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seabeckind

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14. "no raw materials supply to speak of"
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 10:30 AM
Dec 2013

I realized I need a little clarification here.

It is true we have a raw materials supply for textiles in the US, as I point out below. The difficulty is that the materials flow is built upon exports. Our own industry has to bid against our own corporation to obtain that raw material.

It's not a level playing field. Rather than a policy that says that first right of refusal goes to a domestic American industry it is controlled by the corporation.

And oftentimes aided and abetted by those inserted by the corporation into our own political system. States competing with states to provide the cheapest labor, facilities, and raw materials to an entity that serves a different master with different goals than the welfare of our people.

Way past time to decide who really runs the place.

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