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Left For Dead in Danville: How Globalism is Killing Working Class America -- Joey Wahoo 07/12/2018 6:20PM
Martinsville's loss of the furniture industry might be even worse...and -- Tuckahokie 07/12/2018 8:03PM My entire family worked there. The towns around that area are dead now. ** -- psychobilly 07/12/2018 9:38PM Let us not forget the furniture industry in North Carolina that is gone ** -- VaTechie 07/12/2018 8:53PM Did we stop making textiles, or just stop employing whole towns to work in -- WahooRQ 07/12/2018 7:26PM Lots of specialty textiles are still made in the US -- Tafkam Hokie 07/12/2018 8:58PM Globalization isn't the grand design of liberal economists. -- hoolstoptheheels 07/12/2018 7:46PM The idea that society is powerless to stop globalization is untrue -- BonsackHoo 07/12/2018 8:14PM Respectfully disagree with some of your key -- fishhoo 07/13/2018 12:36AM Finally had some time to sit down. There is a lot here. -- BonsackHoo 07/15/2018 7:52PM I actually don’t think we disagree too much -- BonsackHoo 07/13/2018 08:26AM More like society would be insane to try to stop globalization. -- hoolstoptheheels 07/12/2018 9:42PM I think we are talking past each other to a degree -- BonsackHoo 07/12/2018 10:06PM Be warned: -- hoolstoptheheels 07/12/2018 10:31PM Well said. -- Joey Wahoo 07/12/2018 8:24PM Last I checked, there was still a party that supports taxing “capital” and -- WahooRQ 07/12/2018 8:54PM How would you propose we tax "capital" more? And if we do tax capital -- BocaHoo91 07/12/2018 10:01PM Your post identified the major problem: capital is mobile while labor -- BonsackHoo 07/12/2018 10:13PM It’s environmental and labor issues (wages etc) far more than taxes -- KCHoo 07/13/2018 12:20AM I don't know... the majority of the countries are in the high teens to -- BocaHoo91 07/12/2018 10:25PM I think you are looking at it to short term. -- BonsackHoo 07/13/2018 06:19AM Thanks. I think of myself as a New Deal Democrat. I hope I did not come -- BonsackHoo 07/12/2018 8:51PM I agree unfortunately I don’t think the dimwits in Congress have a solution ** -- Hoakie82 07/12/2018 8:05PM Partly because there is no such thing as some absolute -- fishhoo 07/12/2018 8:25PM Assuming the free trade is fair trade but I don’t think that is what we’ve -- Hoakie82 07/12/2018 9:00PM Americans,given freedom of choice, chose cheaper textiles. Should we have -- Hoo82 07/12/2018 7:37PM Guy blew it in the very first sentence, when he said Danville was in the -- JMHoo 07/12/2018 7:10PM I'm not sure NAFTA killed Danville's textile industry -- BocaHoo91 07/12/2018 6:59PM Manufacturers will locate where the cost of production is lowest -- Joey Wahoo 07/12/2018 7:47PM I think in this specific case, cost of environmental regulation -- Tafkam Hokie 07/12/2018 9:05PM Also ships got bigger that could carry a ton more cotton -- VaTechie 07/12/2018 8:50PM Ugh. I keep forgetting the less than sign must trigger some sort of HTML -- BocaHoo91 07/12/2018 7:10PM Yes, textiles went down hill in the late seventies and early eighties. -- VaTechie 07/12/2018 7:06PM Bruce was singing about it in 1984 -- wahoo138 07/12/2018 7:39PM And Bob in '63. -- Shenhoo 07/12/2018 8:46PM I would wager that industries have come and gone in the US -- KCHoo 07/12/2018 9:18PM Lots have. And towns/areas have boomed and declined too. It is part of -- WahooRQ 07/13/2018 12:42AM Taking the long view can be hard to do... -- Joey Wahoo 07/12/2018 9:40PM North Dakota has a robust -- Shenhoo 07/12/2018 10:18PM The Brain Drain -- Joey Wahoo 07/13/2018 06:09AM According to this, the notion of brain drain is not backed by evidence -- Faz d. Hoo 07/13/2018 1:32PM Not his children / grandchildren, someone else's children / grandchildren -- Faz d. Hoo 07/12/2018 9:47PM It could be his grandchildren. Those communities lose their young people -- KCHoo 07/12/2018 9:59PM Hey Shen check out this peach I picked today. -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/12/2018 8:55PM Wow! Ours are weeks away, I'd judge. Fwiw, the elberta's fruit looks -- Shenhoo 07/12/2018 9:02PM I may have to plant a few elberta’s for my more senior customers. Lol ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/12/2018 9:06PM
