People Turbines!
> Yuo're speaking from what pespective here, Larry? I'm speaking as a
> person who lives down here in the US South where manufacturing jobs
> are disappearing at an astonishing rate. Just yesterday there was a
> another notice of a plant closing. We've had about 5 democratic
> presidental candidates visit Georgetown, SC, a small city just to the
> south of Myrtle Beach that lost its 40 year old Steel Mill last month.
> Plants all over NC and SC are gone.
>
> While I don't think that manufacturing jobs are the key to a
> propersous future for the US, these are jobs that lower-educated
> American citizens need to stay afloat. I don't believe that everyone
> is capable of becoming educated enough to survive in an information
> society.
>
> - Matt Small
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Larry C. Lyons
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:16 PM
> Subject: Re: US Deficit a threat to the world economy IMF
>
>
> At 11:28 AM 1/8/2004, you wrote:
> >I will also say that I think that NAFTA (A Clinton and Republican
> joint
> >effort) is a miserable failure for those people on the low end of the
>
> >financial spectrum. Ross Perot got it right when he said: "That loud
>
> >whooshing noise is coming from Mexico sucking up all of our
> manufacturing
> >jobs."
>
> \NAFTA did show some benefits. look at the employment and economic
> growth
> figures of Canada. Originally critics accused the current Canadian
> government who signed the agreement with caving into US demands. It
> would
> appear that the Canadians managed to outfox both Mexico and the US.
>
> larry
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