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To: arete
I have a bit of personal knowledge about this subject. Besides the obvious loss of manufacturing jobs to China...Did you know that China actually makes Machine tools like Vertical milling machines(VMC) for instance? As the artical states these machines are used for forming metal parts. They can mill,drill,and tap. Basically you can lay down a block on steel on a table and hit a button called "Cycle Start" and the machine takes over. A computer controlls the forming of the part. The machine changes its own bits.

Well the truth is that China has been making these machines for a number years. And guess what? They make them a whole lot cheaper. American machine tool companys are going out of buisness. Including one that I used to work for. As I recall these machines were being shipped to China illegally about ten years ago...When a US machine tool company shut down then some of there machines went to China. These were considered High tech and it was illegal to send them to China. Clinton was involved if I recall.

It should be no surprise that China studied them and started building there own. After all these machines are key to there manufacturing jobs also. At this point in time I suppose they probably make them better than we do. Our industry is in pure survival mode. Mark my words. China will be the death of prosperity in this once great nation. And wee held there hands and taught them how to kill us. Then we gave them the keys to complete the job.

50 posted on 07/13/2003 9:04:10 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel
China will be the death of prosperity in this once great nation. And wee held there hands and taught them how to kill us. Then we gave them the keys to complete the job.

Yep, and once it becomes clear to the average citizen that we have been sold down the river by our so called trusted leaders who have padded their own pockets and the pockets of their friends this whole time, those same leaders will be running around pointing the finger at others and finding scapegoats in order to dodge their own accountablitity. The greed and corruption in Washington knows no bounds except the nations final demise.

Richard W.

52 posted on 07/13/2003 9:16:26 PM PDT by arete (Greenspan is a ruling class elitist and closet socialist who is destroying the economy)
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To: Revel
Too damn correct!

And we are still at it, exporting virtually ALL of our core industries off shore as fast as possible.

Disgusting, makes being a little older look like an advantage as I expect (hope?) to expire before this garbage reaches it's logical conclusion.

We had a great country, once.
53 posted on 07/13/2003 9:18:23 PM PDT by Richard-SIA (Nuke the U.N!)
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