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   dtroutma said, 4 months ago

   The problems and solutions ARE in our hands.

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   oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

   LOL!!!
   We can’t have it both ways.
   You want your cheap ¢r@p .
   or what????
   I think most people don’t give a $h¡t

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   hank197857 said, 4 months ago

   we could easily lift ourselves out of this recession and solve our immigration challenges at the same time. mexico can easily do the manufacturing that china does for us. when that happens, americans might even decide to relocate south of the border.

   moreover, we won’t be financing china’s military buildup either. that’s one war, in particular, i don’t look forward to fighting.

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   Gladius said, 4 months ago

   Mexico used to do many of the jobs done in China. It got cheaper, even with transport costs, to have the Chinese do them. There is still manufacturing done for the U.S. just over the borders in what remains of the maquiladoras.

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   HUMPHRIES said, 4 months ago

   oldie, your presentation could use some polishing up … but your content is spot on.

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   cdward said, 4 months ago

   oldie and hump, agreed. We’re addicted to cheap.

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   cabrobst said, 4 months ago

   We need our lead-painted toys!

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   NoFearPup said, 4 months ago

   No, we needed the sucker’s money.

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   cdward said, 4 months ago

   Either way you look at it, if we don’t change our profligate ways, we’re up the proverbial creek.

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    oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

    Thank you Hump and cdward…W/O your stabilizing presents I got mean
    Return to Auth< for more takes.

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    nomad2112 said, 4 months ago

    It’s simple. Just require importing countries / manufactures meet the same environmental, health, and safety requirements that are required of those operating in the U.S. Once that’s done it won’t be as cost effective to export jobs (and pollution) to those countries.

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    Right_On said, 4 months ago

    nomad says: “It’s simple. Just require importing countries / manufactures meet the same environmental, health, and safety requirements that are required of those operating in the U.S. Once that’s done it won’t be as cost effective to export jobs (and pollution) to those countries.”

    And products will then cost so much more than we do now, we will have to print more money so we can pay for them. Yay!

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    fennec said, 4 months ago

    Or maybe we will just have to learn to get along with less stuff. IMHO, we overconsume to the point of the obcene.

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    nomad2112 said, 4 months ago

    Right_On - so we should just keep the status quo and keep exporting our jobs and pollution?

    It won’t matter what the products cost when no one is working.