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(17,320 posts)hollysmom
(5,946 posts)lining the aqueducts with lead and out sourcing their military so their guards were not loyal to them.
If we outsource all our manufacturing, this country will not be self sufficient. Government goods should be made here, if no other company wants to use US good. Oh but there are all those trade treaties.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Topic number one for me.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Attitudes have to change, people have to be satisfied as business owners to have one nice house, two nice cars, etc.
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)The US is competing for jobs in a world marketplace. I would like to know how he plans to make the US more competitive against countries that can and do produce the same products for less money. He's also said he want to substantially increase the tax load on corporations. To me, these seem to be mutually exclusive ideas.
Ink Man
(171 posts)manufacturing jobs we need to keep our cheap energy.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)because of government subsidies. Remove the government subsidies and solar, wind and geothermal power is competitive with oil, gas and coal.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)We are well on our way to a English type of society of the 1880's and the Schrooge mentality. It's all about the money and how the Master Class can control the Indentured Class in order to produce crap for the so called emerging Middle Class of China. Nixon had this figured out in the early sixties.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)because they are unaware thanks to MSM largely. Chaplin well knew the realities and horrors of the Victorian era from spending time in workhouses as a youth.