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To: rwh
Oh, and if the factories that use that oil were still here instead of in China, Vietnam, and India, we'd be selling the oil here instead of "saving jobs" by selling it overseas while half of the working people in the US depend on Food-stamps and part time jobs.

I'm broken hearted over oil field people out of work, really. But I'm just as broken hearted over the people in other industries who are flipping burgers or not working at all rather than doing the job they trained for and worked at for years.

Why is saving oil industry jobs more important than everyone being in the same boat so maybe they can't be played off against one another with that BS about saving 1 job in one place while shipping 10 jobs elsewhere to some other country ?

Yeah, I hear ya', and I remember when someone chimed in years ago about how buying foreign steel saved jobs, and how buying foreign cars saved jobs, and how Walmart buying from China saved and created jobs, . . .

With all those jobs we saved with the same sort of profits first, US citizens last, why isn't the country in the middle of a huge, incredible, economic boom ?

24 posted on 01/27/2016 6:31:22 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin
Milton Friedman - Imports, Exports & Exchange Rates
100 posted on 01/29/2016 3:24:21 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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