Pangolin2
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Sun Sep-13-09 09:37 PM
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| 14. True but the world isn't anything like it ever was before. |
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Our ability to determine our future decreases in inverse proportion to our numbers. Or, to put it another way, a consensus on virtually any issue becomes more nearly impossible every time another person becomes involved.
I think a reading of DU confirms it.
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| -What could bring manufacturing back to the USA at this point? |
madville |
Sep-13-09 08:57 PM |
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Protective tariffs would do the trick |
tularetom |
Sep-13-09 09:01 PM |
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It's impossible to compete |
madville |
Sep-13-09 09:05 PM |
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Our wages indeed, can and ***will*** go lower |
astral |
Sep-13-09 11:12 PM |
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TransitJohn |
Sep-14-09 10:04 AM |
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My view is that the use of the dollar as a global currency |
Blue Meany |
Sep-14-09 12:24 PM |
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Agreed. nt |
anonymous171 |
Sep-13-09 09:41 PM |
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"the depressing of wages to third world levels" BINGO!!! |
4_TN_TITANS |
Sep-14-09 12:49 PM |
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Higher fuel prices......they're coming......you'll see. n/t |
theophilus |
Sep-13-09 09:03 PM |
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quit buying the cheap shit from china. just gonna break in a day or so |
seabeyond |
Sep-13-09 09:07 PM |
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Earth people have now pretty much put 'cheap' at the top of their priority list. |
Pangolin2 |
Sep-13-09 09:07 PM |
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Open Source software demonstrates price isn't everything. |
bigmonkey |
Sep-14-09 11:57 AM |
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Well, maybe but I think it's a little different than with hard goods. I guess you're thinking of |
Pangolin2 |
Sep-14-09 04:08 PM |
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As I see it, as a 10 year user, the reaction is very anomalous. |
bigmonkey |
Sep-14-09 06:37 PM |
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Personally, I think that labor has to take it in its own hands. |
abumbyanyothername |
Sep-13-09 09:12 PM |
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Tariffs, and huge tax penalties on any U.S. company that moves its operations out of the country. |
scarletwoman |
Sep-13-09 09:12 PM |
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+1 |
Raineyb |
Sep-14-09 12:03 PM |
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still wont help you compete much |
Djinn |
Sep-15-09 04:25 AM |
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Mandating automobile purchasing from private companies |
Oregone |
Sep-13-09 09:13 PM |
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We could make everything we need right here at home |
madville |
Sep-13-09 09:15 PM |
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True but the world isn't anything like it ever was before. |
Pangolin2 |
Sep-13-09 09:37 PM |
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I made a post about that once |
Juche |
Sep-13-09 09:19 PM |
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Bingo... |
WCGreen |
Sep-14-09 08:32 AM |
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Several things |
Warpy |
Sep-13-09 09:22 PM |
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That thing about the railroads - |
Mopar151 |
Sep-13-09 10:02 PM |
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There already exists an integrated highway/rail shipping system. |
elleng |
Sep-13-09 10:29 PM |
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The roadbeds need expansion and upgrades |
Warpy |
Sep-13-09 10:36 PM |
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Railroads are in charge of their roadbeds, some do better than others, |
elleng |
Sep-13-09 11:10 PM |
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Part of the problem! |
Mopar151 |
Sep-14-09 09:14 AM |
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Oh yeah, just like the airlines! |
elleng |
Sep-14-09 11:46 AM |
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How hard is it to ship by rail? |
Mopar151 |
Sep-14-09 02:18 PM |
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Sorry that I've never been a 'shipper,' |
elleng |
Sep-14-09 03:43 PM |
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Oil prices high enough to make shipping too expensive. nt |
Speck Tater |
Sep-13-09 09:28 PM |
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US penalizing any company that outsources... |
dbonds |
Sep-13-09 09:34 PM |
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The PTB don't want manufacturing back in this country.... |
wildbilln864 |
Sep-13-09 09:40 PM |
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Not only in money |
Mopar151 |
Sep-13-09 10:04 PM |
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Yep. They want us to become a service economy. |
anonymous171 |
Sep-13-09 10:07 PM |
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Tariff by weight |
izquierdista |
Sep-13-09 09:43 PM |
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Higher petroleum prices |
Canuckistanian |
Sep-13-09 10:25 PM |
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The incentive to bring jobs back to the US can be summed up thusly: |
Stinky The Clown |
Sep-13-09 10:27 PM |
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so all the world has third world wages. then what? |
Hannah Bell |
Sep-14-09 01:42 AM |
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You've misdirected your query |
Stinky The Clown |
Sep-14-09 07:42 AM |
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Fiscal Policy |
Octafish |
Sep-13-09 10:32 PM |
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We could send our government to other countries and they can give the |
mmonk |
Sep-13-09 10:36 PM |
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Stop buying them. |
kentuck |
Sep-13-09 10:36 PM |
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When the dollar becomes so weak that other countries goods are too expensive.... |
debbierlus |
Sep-13-09 10:39 PM |
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Two Very Big Things Could Make A Big Change, madville. |
David Zephyr |
Sep-13-09 10:39 PM |
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Confiscating corporate assets & throwing officers in jail. |
Vidar |
Sep-13-09 10:40 PM |
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lower wages. That's why they leave isn't it? |
cbdo2007 |
Sep-13-09 10:42 PM |
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Outside of a total collapse of manufacturing everywhere else in the world, nothing. |
old mark |
Sep-13-09 11:37 PM |
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Wish I could rec this post of yours! |
TransitJohn |
Sep-14-09 01:05 PM |
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Make outsourcing illegal? |
Initech |
Sep-13-09 11:39 PM |
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The next level++ of applied physics would do well to invite contributions to any innovation... |
bridgit |
Sep-13-09 11:41 PM |
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Stop buying the crap made in China |
Hansel |
Sep-14-09 12:01 AM |
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...15 years ago. |
omega minimo |
Sep-14-09 12:08 AM |
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An end to corporate personhood and corporate welfare and corporate control of elections. |
omega minimo |
Sep-14-09 12:07 AM |
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People giving a shit about where their stuff comes from, coupled with |
flvegan |
Sep-14-09 12:08 AM |
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Nothing. |
Chan790 |
Sep-14-09 12:13 AM |
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High tarrifs would be awesome actually. |
anonymous171 |
Sep-14-09 01:05 AM |
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Except that we lack the majority of raw materials required to produce high-tech devices... |
Chan790 |
Sep-14-09 10:25 AM |
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Stringent rules: For every job created overseas, an equal number must be created here... |
DRoseDARs |
Sep-14-09 12:26 AM |
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Old time tarrifss, like we had for over 200 years |
nadinbrzezinski |
Sep-14-09 12:28 AM |
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Well. let's see now,,,,,,,, |
winyanstaz |
Sep-14-09 12:57 AM |
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Wages suppressed to Chinese levels- 120 dollars a month for factory workers |
kenny blankenship |
Sep-14-09 01:06 AM |
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The answers lay in the direction of the next level,,,we start thinking as a group and look for group |
opihimoimoi |
Sep-14-09 01:28 AM |
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Break everybody's stuff, so they buy more stuff /nt |
jberryhill |
Sep-14-09 01:41 AM |
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bury the dollar, lower our standard of living |
tranche |
Sep-14-09 01:50 AM |
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An act of God/Goddess. nt |
raccoon |
Sep-14-09 08:00 AM |
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Worker-owned shops & cooperatives. n/t |
rucky |
Sep-14-09 08:01 AM |
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Manufacturing is fine in Europe and Canada. Paying high wages is not a problem. |
pampango |
Sep-14-09 08:25 AM |
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Ron Bloom, Obama's totally awsome car czar and manufacturing czar! nt |
HamdenRice |
Sep-14-09 09:33 AM |
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1hr wages? |
endarkenment |
Sep-14-09 09:34 AM |
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Repeal NAFTA |
showpan |
Sep-14-09 10:52 AM |
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........ |
bigwillq |
Sep-14-09 10:57 AM |
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Tax policy rewrite |
n2doc |
Sep-14-09 09:51 AM |
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Agree on a tax policy rewrite, but a return to progressive taxation by itself would help. |
pampango |
Sep-14-09 10:13 AM |
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Make domestic wages partially deductible. |
Xithras |
Sep-14-09 04:01 PM |
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Block all goods from the Chinese Poison Train from entering the country. |
TransitJohn |
Sep-14-09 10:05 AM |
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What brought it here in the first place. |
Gregorian |
Sep-14-09 10:05 AM |
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Turning back the clock is always a popular choice. My favorite would be to clone Mao |
pampango |
Sep-14-09 10:42 AM |
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MicroSoft. |
BuyingThyme |
Sep-14-09 02:19 PM |
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Do what they do in the EU |
sentelle |
Sep-14-09 04:10 PM |
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We need to start enforcing anti-trust laws. |
surrealAmerican |
Sep-14-09 08:07 PM |
#81 |
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