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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (57146)10/5/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>>We are importing PhDs Zoltan, not manufacturing labor. The old manufacturing workforce has been relegated to service industry jobs at minimum wage.

Minimum really doesn't apply in most places and is normally for a short duration. The vast majority of workers that we are "importing" are not PhD's, unless of coarse they are the ones running across the borders and disappearing at airports.

>>But anyway, I'm a free market person myself, if you recall the original point was, "Did Reagan know what was going on". Imo, well, sort of, but they couldn't handle the Japanese, they were just hoping everything worked out ok, and it did

The Reagan administration saved the US semiconductor industry and forced (along with currency flutuations)the Japanese to move their US bound auto production here. Honda makes more cars in the US than Japan.
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