Ed Snowden: Leakers “should be shot in the balls,” and "cut this Social Security bullshit"

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173. I found a post by him from 2006

TheTrueHOOHA
Ars Scholae Palatinae
Registered: Dec 29, 2001
Posts: 773
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:53 am
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"Buying American" doesn't work because the end result is nothing more than increased cost.

The solution to our problems lie in finding markets for what Americans can do better and cheaper than anybody else. We're too stubborn to stop trying to prop up our 'old world' manufacturing and labor-intensive businesses and start dominating things like biotechnology.


This is the most interesting point I've seen raised in the entire thread so far, especially when you compare it to the vacuous bitching on unions. It highlights the short-sighted economic interest of America as both a country and a people, and I'm genuinely interested in seeing whether we'll find our "next big thing," or if we're already too far gone into the plunder and burn mentality of maximizing our next paycheck at the expense of long term prosperity. Reading this thread, it already feel a little bit like the goose with the golden egg.

Can't we at least build a better battery or something?





radical little bastard

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