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To: Joe the Pimpernel; All
Slave labor is so much more convenient than that of a free people.

You sound like a union apologist. Reality is deeper than that.

In his career, Steve Jobs made considerable effort to build his products here. There's a long history of attempts but ultimately America's manufacturing base just isn't competitive enough. It's lazy and spartan.

Consider the iPhone, we now know when he rejected the scratchable plastic screen on his prototype in favor of glass. His directive could not be handled in the U.S. because American manufacturing moves at the speed of molasses and can't raise an army of 30,000 workers at the drop of a hat. China has that capacity. Asia has worked hard to build a competency in electronics manufacturing that we haven't cared to.

In the past 15 years, Jobs had many choice words for our "education" system and teacher unions as well.

31 posted on 01/22/2012 6:02:37 PM PST by newzjunkey (Next up "winner-take-all" FL ... we must derail Romney's inevitability.)
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To: newzjunkey
You sound like a union apologist. Reality is deeper than that.

Quite the opposite, actually.

I quite agree that American productivity is inferior because of unions.

I don't agree that we are inferior because we don't treat labor like the ChiComs do.

You are intelligent enough to discern the difference there, aren't you?

34 posted on 01/22/2012 6:34:52 PM PST by Joe the Pimpernel (Too many lawmakers, too many laws, too many lawyers.)
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