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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 08:31 PM Original message |
No Future for Textiles in 'City of Looms' |
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Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. I wonder how many textiles from the Kannapolis plants the local Wal-Mart.. |
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jdj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 12:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Only the ones imported from Kannapolis, China. |
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Career Prole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. At LEAST 397,000 jobs lost. |
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indianablue (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. Of course these are Bush loving states.. |
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Sara Beverley (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
4. What you need to find out is if Cannon has a China plant. |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. HOLY FUCKING SHIT! |
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Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:03 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Pet peeve alert: China is not part of NAFTA |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. yes, hence the name "NORTH AMERICAN FTA" but you got my |
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Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Yes. I am just a stickler when people talk about NAFTA... |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 12:56 AM Response to Reply #14 |
24. It makes perfect sense to consider the distinction |
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InvisibleBallots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-04 12:42 AM Response to Reply #14 |
72. Nafta is used as a blanket term for "free trade agreements" now |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 11:29 AM Response to Reply #11 |
59. Bush helped China get into the WTO |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 09:11 AM Response to Reply #5 |
57. God! Ross Perot was right when he said, "wait until you hear that |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. This is devastating to the people economy and America |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
7. You dumb motherfuckers sympathy from ME?!?!? |
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newscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Same thing happened in my hometown |
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DemBones DemBones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:07 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Yes, and now the corporate goons think even Southerners |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 02:56 AM Response to Reply #12 |
46. ...Gots to have them $4 shoes and $5 jeans... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. All the mill towns in our neck o' de woods |
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Benhurst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 12:52 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. How many of them will vote GOP after their unemployment runs out? |
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The Zanti Regent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 07:32 AM Response to Reply #23 |
55. 'cause they got Jesus |
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Malva Zebrina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 05:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
38. same in Maine, as well as the shoe industry |
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DemBones DemBones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Who are you insulting here? And why? If you're insulting |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Some of them move up here and bring they're fundamentalism with them |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. I feel bad for them all |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 12:30 AM Response to Reply #20 |
40. Hey Tinoire |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 01:30 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I know lol |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. It's NOT a question of insulting.... |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 01:15 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Very true, we American workers have ate our own! Every last factory is |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 03:44 AM Response to Reply #25 |
32. info economy...then the big thing was US the breadbasket of the world |
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NYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 02:25 AM Response to Reply #32 |
44. America is becoming a net importer of food. |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 11:32 AM Response to Reply #44 |
60. Farm imports exceeded exports last year - first time in 50 years |
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NYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 11:01 PM Response to Reply #60 |
64. What happened 50 years ago that imports exceeded exports? |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. sympathy |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Me too! |
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InvisibleBallots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 01:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
36. yeah, they should have voted Dem, since Clinton passed NAFTA! |
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Mend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 07:36 AM Response to Reply #36 |
56. Did bush unpass Nafta in the past 4 years? |
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InvisibleBallots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 09:25 AM Response to Reply #56 |
58. Bush didn't have to do much of anything |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 11:34 AM Response to Reply #36 |
62. NAFTA had NOTHING to do with losing the south |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-04 12:53 AM Response to Reply #62 |
73. Abortion and Jesus? LMAO! |
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wovenpaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
18. Hit me personally |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 12:04 PM Response to Reply #18 |
63. I'm so sorry |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
21. boo hoo.... |
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vogonjiltz (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
26. dumbfucks |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 01:51 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. They won't learn it unless we "beat" it into them? |
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ngGale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 02:29 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. He's scaring me too, I had stop lurking, sign in just... |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 02:44 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. THANKS for posting that! |
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ngGale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 03:33 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Why how nice of you, Tinorie... |
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flygal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 01:04 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Great post! |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 01:34 AM Response to Reply #31 |
42. Naw, I appreciate your presence and your passion |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 03:51 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. huh? WTF? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 12:40 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. But there won't be any Pell Grant money for them! |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 05:00 PM Response to Reply #26 |
37. I'm thinking you're a bit late taking your meds (eom) |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 03:17 AM Response to Original message |
30. How are textiles made in China? |
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NYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 02:32 AM Response to Reply #30 |
45. Keep your old clothing going. Repair, etc. |
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kodi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 12:08 AM Response to Reply #30 |
66. full moon got you tonight? |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 03:29 AM Response to Reply #66 |
69. rude response |
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kodi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-04 12:41 AM Response to Reply #69 |
71. what is rude is your complete and utter ignorance on this subject. |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-04 04:28 AM Response to Reply #71 |
75. Academia and industry |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
39. They just need to pull themselves up by their Chinese bootstraps |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 01:54 AM Response to Original message |
43. North Carolina, eh? |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 03:03 AM Response to Reply #43 |
47. Our VP came from there. John Edwards... And very anti-Free-Trade |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 03:17 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Fuck North Carolina! |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 03:23 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Why though? n/t |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 03:29 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Being shit is part of NC's heritage |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 03:35 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. Ok.. Being from the East Coast, a few states North, I see them differently |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 03:52 AM Response to Reply #51 |
52. "Where are you? " |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 04:03 AM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Certainly intrigued about where someone who can afford the luxury |
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ngGale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 02:05 AM Response to Reply #47 |
68. Back to the...if only... |
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Wright Patman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-04 09:07 AM Response to Reply #68 |
76. Stop excusing Clinton |
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Jane Eyre (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 11:06 PM Response to Reply #43 |
65. Mecklenburg County (Charlotte) gave Kerry 53% of their votes |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 04:24 AM Response to Original message |
54. perhaps it's time to find a new use for cloth. |
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Malikshah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
61. Take this article add it to airlines ones, and Israel going w/ China |
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vogonjiltz (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
67. I just have to ask... |
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FDRrocks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 03:35 AM Response to Original message |
70. Thanks, Bill |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-04 12:55 AM Response to Reply #70 |
74. Very good quote for this |
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