I just had to know what you'd come back with! Now I'm wondering if the absence of further comment is in fact your comment...

Where are my manners?

It was big drama, even called up Apple. For some reason they've reduced the price of a one month support plan to about a third, which was nice.

Did you hear the announcement last night at the SOTU by Obama that Apple is moving production back to the USA?

Last year Obama was reported to have talked to Steve Jobs before he died, asking him what Obama could to do get them to move manufacturing back here. But the response back then was that they couldn't.

Because of long-term contracts, was my guess. I'd heard rumors late last year it was happening, but now it's official. So Obama didn't quit working behind the scenes and he probably won't get any more credit for this than any of the other jobs he's brought back.

Obama's work on building education and bringing good paying manufacturing back is paying off. And the new CEO of Apple, Tim Cook was invited to the WH fiscal cliff talks and also to the SOTU:



Tim Cook: Steve Jobs told me to 'just do what's right'

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57557495-37/tim-cook-steve-jobs-told-me-to-just-do-whats-right/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014396449

It's frustrating how many people have been willing to write off/discard American manufacturing. I've read and heard people saying things like "those jobs aren't coming back." A significant counter-example is useful and most welcome.

I used to be a republican when I was younger with less life experience, and I can sum it up in a reasonably condensed manner.

Basically they push the notion of: What's good for capital ( businesses or monied people ) is good for you. Supply side bullshit. Now if large swaths of people have come to find empirical evidence to the contrary ( or never bought the theory from the outset ) then they push the idea of solidarity of culture: "God & Guns" and other social issues, all coagulated around some notion of "rugged individualism".

That's pretty much it.

people get drawn in to that thinking if only we would stop giving stuff to some there would be so much for them instead.
That is why they always vote against what is best for them because they refuse to believe that what is best for all is really going to help them.
They rather it be dog eat dog.

If everyone does what is predictable, you can control your environment - if you are a white man. Many white women will think they get secondary benefit from this.

But as long as there's someone else to beat up on...

And there are conservatives of other races, so maybe that comment was too broad. It's the certainty of everyone being "in their place" and adhering to customs, religion, and the predictability that can seem to create.