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To: Brilliant

China will be making heavy equipment inside of five years. They'll be making airplanes in ten.

As for shoe and t-shirt manufacturers, I would lump small manufacturers of all kinds in with them, such as small tool and die shops, etc. Many of those have already gone to China.

None of those jobs are coming back. Ever.


61 posted on 06/08/2005 4:52:49 AM PDT by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: durasell

China already makes airplanes and heavy equipment. We do it better. And we aren't going to help our airplane and heavy equipment industries by penalizing them to protect shoe makers and t-shirt makers.

Personally, it does not bother me that the shoe makers and t-shirt makers aren't coming back. Keep in mind that China did not drive our shoe makers and t-shirt makers out of business. We haven't had those industries for decades. The Chinese are competing more against the Mexicans and Indonesians than they are against Americans.

If China ever decides to cut off our supply of shoes and t-shirts, I'm sure we will have no difficulty resurrecting those industries.


62 posted on 06/08/2005 5:01:54 AM PDT by Brilliant
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