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patrice

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8. "few productive ways to invest that money" . . . in the existing paradigm? i.e. capitalism?

Reply to sendero (Reply #6)

Sat May 5, 2012, 10:30 AM

May 2012

Is it even really possible to get those manufacturing jobs back?

or - e.g. CAN American Information Technology be American again?

We have been hollowed out. How is it even possible to actually fix that? Isn't everything just a bandage, unless you change the fundamentals?

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As my long running sitnature suggests.. sendero May 2012 #6

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