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To: A. Pole
Whatever will America do without the buggy whip industry?

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38 posted on 12/31/2006 6:58:43 AM PST by Lurker (History's most dangerous force is government and the crime syndicates that grow with it.)
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To: Lurker
Whatever will America do without the buggy whip industry?

Buggy whip industry in America was not replaced by the cheaper Chinese labor. It was replaced by the more efficient technology IN AMERICA, providing HIGHER paying jobs.

Cheap labor in the key inhibitor of technological progress as several historical examples show.

72 posted on 12/31/2006 7:37:25 AM PST by A. Pole (M. Boskin: "It doesn't make any difference whether a country makes potato chips or computer chips!")
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To: Lurker

"Whatever will America do without the buggy whip industry?"

When only China can make weapons, will they take us over?


84 posted on 12/31/2006 7:43:50 AM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: Lurker

Another one who spouts off "Buggy Whip". Again, stoplistening to Limbaugh and stop reading the WSJ op ed pages. How many times does this have to be explained. When autos replaced horse and buggys, the workers who made buggy whips simpily used their skills to start makings cars. There was little, if any retraining required, it was basically a lateral move.


107 posted on 12/31/2006 8:13:12 AM PST by RFT1
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