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2024-01-04 Economy

The silent death by a thousand cuts in manufacturing

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-04 00:58|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1806 views ] Top

This is a solemn process that has happened across this country for the past 40 years

The other Geo Soros.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-04 01:04|| 2024-01-04 01:04|| Front Page Top

2 Blame Unions, Eviromentals, and MBAs.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-04 01:09|| 2024-01-04 01:09|| Front Page Top

3 Blame...

On this day in history, January 4, 1965, LBJ touts utopian 'Great Society' in State of the Union address

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-04 01:26|| 2024-01-04 01:26|| Front Page Top

4 I agree with Grom in #2. However, scanning the article, I see -

Assembly lines, technology, computers, artificial intelligence, or cheaper labor overseas have all contributed to the devaluation of the skill sets of the men and women who have carved out the American dream working in manufacturing. Those same entities have enabled manufacturing output to soar as manufacturing employment has cratered.

Posted by Bobby 2024-01-04 08:51|| 2024-01-04 08:51|| Front Page Top

5 #3: LBJ. 'great society'. 'affirmative action'. the gifts that keep on giving.

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-01-04 14:13|| 2024-01-04 14:13|| Front Page Top

6 The coming dust up with China will bring much of it back home. Tennis shoes will end up in Vietnam, but the stuff that’s really needed will come back home when we are forced to do without it. At that point sanity will return.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-01-04 15:57|| 2024-01-04 15:57|| Front Page Top

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