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doc03

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7. With manufacturing killed along with unions

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2019, 02:34 PM

Jun 2019

in the north there is no reason for employers to move south. We are on race to the bottom. When workers in China or Mexico catch up with us, big money will develops Africa.
Remember when everyone was moving jobs to Japan?

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