To: Mikey_1962
It appears to be true that Americans are much wealthier than 40 years ago. It might be worth considering how this can be when American industry has been moving offshore at the same time.
13 posted on
10/20/2006 9:24:02 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: RightWhale
Loss of Manufacturing jobs is a world wide phenomena. China even with all the manufacturing jobs it has added from othe countries lost 16 million manufacturing jobs in the last decade. US in the same period, lost only 2 million.
39 posted on
10/20/2006 10:54:20 AM PDT by
Mikey_1962
(If you build it, they won't come...)
To: RightWhale
It appears to be true that Americans are much wealthier than 40 years ago. It might be worth considering how this can be when American industry has been moving offshore at the same time.At one point 40% of the country worked in agriculture, now it's something like 2%, We should all be starving...
79 posted on
10/22/2006 6:45:23 PM PDT by
Onelifetogive
(* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some Freepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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