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19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Make You Weep
Business Insider ^
| 9/27/10
| Michael Snyder
Posted on 03/20/2016 2:57:17 PM PDT by central_va
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To: Partisan Gunslinger
Really? They merely were the only US revenue source from 1850-1913
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posted on
03/21/2016 2:59:03 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: DoodleDawg
Cruz has the answer which is mostly ignored. Smaller and less intrusive government would do wonders in restoring America’s can do culture.
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posted on
03/21/2016 3:24:23 AM PDT
by
monocle
To: entropy12
Trump, the only candidate talking about $1,000,000,000,000 foreign trade DEFICIT EVERY YEAR, which is main reason middle class jobs have disappeared from the United States. Trump talking about a trillion dollar trade deficit when it's only about half that doesn't surprise me at all.
To: LS
Yeah. Sort of like when we used to send a gun boat and Columbia gave us Panama. Just like that. Let me know how that works.
To: DoughtyOne
No, businesses are all-in when it comes to profit. Regulations are killing manufacturing jobs quicker than most realize.
To: Alberta's Child
am a consultant, but I am not a paid lobbyist. I am an engineer by trade. Sure.
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posted on
03/21/2016 4:18:47 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
I’d love to have a ‘66 tri-power Corvette to drive on sunny Sunday afternoons, but the average American car from say 1970-1985 was lucky to go 6-7 years without major failures or rusting out.
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posted on
03/21/2016 4:21:31 AM PDT
by
Eric Pode of Croydon
(President Hillary Clinton will attend Donald Trump's next wedding.)
To: Eric Pode of Croydon
It is what America wanted. Cars that had style and power and the average Joe could fix almost any problem themselves. You could get a fully loaded 1968 muscle car for around $20,000 in current dollars.
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posted on
03/21/2016 4:27:52 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: DoodleDawg; Alberta's Child
The 1924 Republican Platform
The Tariff
We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.
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posted on
03/21/2016 4:40:48 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
It is what America wanted.Until they had a chance to buy Toyotas and Hondas.
The competition made American cars much, much better.
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posted on
03/21/2016 4:41:33 AM PDT
by
Eric Pode of Croydon
(President Hillary Clinton will attend Donald Trump's next wedding.)
To: Eric Pode of Croydon
but they still don’t measure up
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posted on
03/21/2016 4:46:10 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
To: Eric Pode of Croydon
The competition made American cars much, much better. Boring you mean.
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posted on
03/21/2016 4:52:05 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: semimojo
You obviously do not know what modern manufacturing is.
High tech, automation, robotics. This requires engineers and skilled technicians, not people hitting a piece of steel with a hammer. These are the high paying jobs we want, not part time, low paying retail and hospitality jobs.
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posted on
03/21/2016 4:58:16 AM PDT
by
cp124
(Trade, Immigration, Intervention)
To: cp124
High tech, automation, robotics. This requires engineers and skilled technicians, not people hitting a piece of steel with a hammer. All the more reason for tariffs to keep them here. Good argument.
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posted on
03/21/2016 5:06:15 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: DoodleDawg
I think we had Panama for 100 years if I remember correctly. I’d say damn good.
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posted on
03/21/2016 5:32:54 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: LS
I think we had Panama for 100 years if I remember correctly. Id say damn good. Then it'll be interesting to watch President Trump use that tactic on world trade.
To: DoodleDawg
It will indeed. Course, the British used it for 100 years with darn good success too. It’s called “opening markets.”
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posted on
03/21/2016 5:40:12 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: LS
It will indeed. Course, the British used it for 100 years with darn good success too. Its called opening markets. Trump does have a streak of colonialism in him but I don't think it's going to work these days.
To: DoodleDawg
British didn’t colonize China. It’s called opening markets.
We did it to Japan with Commodore Perry, or do you not know American history at all?
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posted on
03/21/2016 5:53:56 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: LS
British didnt colonize China. Its called opening markets. Via a couple of Opium Wars, seizing territory, stationing troops in Chinese cities and ships on Chinese rivers. It'll be interesting to see Trump do that.
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