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American Ruins: Gary's Once and Future Terminal.
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[quote user="Modelcar"]<p><font size="4"> What can we start to do to reverse this situation...</font></p><p>[/quote]</p><p> </p><p>Put people back to work. In jobs that pay more than a walmart greeter.</p><p> </p><p>Instead of paying money to lower the cost of importing manufactured goods (deepening harbors , raising bridges, and making tunnels doublestack friendly, etc) we should be passing import tariffs that make local manufacturing look attractive by comparison.</p><p>As the greatest consumer economy on the planet, we can make out just servicing our own demand.</p><p>The hitch being that said tariffs would honk off a number of foreign countries that would reciprocate, and pass tariffs targeting the few big remaining american made exports. Which really boils down to large medical instruments, and a handful of other items. Which are big money for the few companies producing them<br /> </p><p>SO there are some decisions to be made. For instance would GE be happy building refrigerators in America once again, selling to American consumers, and give up on the idea of selling $6 milliion dollar MRI machines abroad?</p><p> Personally, I think a greater common good is served in so doing. Put a chicken back in every pot, instead of a turkey only in the pantry of GE stockholders<br /> </p>
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