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President Bush's new manufacturing policy is doomed

Thursday, Sep. 04, 2003 at 9:32 AM

moneybox@slate.com

So long as manufacturing executives seek labor arbitrage opportunities, employing U.S. blue-collar workers will be expensive. (American workers, after all, expect such niceties as pensions and health care.)

President Bush's new manufacturing policy is doomed.

Daniel Gross, Slate, September 2, 2003

"I want you to understand that I understand that Ohio manufacturers are hurting, that there's a problem with the manufacturing sector," the president told a union gathering in Ohio on Labor Day. "We've lost thousands of jobs in manufacturing."

The truth is we've lost more like thousands of thousands of job

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So in the end what do we export?	Bude Adrian	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 12:10 AM
It is obvious what we build, stupid!	Hex anon w/ encryption	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 12:19 AM
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25 pins and wires?	You really do that	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 1:43 AM
I live in a "nest of wires"	Hex anon w/ encryption	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 1:56 AM
not 25 then???	Oh...	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 2:08 AM
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Who the hell uses a RS-232 cable now?	LMAO	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 2:52 AM
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Big whoop	the architect	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 10:50 AM
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paste?	the architect	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 11:00 AM
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take me to the ball game	Hex anon w/ encryption	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 6:46 PM
i think your missing the point	what a nerd	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 6:46 PM
NERDS !	Hex anon w/ encryption	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 6:57 PM
nerd stuff	the bro	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 7:16 PM
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nerd stuff	the bro	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 7:18 PM
Nerd info	Toby	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 7:33 PM
more proof for the pot	nerd slayer	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 7:34 PM
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Nerd info	Toby	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 8:17 PM
I should become a lying asshole like you ?	Hex anon w/ encryption	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 8:55 PM
and then I began to run...	Forrest Gump	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 9:17 PM
You should be a fiction writer	Hex anon w/ encryption	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 9:35 PM
1.)hard-earned money. How you make or acquire the money is important. The target of my a	uncomfortably revealing shorts,	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 10:02 PM
obsession	Hex anon w/ encryption	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 10:21 PM
ROFLMAO	Capn Dan	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 11:10 PM
Then you need to laugh more often	Hex anon w/ encryption	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 11:34 PM
Don't we all?	Charlie Chaplin	Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2003 at 11:44 PM
Eagles dare	Todworth VonHilldabrand	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 3:18 AM
Eagles dare	Todworth VonHilldabrand	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 3:20 AM
"let this poor nerd be"	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 7:44 AM
Silly posts	Larry McJihad	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 4:57 PM
Because I didn't want people to think I looked like this;	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:14 PM
Larry McJihad	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:14 PM
"do we have something more interesting to argue?"	smashtheleft	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:19 PM
Hex Anon	Larry	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:24 PM
Larry	anon	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:27 PM
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I decline to specify	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:33 PM
i tnink we got off on the wrong foot	nerd lover	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:37 PM
established already	FBI	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:39 PM
Beotches	KOBE HQ	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:43 PM
haha don't go for the bar exam just yet	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 5:44 PM
"blue boxes aren't illegal"	captain crunch	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:01 PM
So what hex is saying...	(parenthesis)	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:06 PM
"captain crunch"	anti-smashtheleft	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:07 PM
anti-smashtheleft	Agent "B"	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:11 PM
Agent "B" the MORON	KOBE HQ	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:14 PM
anti-smashtheleft	Agent "B"	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:17 PM
anti-smashtheleft	Agent "B"	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:20 PM
Agent "B" the MORON	KOBE HQ	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:21 PM
Agent "B"	anti-smashtheleft	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:26 PM
clueless to the end	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:28 PM
what?	Larry	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:30 PM
woa woa woa	you must be lost	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:32 PM
who is "me" ?	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:34 PM
worse-than-nerds-wannbes	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:40 PM
^	KOBE SBM	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 6:43 PM
spoofing	larry	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 7:00 PM
ummm	larry	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 7:02 PM
lazy larry	KOBE HQ	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 7:03 PM
spoofing has a price	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 7:10 PM
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posting personal information	Sheepdog	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 7:59 PM
info	Larry	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 8:11 PM
Where else do you post ?	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 8:32 PM
ok here we go	larry	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 8:54 PM
agreed	larry	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 8:56 PM
A proven method of taking out trolls	Hex anon w/ encryption	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 9:16 PM
Speak Out 2004: Dean Speaks Out on Middle East	Arab American Institute	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 9:54 PM
^^^^^^^off topic^^^^^^^^	moderator help please	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 10:25 PM
^^^^^^^off topic^^^^^^^^	moderator help please	Thursday, Sep. 11, 2003 at 10:28 PM
post	Larry	Friday, Sep. 12, 2003 at 12:00 AM
browns	Larry	Friday, Sep. 12, 2003 at 12:05 AM
Yeah!	smashtheleft	Friday, Sep. 12, 2003 at 8:21 PM

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