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iluvtennis

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10. Corporations have off-shored manufacturing over the last 4 decades. It'll take decades to get it back to the US, if

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 11:18 AM

Apr 2025

it even occurs. The manufacturing plants are currently non existent, so there aren't any places for workers to go.

Guess these MAGAt clowns will have the laid off federal workers do construction jobs to build the manufacturing plants for the corporations - yeah right 🙄.

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