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[quote user="Phoebe Vet"]   <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> dakotafred:</div> <div>   This will be a fair test of whether we can build anything in the United States anymore.   </div> </blockquote>   That is the most profound statement I have seen since the Reagan Administration.  I agree completely. [/quote] How about the Boeing 747-8?  What about the Boeing 787?   How about some of the best drilling equipment in the world that is unlocking hard to reach oil and gas in the United States, thereby greatly reducing the country's dependence on foreign oil. What about some of the world's best medical equipment, which has been instrumental in improving the quality of our lives and extending them to boot so that a bunch of geezers can rail (no pun intended) about how everything is going in the ditch.   How about all the products produced by Apple Inc.(iphone, ipod, ipad), Cisco Systems, Intel, HP, as well as the software ginned out by Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe?  And don't forget the e-readers produced by Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Admittedly some of the computer stuff is made off shore, but the ideas and designs are pure American. Closer to home, i.e. transportation, what about the magnificent locomotives built by GE.  Oh, did I mention it in another post, GE is opening a locomotive assembly plant in lowly Texas (in the minds of some).  We call it Fort Worth; the natives call it Cow Town. Don't overlook the rebuilding of I-35 from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. It is being done by American engineers and workers armed for the most part with American built equipment.  Better yet, if some of the Texas's critics decide to come to the Lone Star state, be sure to take a ride on TX 130. It is a new highway designed and built by Americans in record time that allows you to by-pass Austin at a legal 80 mph.
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