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Originally Posted by The Demon
The problem is, when we moved away from the manufactoring economy and into the service economy, we were dooming a LOT of jobs. Those jobs aren't coming back anytime soon, probably not in our lifetime. We need to decrease the power of unions, we need to start producing again. According to various economic indicators, Americans are slowly beginning to understand that Obama and Bernanke are full of shit, and that our economy is NOT improving but leading towards a double dip depression.
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I agree that we need to start manufactoring things again and unions are a lot of bloat but in my opinion, necessary to some extent. Should people take pay cuts and lose their benefits to bring jobs back here? I don't think they should have to. Look at the clothing industry..in 1995 50% of clothes sold in America were made in America. In 2008 its now 5%. A HUGE drop in just 15 years. Even if people took pay cuts and lost their benefits they still couldnt compete with foreign labor.