will help your avg Joes, and Joe the Plumbers, rationalize, so to speak, votes for the republican, this time.
So I say all the more power to Santorum on this. And maybe it’s real. Maybe he really could revive manufacturing, and help the working man, and industrial (swing) states.
Agree.
Yes!
What you post is hand-waving commie bullsnot.
The reason you think subsidies help the working man is because you do not understand economics.
There are numerous Milton Friedman videos on YouTube.
I suggest you watch one or two of them someday and stop arguing for collectivism, comrade.
The coming manufacturing revolution is ALL robotic with very little labor.