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In reply to the discussion: Europe's big guns warn Greek voters that a no vote means euro exit [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)You should see the sidewalks in LA. Not enough money to keep them up.
And our schools? The bathrooms in some of our schools are shameful?
Lots of new houses are being built. I personally think that the balance between our private sector which builds and produces a lot of stuff that we don't need and our public sector which we all use but which is in disrepair is out of whack. We need both - - a strong private and a strong public sector.
What are we manufacturing? Certainly not consumer goods. Not fabrics. Food, I guess, but that is not manufacturing. Airplanes? Some. Do we produce computers? I am unaware of it. We produce some cars, but we import many and you can't tell where the cars are made sometimes, so who knows?
What are we producing other than military equipment? Telephones? Furniture? (Very little.) Clothing? Household appliances? (Most seem to be imported.)
I don't see the Made in the USA tags very often. What are we producing if our manufacturing is going up?
And if our manufacturing is rising, why is our trade deficit so extremely negative?
Sorry. But I find it hard to trust the statistics you refer to. If it walks like a duck, it's a duck. I know almost no one who works in manufacturing and I live in a working class neighborhood. So where is all this manufacturing and what are they producing?