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On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:57:49 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:13:31 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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There will be no meaningful recovery until we find a way to replace
all the jobs that we have sent offshore.


Not sure I agree with the "replace all" comment, but I do certainly
agree
with the rest of the statement.


I am not sure why you disagree with "all" unless you mean "all plus
the new kids entering the market".
Our economy has been based on the middle class having good jobs. We
really have to start making things here again.
Maybe we should have a telethon to collect money to rebuild the US
infrastructure after we are done in Haiti..



If you use a term such as "all" or "every" it's almost always wrong.
Some
jobs won't be replaced.

I agree a lot of auto workers are not going to be making cars but they
could be making other things. I believe wind energy is a boondoggle
but if people are willing to do it, it is not a bad place for factory
workers to work. There are plenty of things we need in the
infrastructure area. We just need to talk people into paying for it.

The roads and bridges are fine, and the dollar for dollar return in
products is not as good when spent on highway maintenance as it would be
in a decent sock factory. It's not the infrastructure that is holding
back our manufacturing. It's the Un..... well, either way, we need to
address the things that are killing the manufacturing base.

Old instructor told me long ago, don't bother with the bee, go for the
stinger...

Scotty, we need to go for the stinger.


The roads and bridges are dandy, until they collapse. Infrastructure is one
of the things we really need to work on in this country.

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"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
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"I am Tosk" wrote in message
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The roads and bridges are fine, and the dollar for dollar return in
products is not as good when spent on highway maintenance as it would be
in a decent sock factory. It's not the infrastructure that is holding
back our manufacturing. It's the Un..... well, either way, we need to
address the things that are killing the manufacturing base.

Old instructor told me long ago, don't bother with the bee, go for the
stinger...

Scotty, we need to go for the stinger.


The roads and bridges are dandy, until they collapse. Infrastructure is
one of the things we really need to work on in this country.


The reason they haven't been is .... no money. An otherwise healthy
business climate must
exist generating tax revenues is needed to pay for fixing the roads a
bridges. A healthy
business climate is something we don't have.

On 25/01/2010 4:06 AM, Eisboch wrote:
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"I am wrote in message
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The roads and bridges are fine, and the dollar for dollar return in
products is not as good when spent on highway maintenance as it would be
in a decent sock factory. It's not the infrastructure that is holding
back our manufacturing. It's the Un..... well, either way, we need to
address the things that are killing the manufacturing base.

Old instructor told me long ago, don't bother with the bee, go for the
stinger...

Scotty, we need to go for the stinger.


The roads and bridges are dandy, until they collapse. Infrastructure is
one of the things we really need to work on in this country.


The reason they haven't been is .... no money. An otherwise healthy
business climate must
exist generating tax revenues is needed to pay for fixing the roads a
bridges. A healthy
business climate is something we don't have.

Agreed. From a pure divident point of view, the risk/reward isn't there
fo 9/10 companies. Serious problem going forward.

If government could generate wealth, we would all be working for
government. But someone has to do the work.