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In reply to the discussion: Let me make this pellucidly clear [View all]NHvet
(240 posts)16. 40 plus years in the making
After years and years of the businesses moving offshore in search of lower costs, less regulations and little or no government oversight (no unions, no child labor laws, no EPA, no OSHA, and best off virtually no taxes) has brought all this on. In large part to the lobbying of the Chamber of Commerce of the republican party to have laws written by them to reward such moves. Throw in a pandemic, shut down large patches of the worlds economies and this is what happens. Going global has its drawbacks... who knew?
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If only this country had enough intelligent people that realized this truth. Instead,
bullwinkle428
Oct 2021
#1
Don't Moscow Mitch and his wife, former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chau ..
IggleDuer
Oct 2021
#30
The empty shipping containers need to be loaded onto ships and taken back to China
FakeNoose
Oct 2021
#32
too many truck, rail, and warehouse workers are too Trumpified to wear their masks
paulkienitz
Oct 2021
#36
I do think the previous administration scared a lot of Boomers into early retirement nt
Shermann
Oct 2021
#40
Malaise, we might note the public sector's key part of our supply chain is relatively healthy.
KY_EnviroGuy
Oct 2021
#43
MSM in conjunction with the conservatronic PTB are Carterizing their own creation.
jaxexpat
Oct 2021
#44