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"Conclusion?"

The conclusion is that “outsourcing” jobs to the South that could be done cheaper there did not damage the North’s economy (although I’m sure there were plenty of fearful people predicting its end).

And despite these “unfair labor practices” and the “grossly unequal labor costs” and everything else that people think will destroy us today in Asia, the North’s prosperity and Industry breed by freedom left it able to field an army large enough to invade and crush the South after it rebelled.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I’ll use it next time I feel like entering one of these “sky is falling” threads.

Jobs were not out sourced to the south little one they stayed in the north which is why the northren workers were spared the cokmpetition with low coast labor. Seems the north had a moral objection to slave labor, unlike todays capitalists that love it.

I hope you are a young person and will be forced to live with the consequences of your stupidity. It just doesn't seem fair that only your children suffer.

And oh by the way, your economic mind set is also killing the GOP and conservativism in the usa, that you will get to experience first hand in this election. Thanks alot neocons, you're killing the right.

The conclusion is that “outsourcing” jobs to the South that could be done cheaper there did not damage the North’s economy

So you support slave labor? Maybe we could do some deals with the Sudan. That way you could get your DVD player for $19.99 instead of $49.99. I think what we really need is to find some place where people are worked to death in concentration camps. That way we don't even have to pay for their food. When they die, we can burn them as fuel for the factory and replace them with fresh surplus population. If we can find a similar arrangement for raw material mining operations, we might be able to break the $10 price barrier for that DVD player

the North’s prosperity and Industry breed by freedom left it able to field an army large enough to invade and crush the South after it rebelled.

The North had a manufacturing economy, that is where its strength on the battlefield came from. The "outsourced" jobs were agricultural, mostly related to cotton production. If the North's economy was made strong by outsourcing to the South's slave economy, how is it that is was "bred by freedom". Slavery is Freedom. Now there's a logical procession you don't see everyday, 'cept maybe in books about evil times.