[STONEWALLS]

'Much of our manufacturing base has headed overseas'

....."if World War Two were to come again there wouldn't be enough domestic textile capacity to put all the boys in uniform"....so says my father-in-law who retired after almost 40 years in the Carolina's textile industry....and BTW anybody who's ever seen what happens to a small town when the mill closes down knows how devastating it is in human terms.....and in a larger sense what is the long term strategic outlook for a country when it's citizens no longer know how to weave cloth, or how to make steel, or how to build ships or how to grow food?....

Good luck to everybody!

Stonewalls

[STONEWALLS]

.....oops!...forgot to thank you Rohry for posting n' hosting....I always look foreward to these discussions....

.....hope everybody's got their Christmas shopping done... I experianced long lines at the registers at my local mega-mall and the Post Office was madness on Friday.

Good luck to everybody!

Stonewalls the Ant

[palmer]

anybody who's ever seen what happens to a small town when the mill closes down knows how devastating it is in human terms

Sure whatever, but we all get cheaper sneakers and we can use the savings to buy some extra crap at ChinaMart. Or invest it in the stock market, yeah that's the ticket!

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

and in a larger sense what is the long term strategic outlook for a country when it's citizens no longer know how to weave cloth, or how to make steel, or how to build ships or how to grow food?....

might as well enjoy the ride, Party People in the Back, cuz we gonna ride this sucker all the way in.

[steveegg]

Well, if America forgets how to grow food, it's all over for the entire world as (almost) no one else knows how to grow food in quantity.