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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:23 PM Original message |
"For the first time since data has been kept, manufacturing is less than 10 percent of employment." |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. Grammer-Cop Time |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. You are correct in a prescriptive grammarian sense with which I sympathize, |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Spelling-Cop time: Grammar. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. Happens every time. |
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Donk Yore (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sad and very clear news with obvious implications. n/t |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. don't i know it. |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:50 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Your town is a fantastic place to be, |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 12:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. yeah, they are all condos now. |
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Fredda Weinberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
6. You're not going to reverse globalization |
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FogerRox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 12:38 AM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Globalism has been reversed everytime its gets a toe hold over 400 years |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. So is the largest industry the service industry? |
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ThoughtCriminal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. Remember when the WH wanted to count fast food... |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-01-08 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
10. And here I am |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 12:00 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. it takes 7-10 years to master a sock making machine |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 12:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Less than that to hand-knit them. |
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water (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
12. Not necessarily a bad thing, actually. |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 12:21 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. It's a terrible thing. |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 12:30 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Yeah it's like the WW2 vet that said this. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
16. Loss of manufacturing jobs has undercut blue collar America. |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
20. What I wonder is this: what about war? |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
21. We make nothing yet buy, buy, buy. The downfall of this nation. |
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