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bossy22

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6. The larger economy in the group is always the loser
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 07:15 PM
Jan 2014

Look at it this way- We have a 17 trillion dollar economy, and the combined economies of all those countries is 1.7 trillion. Essentially we just traded our advantage in a 17 trillion market for an advantage in a market 1/10th its size. Sounds like someone got the short end of the stick doesnt it?

The fact is that there are very few good paying careers out there that don't require you to go into $200,000 debt before you can land a job. Manufacturing is one of them. Yes, we will re-train workers, but i doubt their new jobs are going to pay anything like their old ones. The factory worker is getting replaced by the fast food worker.

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