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8. Not killing it everywhere. The developed countries are already saturated with product,

Reply to rhett o rick (Reply #6)

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 11:30 PM

Jan 2013

so now there will be a turn around. The corps have new customers in the Middle East and Far East. So they'll develop them and down grade us. It's the switcharoo. We'll be the new cheap labor and China and India and DuBai will be the elite countries.

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