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Not made in the USA
NY Post ^ | December 12, 2010 | MAUREEN CALLAHAN

Posted on 12/12/2010 3:55:10 AM PST by Scanian

Edited on 12/12/2010 4:06:21 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Among the number of plant closings announced in the United States this week: A printing plant in Greenburg, Ind., costing 220 jobs; a tomato processing plant in Westover, Md., with 103 people fired; an office-supply facility in Mattoon, Ill., with 129 jobs lost.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: outsourcing; plantclosings; robots; underclass
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To: expat_panama

Nostalgia aside, the relics of old industry are indicative of the paralyzing greed that infected the Country’s industrial infrastructure.

I embrace new technologies and rebuilding old infrastructure. But what we see left behind is abandonment of industrial exceptionalism. The woebegone mills, factories, and railroads are the visible symbols of the desertion.


201 posted on 12/15/2010 2:49:31 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Esther Ruth

Those elite need a middle class too. That way they can use class warfare to pit the lower against the middle and themselves be insulated.


202 posted on 12/15/2010 3:01:08 PM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

I used to play the don’t buy china game. Can’t afford it any more. Now I try to play the “don’t buy period” game.


203 posted on 12/15/2010 3:04:21 PM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

You are a free traitor. The last thing from being a patriot. You must change your freep name for the New Year to toddster or toddler. You must eliminate the “patriot” you have appended to your name under false pretenses. I am in touch with Jim Robinson about this issue


204 posted on 12/15/2010 3:11:46 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: 1rudeboy
You exemplify libertarian numbnutz at its finest. ToddlerPatriot is your closest competition. Ex-Pat Panama is so far out of the loop bugging out to Panama. A coconut must have dropped on his head psycho-babbler. He's been smoking that Panama red
205 posted on 12/15/2010 3:18:51 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: dennisw

Cry some more, commie.


206 posted on 12/15/2010 3:29:11 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Toddsterpatriot
Apart from advocating that the government spend your own money in the name of your own good, and defining it as patriotism, dennis now wants the FR website government to force you to change your moniker. He's on a roll.

Signed,
1rudepatriot

207 posted on 12/15/2010 3:40:15 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

At best your libertarianism is amusing and irrelevant.


208 posted on 12/15/2010 3:40:57 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: dennisw

Much like your stupidity, seeing that I am not a libertarian, but a free-market conservative.


209 posted on 12/15/2010 3:42:53 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
We need to ask these friggin' Bolsheviks

Your the one with this head so far up China's ass when they fart your ears flap.

210 posted on 12/15/2010 3:49:50 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 1rudeboy
Cry some more, commie.

Lets see, i'll bet Dennis is against free trade with China, WHO ARE COMMUNIST, and you are all for playing grab ass with the Chinese Bolsheviks, You really crack me up, you traitor. I call this hypocrisy, you call it free trade.

211 posted on 12/15/2010 3:53:42 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 1rudeboy
but a free-market conservative.

You know butt wheat, you can't have FREE TRADE WITH A COMMUNIST COUNTRY. Only you do not see the irony in this.

212 posted on 12/15/2010 3:55:21 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Funny, the only time anyone mentions China it’s you guys, crying like babies. As I’ve said a thousand times before: China does not have a free market, the U.S. does not have free trade with China, and you are a complete pinhead.


213 posted on 12/15/2010 3:56:08 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Gene Eric
"I embrace new technologies and rebuilding old infrastructure. But what we see left behind is abandonment of industrial exceptionalism. The woebegone mills, factories, and railroads are the visible symbols of the desertion. "

I like your insight. You can couple people within the concept of desertion. American citizens are abandoned by American corporations in the economic limbo contest for the lowest cost and the fastest buck. American corporations with the power of free speech [read dollars] to influence the election process to sanctify their dissolution of the American economy.

We must make more of what we import or we will continue to skid toward our meltdown as a world power. If corporations are unwilling to make in this [their] country, then there must be tariffs to equalize the difference in what countries buy from us and what we buy from them.

214 posted on 12/15/2010 3:58:31 PM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: ex-snook

Does it ever cross your mind that the first thing to happen should be making it easier for U.S. corporations to operate? Why the beeline to raising everybody’s taxes?


215 posted on 12/15/2010 4:01:26 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

SO you are against any trade of any kind with China?


216 posted on 12/15/2010 4:05:02 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Absolutely not. I will not rest until the Chinese are all driving Buicks.


217 posted on 12/15/2010 4:08:03 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: expat_panama
Ya can't buy entertainment like this!

Idiots on parade.

Being a hyper-capitalist, you'll appreciate this quote from another hyper-capitalist:

~~~ Ayn Rand

She understood leftists -- and other dictator types posing as conservatives -- well.

218 posted on 12/15/2010 4:17:29 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: 1rudeboy
"Does it ever cross your mind that the first thing to happen should be making it easier for U.S. corporations to operate? Why the beeline to raising everybody’s taxes? "

Stop the bull about taxes. The taxes paid could be relatively zero and the jobs would still be exported because of the labor costs. Tax rates were even higher when the country was prosperous.

219 posted on 12/15/2010 4:35:02 PM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: ex-snook

Taxes, schmaxes. What difference does it make if I bank $1.00, or $0.70 . . . right?


220 posted on 12/15/2010 4:37:10 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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