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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"C Montgomery" Ross: Coronavirus will accelerate return of American jobs from China
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Aaron Rupar ✔ @atrupar
Secretary Wilbur Ross says coronavirus will be good for [checks notes] American jobs: "I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America."
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7:47 AM - Jan 30, 2020
Um...
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Stupid sob is probably completely ignorant of the Spanish flu epidemic.
tanyev
(42,541 posts)Not an actual quote, and
GeorgeGist
(25,318 posts)serve the dead and dying.
superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)Not J
Sorry to be a prickly pear fictional character purist
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Brain fart - thanks!
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Is going to be very expensive.
Butterflylady
(3,541 posts)To get those jobs for Americans. What a horrible human being.
C_U_L8R
(44,996 posts)Clearly humans aren't allowed to be republicans. They masturbate to visions for a great culling where they supposedly arise as overlords.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)It would take years to pull back manufacturing into the US. By then this virus will have been forgotten about.
LeftInTX
(25,209 posts)I can't even remember what happened to SARS...
appalachiablue
(41,113 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,181 posts).
You're pushing people to go to China for cheap things, by using dollar stores and Asian nation imports.
As people scratch for dollars, they use online discount sales, which causes local stores to collapse lowering the local economy further and causing blight in the areas, as more and more people are forced into searching for cheap alternatives to meet their needs.
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Moral Compass
(1,516 posts)Trump has gathered around himself a coterie of the extremely wealthy. Each day their public utterances give us a window into their nihilistic vision of the world. Mnuchin, Carson, Ross care nothing for the teeming massescitizen and non-citizen alike.
This is what Jesus spoke when he said it is easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god...
Im not religious, but Ive always felt that the New Testament carries some important lessons that are rarely paid attention to.
Lo, witness the banality of evil.
malaise
(268,856 posts)back to normal by around Feb 9.
On the other hand, the panic has been a nice distraction from the Con's Impeachment Trial