HuH?What about my statement denied this?How did my statement deny that the economic downturns and adjustments,layoffs and change of educational needs in the market place would not be a time of turmoil and pain?The buggy makers who hung on in spite of the automobile's popularity were left with no jobs eventually.The buggy makers had to learn new skills.What is your solution to the fact that we no longer make things to sell overseas but we consume lot of goods from overseas?If a widget can be bought overseas cheaper...people buy the cheaper one.Who are the Robber Barons and how do you propose getting their wealth is going to cure the problem?What exactly do you propose?
I'll tell you about pain. Do you think the millions thrown out of work in America are going to continue to support that politically? They will be in the streets and they will be voting with a vengeance.
Buggy whips were a tiny part of the nation's output back then. The present destruction of American manufacturing is cutting such a wide swath through this country, we won't even be able to build critical, strategic defense items to protect ourselves.
A country that makes nothing is nothing.
So you want free market capitalism? So do I but it doesn't exist because countries such as China will not let Americans sell our products there.
If you textbook capitalists put money ahead of your country, you are traitors. Here are the priorities: God, family and country, in that order.