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To: Alberta's Child
I'm not so sure that our "manufacturing base" is really smaller today than it was 50 years ago.

So where are the manufacturing or service jobs? If our population has doubled in the past 50 years, so then, the output of industry should have also at least doubled.

It hasn't.

The cause of this, in one word: Outsourcing...

the Far East, Mexico, and other countries manufacturing is BOOMING, along with their exports TO the US...

68 posted on 09/01/2010 10:03:43 AM PDT by NorCoGOP (OBAMA: Living proof that hope is not a plan.)
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To: NorCoGOP

Industy output hasn’t doubled? Huh?

https://static.flatworldknowledge.com/sites/all/files/29936/fwk-rittenmacro-fig05_002.jpg


95 posted on 09/01/2010 10:18:44 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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