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To: bert; Last Dakotan
Actually, The decision was made by companies that decided to stay in business by ceasing to use US labor to manufacture products that were no longer profitable to make her.

If it wasn't profitable products here, it's because we chose to make it profitable to ship jobs out of the country by buying the products made overseas.

Now what do we have? Sending money to China when we buy their products, and again when we pay back the money we borrowed to buy their products. Technology transfers to China. Unemployment benefits that must be paid and fewer tax paying citizens to pay for them. Our money funding foreign militaries while our military is being cut back. Money that could be helping our veterans that is instead helping the veterans of countries they protected us from.

And what did we get in return? $.25 off the price of a comb set.

62 posted on 08/02/2013 4:28:14 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Ugh, “If it wasn’t profitable products here” should be “If it wasn’t profitable to make products here”


63 posted on 08/02/2013 4:29:59 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

You overlook the fact that there are other people in the world that make stuff to sell as well and they are aggressive competitors.

Isolation breeds stagnation and ultimately death. ey rcovered

The reason we were so successful was that much of the world was literally destroyed. We did not lose our economy in WW II. Once they recovered they wanted to be us. They work hard to get stuff.

To exist we must compete. Our companies great and small know that and thrive on the competition all over the world.


66 posted on 08/02/2013 6:22:15 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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