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So you're saying that it's better for 500 people to lose their jobs to a machine permanently so 2 or 3 people can maintain them than for jobs to go overseas until the natural long run equilibium of economics comes into effect and those jobs come back to the US? I'm sorry to laugh but that's kinda funny....

Yes I am ... as that's the way its been done in the US for over a century. You loose your switchboard job, you move into network management. You loose your job turning a wrench on a factory line, you start using the new tool.

The jobs that are going overseas aren't coming back. I know someone's going to bring up foreign car plants starting up in the US but a) that's the only one I can think of that has come back and b) how much tax money was given to the plants to setup shop here?

So you're telling me that if a group of switchboard operators lose their jobs, they're going to hire every single one back as a network administrator? What would be the point of spending the extra money on the labor saving machines? And those jobs could come back....it just might take a while. Finally, they aren't given money to come, they're given tax breaks that lower their costs and the consumers'.

The foreign car plants located in the USA were due to the protectionist quotas that Reagan implemented. So it is not a true example of 'jobs coming back' that the Free Traitors would have us believe.