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ProfessorGAC

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23. Boy Do We Disagree

Reply to melm00se (Reply #19)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:18 AM

Dec 2016

If the "logic" says unions impel a flow of labor supply overseas, it would be ever so, at least in the age of modern transportation. And Mexico has shared a border with the US for about 800 million years.

Aside from roads and electrical infrastructure, there are no social or technological conditions that would have not driven jobs offshore.

What really happened is that those things you describe created global competition and a flow of imports that our "strategic" thinkers underestimated in the 50's and 60's. By the time the late 70's came along, the ship had sailed and "labor" was the root of all our problems.

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