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To: dogbyte12
Has family life improved since manufacturing started moving off shore?

Mine has. Goods are much cheaper, and we can afford more of them. I guess we'd be better off if we could only buy higher priced, lower quality goods, and couldn't choose from the productive output of the world. Now, if a family feels the need to 'keep up with the Joneses' they can got the two income route. It's their choice what is more important to them. Imagine for a moment if your home only had in it what a home in the 1950's had (when a TV cost half the average annual wage). Are you saying you couldn't pull that on one income? People always want more, what they do to achieve it, and what they balance against it, is up to them, as it should be.

89 posted on 08/25/2003 4:51:36 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3
Mine has.

So have those of the overwhelming majority of this country.

93 posted on 08/25/2003 4:56:32 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Proudly posting without the </sarcasm> tag for at least a few months.)
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To: Gunslingr3
I really hate all the cheaply made garbage which is imported from the PRC. I'd pay a few pennies more for better quality items made in North Dakota or Mexico.
972 posted on 08/26/2003 5:56:07 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Un-PC even to "Conservatives!" - Right makes right)
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