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What can a 15-year-old stripper in Kentucky tell you about China?
pearsonified → Blog → Made in the USA ^ | April 3, 2020 | pearsonified

Posted on 04/04/2020 6:15:25 AM PDT by Brookhaven

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To: Reeses
For every girl cheated out of her childhood, there's probably a boy cheated out of his.

Excellent point.

101 posted on 04/04/2020 10:20:56 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: Brookhaven; RoosterRedux

Yeah. Good story, but you were supposed to get back to the girl.

Like, ten years later you happened thru the same town and suddenly had an abcessed tooth, and accidentally found her working as a dental assistant, yes, a dental assistant, with a picture of a nice looking young gentleman, a young black gentleman actually, and two kids, having been rescued from her circumstances by certain members of her extended family, who helped her get rehabbed, GED’d, and into the local community college and thence to work.

Too contrived and sappy like a Lifetime movie? Yes, of course, but still... maybe?

Alternatively, one happened thru the same unfortunate little town and stopped at a seedy looking little C-Store to buy some gas and a coke... the guy behind the counter looked kinda recognizable but you just couldn’t place him... just as one was about to walk thru the door to go back out to one’s car... oh yeah... The bouncer from the bar.

So one turned back inside to ask a few questions of the former bouncer between other customers... And the discerning reader is left to figure it out, without one actually having to come out and say what happened when.

Nice article, though. It does have truth in it.


102 posted on 04/04/2020 10:24:46 AM PDT by OKSooner (Hey Xi, do you see this here, you know what this means?)
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To: Alberta's Child
"The problem is that Americans want $30/hour wages for themselves and Walmart prices for everything they buy, and this simply doesn't exist in reality."

That's very good.

103 posted on 04/04/2020 10:28:57 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Brookhaven

This is an excellent post..Note that the urban centers are where this virus is the worst...add to that the percentage of crime, abortions, lousy educational systems and you have reality staring you in the face. It is time to move many industries out of the population centers and into the flyover counties. It is time to decentralize government bureaucracies and share the wealth of government jobs in small communities. It is past time to restore the dignity and civil lifestyle of Main Street America. Maybe this virus will wake some people up.


104 posted on 04/04/2020 10:43:00 AM PDT by dunblak
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To: Keyhopper

What about the free traitors at Free Republic, who laughed at us “Buy American” types for paying a little more for Made in USA? I wonder how that $.10 they saved on paint brushes is working out for them now.


105 posted on 04/04/2020 10:43:28 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: Always A Marine; Brookhaven

Ha! I wondered if he was from that Brookhaven, too.


106 posted on 04/04/2020 11:20:07 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: mad_as_he$$
gmta

Sorry but I don't speak acronym. Does that stand for Good Morning To America?

107 posted on 04/04/2020 12:27:16 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (How did I survive the Swine flu and the killer flu of 2017-18 without govt. help?)
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To: Brookhaven
He nailed it.

The only part he left out was the synthetics they put in our food.

108 posted on 04/04/2020 12:30:51 PM PDT by riri (If people still dropping, most aint shopping.)
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To: Brookhaven

As a very young Navy man I saw outsourcing coming in 1964. To be more specific, when that pillar of corruption, LBJ, signed into law the 1964 civil rights act.

In my mind it was a foregone conclusion what company’s were going to do.


109 posted on 04/04/2020 12:47:37 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
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To: Hot Tabasco

Yes and great minds think alike.


110 posted on 04/04/2020 1:27:29 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Brookhaven
A sad tale of much truth and consequences, though the inability to write without vulgarity and profanity (or choice to do so) also testifies to the downgrading of America, and not just strip joints and drugs. Which has cost America greatly in lives, souls and money .

However, Americans of ages past endured more hardship without turning to drugs and moral degradation, and it is the spiritual decline of the country (including even in the evangelical churches) that is behind its choices to go liberal, immoral, and unwise in economics.

Concerning the latter, China was not simply happy to satisfy America's love for low prices at any cost, but I believe it was a calculated move on their part to vastly diminish the industrial might that was integral in enabling America to win 2 world wars.

111 posted on 04/04/2020 1:42:03 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Persevero

And why drag “Christian” into it?


Christian County is an actual county in West KY next to TN. Ft. Campbell is located in it. I imagine it was named for someone rather than as a religious statement.


112 posted on 04/04/2020 4:28:53 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

The county is named for Colonel William Christian, a native of Augusta County, Virginia, and a veteran of the Revolutionary War. He settled near Louisville, Kentucky in 1785, and was killed by Native Americans in southern Indiana in 1786.


113 posted on 04/04/2020 4:30:44 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

“...was killed by Native Americans in southern Indiana in 1786.”


I’ll bet he didn’t refer to them as “Native Americans”.


114 posted on 04/04/2020 4:33:33 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Persevero

Your wisdom is infinite.


115 posted on 04/04/2020 4:51:58 PM PDT by sport
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To: Popman

It happened after World War I also. Lots of people were gassed.


116 posted on 04/04/2020 5:01:17 PM PDT by sport
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To: hanamizu

Learn something new every day. Ok!


117 posted on 04/04/2020 5:24:43 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: Brookhaven

Somebody just missed being rolled.


118 posted on 04/04/2020 5:28:25 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

The free traitors knew full well what they were doing because the rest of us told them so but as the recipients of Chinas barbarian management they dgaf. They deserve to be beaten and hung from lampposts like any other traitor.


119 posted on 04/04/2020 5:43:52 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: devane617
when I see ‘stripper’ in the title I come for the pics.


120 posted on 04/04/2020 6:44:35 PM PDT by Oatka
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