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But we must measure what we PRODUCE with what came inside those now empty containers. I know, I know, they actually contain our factory jobs & hi-tech jobs & we are all going to die-but then maybe we are not. Open question. Just ask Willie Green & assoc.
I 'used' to be a factory rep in furniture-covered 5 states, had over 500 active customers at retail & shipped way over a million $ annual. The entire industry went overseas ( at least 80% anyway ). Too bad-now I got a real job, net almost as much money ( inflation adjusted ) with similiar tax bennies from IRS. Wind the tax burden back about 15 years & let me keep perhaps 75% of what I earn & I would shut up. In today's economy, most folks 'used' to be something else.

One of my oldest son's best friends got out of school with IT degree, worked at & lost about 5 jobs at brokerage houses maintaining their nets-now he is teaching high skrool to skulls full of mush. I am sorry but glad-he is swell young man & we do NEED decent peoplew in the pits known as government schools. What can I say?

U.S. May Add Jobs as Manufacturing Expands: Economy Preview
Bloomberg ^ | 11/30/03 | Bloomberg
Posted on 11/30/2003 4:07 PM PST by Pikamax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031243/posts

My real complaint
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1030336/posts
This Transfer of Poverty

As capitalists we all have the responsibility to invest. The Fed says borrow and spend, but we must invest. The market says speculate, but we must invest. The politicians take your money to buy pills for wealthy seniors, but still we must invest. Many public schools do not much more than babysit, so we must invest in our own and our children's educations. Lack of investment is punishable by economic failure, traditionally death, but more recently the public dole. Once the Chinese stop the dole, our nation's lack of investment and the sum total of our failures to invest will result in the end of our current standard of living at the least, and the death of our nation in the worst case.