Dixie - In Memoriam
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#8 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. Approximately 75 percent of those factories employed at least 500 workers while they were still in operation.
#9 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.
#10 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/wall-worry-redux-24-statistics-demonstrating-americas-decline
You wingnuts really don't get it do you.
30 yrs of conservative 'free market' ideology has driven this country to the brink of disaster.
Your 'socialism' fears are based on the corporate propaganda that is responsible for your stupidity.
We get it.... YOU don't! Union Labor and Collective Bargaining have driven the manufacturing sector completely out of this country. This began happening long before the eight years of Reagan, which incidentally, are the ONLY eight years in American history supply-side economic strategies have been tried. It resulted in nearly 30 years of prosperity and economic growth, in spite of dismantling policies from every administration to follow.
You Libtards like to lump Bush Sr. and GW in with Ronnie, as a supply-sider, but that is completely inaccurate. H.W. Bush was NOT a supply-sider, in fact, he coined the phrase "Voodoo Economics" to describe the philosophy, and his son knew even less about it.