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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:36 AM,  <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:
>   You have clothes on your back and shoes on your feet that
> were not made in this country, you use tools that were not forged here.
> Every repair you do on your place is with fasteners that were made abroad 
> (I know
> this because there are no Nail and almost no screw operations left in the 
> us,
> and none of those are sold at Lowes)  My list could go on and on.

You are absolutely right that we have little manufacturing in this
country. What would you propose to restore the manufacturing base? I
don't see a way other than tariffs, which would have the possibility
of protecting industries that could not at the time compete on the
world market, but how do you allow a company to innovate otherwise in
this global economy?

You've gone back to an agrarian economy, but that's not possible for
the majority.

Marie