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Old 06-23-2008, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Chan View Post
We are a nation of consumers, not producers. We will continue to consume more and more, produce less and less and try to find ways to create "jobs" for people to do just so that we can maintain an unemployment level of less than 10 percent. All the while, we will be hostage to producer nations like China and India.
we didn't used to be... we used to make all our products and we looked down upon products made in other countries... do you remember when made in japan had the same connotation as made in china has today?
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