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   From: esp@snet.n   
      
   On 9/11/2024 6:01 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:   
   > In article , esp@snet.n says...   
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   >> Are we willing to pay for those jobs? Remember when Dad worked in the   
   >> factory and made enough to support a family and buy a modest house?  We   
   >> can't do that and have cheap appliances.   
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   > Ask those 1000 workers from John Deere if they want a job.  In a town   
   > near me there were several factories called Cannon Mills.  It employed   
   > thousands of workers in that town.  It is gone.  I retired from a   
   > company that made raw polyester.  It employed about 3000 people.  It   
   > went out of business several years ago.  Ask any of those workers if   
   > they wanted a job or cheap goods.  That company paid very well for   
   > basically unskilled or very low skill jobs.  More for the skilled jobs.   
      
   Wrong question.  Ask the farmers if they will pay $$$ more for a US made   
   John Deere.  If yes, the workers keep their jobs, if no, they are gone.   
   That has happened many times in the past few decades.  The consumer   
   likes cheap goods.  What do you suggest we do to convince people to   
   spend more for the same item?   
      
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