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Your Special Friend wrote:
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> http://thekansan.com/stories/013004/vie_0130040039.shtml
> 
> Exporting U.S. jobs
> 
> Former textile worker, Jimmy, of North Carolina, laments, "We were
> middle class." Now he is among the 6,500 employees of the Pillowtex
> towel factory laid off in August 2003. Just two years ago, Jimmy and
> his wife bought a modest home, believing their combined wages would
> support them comfortably. Today, like many of their former co-workers,
> Jimmy and his wife both work part-time and have sold many of their
> goods to try and get by. Thousands of other former Pillowtex workers
> are facing foreclosures, eviction notices and car repos, making
> difficult choices about which utilities to turn off.
> 
> The Pillowtex closing was an event akin to a natural disaster. But it
> wasn't an act of nature that shut down the plant. Rather, the firm was
> overwhelmed by a flood of imports from China, resulting in the largest
> one-day layoff in the history of North Carolina. The Pillowtex closing
> dramatically portrays the devastation being wrought throughout
> America's manufacturing power by Communist China.
> 
> Manufacturing businesses, from electronics to fishing lures, are
> closing their doors in deference to Chinese imports. Three members of
> the president's cabinet on a cross-country jaunt to promote the Bush
> economic plan have encountered an earful from angry businesspeople. A
> spokesman of the Textile Manufacturers points out, "as textiles from
> China, India, Pakistan and Vietnam flood the American market, people
> are losing jobs faster than you can count. China dominates the
> market."
> 
> Ironically, China came in and purchased looms and other machinery from
> Pillowtex, crating and shipping them to China.
> 
> As a CEO of a closed furniture factory stated, "trying to stay in
> business, we asked our employees to be more productive, more
> efficient, even take pay cuts. The employees stepped up and done all
> we asked, but we could not compete with the imports. I feel like we
> let these folks down. It's unlike anything I've seen in my years in
> the industry. Plants have closed, people sent home; it's hard to say,
> three, four, five years what industry will look like in America. I
> think that at some point, this country has to think about what's best
> for us. We run a risk in any industry that we let leave this country."
> 
> The effects of job losses go well beyond the individual who lost the
> job. Each time a factory shuts down, it has a ripple effect on the
> economy and the wages of other workers in America. In other words, we
> accelerate our "race to the bottom."
> 
> The erosion of the U.S. industrial base has "enormous national
> security implications," reports National Defense Magazine (August
> 2003). The United States is so dependent on foreign countries for
> critical components and systems that we may have lost our control of
> our supply. We are now dependent on countries such as China, India,
> Russia, France and Germany for critical weapons technology. For
> America to be dependent on these nations is risky at best.
> 
> A very glaring local example is "Boeing to create jobs in South Korea"
> (Kansan, April 2002). Boeing has a contract to make 40 F-I5 fighter
> jets, the first-line fighter of the U.S. Air Force, and will build a
> plant in South Korea, employing 30,000 workers to manufacture them.
> Boeing also states that any future orders of F-1 5's will see
> manufacture in the South Korea plant.
> 
> Our nation's manufacturing power has been the gateway to the middle
> class for untold millions of American's, resulting in unprecedented
> national prosperity. Asked to comment on America's grim economic
> prospects, an observer declared, "I see an America where the middle
> class declines to near-subsistence living. It's here already".
> 
> As I listened to President Bush in his State of the Union speech say,
> "the economy is strong and growing stronger, and jobs are on the
> rise," I could not help but agree with Joe Leiberman, who the next day
> said, "This president is living in a dream world."
> 
> Anton Epp, Goessel


America is on a suicide run. Without industry as its backbone the
world's great political experiment in the mixings of people living in
one nation will die a rapid death. Just how stupid have the people
become who run America? We've become dependent on some of our enemies to
remain strong? Even retards know better.