Ikonoklast
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Thu Jan-22-09 06:56 PM
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Where is the demand coming from? Are they sized for commercial use, or more for retail customers?
I'm just being nosy.
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| -To what degree is allowing manufacturing jobs to be outsourced resp for this 2nd depression? |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 05:46 PM |
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It's the primary proximate cause. |
baldguy |
Jan-22-09 05:51 PM |
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An economy can produce more than physical objects. |
Veritas_et_Aequitas |
Jan-22-09 05:52 PM |
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We manufacture 747s and hamburgers. Not much in between. |
baldguy |
Jan-22-09 05:57 PM |
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Yep - somebody is going to correct the mistake made when free trade was permitted |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 05:58 PM |
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Our exports include: |
Veritas_et_Aequitas |
Jan-22-09 06:04 PM |
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How many domestic manufacturers of computers are there? |
baldguy |
Jan-22-09 06:17 PM |
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Right because our economy completely languished under Clinton. |
Veritas_et_Aequitas |
Jan-22-09 06:34 PM |
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Clinton's economic policies were, for the most part extensions of the previous Reagan/Bush policies. |
baldguy |
Jan-22-09 06:53 PM |
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The way I understand it, Clinton promoted any and all outsourcing of our jobs |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 07:08 PM |
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Lets say its not protectionism...think of it as being self sufficient. |
TheKentuckian |
Jan-22-09 07:15 PM |
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There's a problem with our SUBSIDIZED corn and other food exports... |
calipendence |
Jan-22-09 07:50 PM |
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not really true. Per this report, & others I've read, US mfg output has continued to grow. |
Hannah Bell |
Jan-22-09 09:24 PM |
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That's what I think too nt |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 05:52 PM |
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Total manufacturing production |
taught_me_patience |
Jan-23-09 01:17 AM |
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The real question is, what sector will lead us out of this mess? |
Ikonoklast |
Jan-22-09 05:51 PM |
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The service sector? We're going to service one another out of the depression? That's ridiculous. |
w4rma |
Jan-22-09 05:53 PM |
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Exactly what I think! Until companies are punished for outsourcing.... |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 05:59 PM |
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It is ridiculous. |
Ikonoklast |
Jan-22-09 06:02 PM |
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Agreed. An economy can't thrive on workers serving each other coffee |
Liberal_in_LA |
Jan-23-09 02:05 AM |
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This is something that the Obama people are going to have to get a handle on pretty... |
LakeSamish706 |
Jan-22-09 05:53 PM |
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Manufacturing jobs need to be brought back here pretty quickly too |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 05:56 PM |
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I agree with you. Also think that NAFTA, CAFTA and any other trade agreements... |
LakeSamish706 |
Jan-22-09 06:00 PM |
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Unless Obama does this, he can continue spending our billions and jobs will continue to die..... |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 06:01 PM |
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it is the killing blow in what the ruling elite hoped was the last battle in the class war. |
leftofthedial |
Jan-22-09 05:53 PM |
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That's what I think too. I think they're going to have to penalize those who manufacture abroad |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 05:57 PM |
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I agree. |
leftofthedial |
Jan-22-09 06:57 PM |
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It's not helping, but it's not the biggest problem. |
Veritas_et_Aequitas |
Jan-22-09 05:55 PM |
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I work in the manufacturing world & business couldn't be better right now. |
The_Casual_Observer |
Jan-22-09 05:55 PM |
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What sector? DoD related? |
Ikonoklast |
Jan-22-09 06:05 PM |
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No, completely commercial. Aluminum pressure vessels for compressed gas. |
The_Casual_Observer |
Jan-22-09 06:45 PM |
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That's interesting. |
Ikonoklast |
Jan-22-09 06:56 PM |
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Medical Oxygen, Co2, Industrial gas, SCUBA. |
The_Casual_Observer |
Jan-22-09 07:06 PM |
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Thnx. n/t |
Ikonoklast |
Jan-22-09 07:07 PM |
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:-) nt |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 07:14 PM |
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Apparently your own sector has remained healthy. You say, |
sammythecat |
Jan-22-09 08:03 PM |
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I didn't say anything like that I only know what I am doing, and |
The_Casual_Observer |
Jan-22-09 10:40 PM |
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The OP was about the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs |
sammythecat |
Jan-23-09 01:13 AM |
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Well genius, my point was that we never outsourced, or went offshore |
The_Casual_Observer |
Jan-23-09 10:12 AM |
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Seriously, you have a problem with reading comprehension. |
sammythecat |
Jan-23-09 04:17 PM |
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people can't pay mortgages because they have no jobs. fix job problem and |
davidwparker |
Jan-22-09 06:19 PM |
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We offshore far more than manufactuing..... |
lib2DaBone |
Jan-22-09 06:37 PM |
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It's not simply offshoring. It's productivity. The US produces more steel than it did in the days |
Hannah Bell |
Jan-22-09 06:46 PM |
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The curse of productivity. |
hay rick |
Jan-22-09 07:05 PM |
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So true. The aim is always the same: how to get slave labor or something like it ... |
Sarah Ibarruri |
Jan-22-09 07:18 PM |
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Yes. If the workers filling the jobs had been given part of the productivity increases in |
Hannah Bell |
Jan-22-09 09:27 PM |
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The problem with productivity increases is |
hay rick |
Jan-22-09 09:59 PM |
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To a very high degree |
Stinky The Clown |
Jan-22-09 08:19 PM |
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I think it was 1. tighted credit 2. over expansion |
underpants |
Jan-23-09 01:42 AM |
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