[bronxboy]

I declare myself a patriot. We need a manufacturing base. Not only do we need to save the Auto’s we need to bring back manufacturing in a big way. If this financial crisis has demonstrated anything, It demonstrates that our ‘evolved service economy’ will not work and will destroy not only the economy but the middle class in this country. All the financial pundits on television and in print are supporting a stimulus package on infrastructure. They know we can not trade mortgage papers in order to climb out of this economic grave...this country is languishing in...we must build stuff. Such a plan would not be necessary had we promoted our manufacturing sector instead of essentially destroying it.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I declare myself a patriot. We need a manufacturing base. Not only do we need to save the Auto’s we need to bring back manufacturing in a big way. If this financial crisis has demonstrated anything, It demonstrates that our ‘evolved service economy’ will not work and will destroy not only the economy but the middle class in this country. All the financial pundits on television and in print are supporting a stimulus package on infrastructure. They know we can not trade mortgage papers in order to climb out of this economic grave...this country is languishing in...we must build stuff. Such a plan would not be necessary had we promoted our manufacturing sector instead of essentially destroying it.

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Good post...and you probably get hammered by the Globalists on it...but we really need to get back to our manufacturing base.

What good is “free trade” if you make nothing to trade?

I think this is the reality facing many of your Free Trader/Globalists right now. The reality is that their economic ideas do not work...and need government to bail them out

Just as the Eastern Europeans realized that Communism was a failure, we need to realize that our Free Trade/Globalist policies are failures. The American economy needs to be re-Americanized

[MrPiper]

I declare myself a patriot. We need a manufacturing base.

Oh, one like Russia or China??? I declare Atlas Shrugged,, I will layoff my 10 employees and go on vacation. Enjoy your new socialist country. It not mine! Patriot of the USSA maybe!

[eleni121]

I declare myself a patriot.

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No you are not. Patriots do not cave into Left wing Unions.

Patriots stand for principle not paternalism!

[Thorin]

You are absolutely correct.