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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: A. Pole

Bgetter check that theory with the patent office first.


82 posted on 12/31/2006 7:42:07 AM PST by pissant
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