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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 10:41 PM Original message |
Less than 10% of our economy is related to the production of basic goods and services. |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. G. Immeldt has said more than once, we must get our MFG base |
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AdHocSolver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 01:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. To make the US economy work, 80 percent of what we BUY must be made in the USA. |
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Ghost Dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 05:22 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. The EU would of course have to do much the same; |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 07:21 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Is the current economy worth saving? |
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AdHocSolver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:08 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Creating our own microeconomies, as you put it, IS a viable solution to our economic problems. |
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wuvuj (874 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 09:45 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Well if it has the word FREE in it...well there you go? |
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postulater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. We're screwn. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Especially plastic crap from China |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 04:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. My Maytag washer is over 25 years old. |
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postulater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 09:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. And the old ones are much more repairable than the new. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
3. You have a quote. Link? n/t |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-22-09 11:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Here...one link of many many. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 07:48 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. if it's one of many, how bout one that isn't a silver-bug site. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 04:15 AM Response to Original message |
7. This is the most important thread that I have seen on DU ever. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 11:38 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. That 10% says it all, doesn't it? |
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unc70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 04:17 AM Response to Original message |
9. All economies are headed in that direction. Automation, etc. |
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4dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
14. Its called consumerism aka conservative economic policy |
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Bewits (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-23-09 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
16. Question?????? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
19. US industrial output is 2.7 trillion and is more than China AND Japan combined. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-27-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. We don't make the stuff most of us use |
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Po_d Mainiac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
20. This is so sad it's almost comical |
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