View Poll Results: What can Americans make?

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  • Green cars (we have the car factories)

    1 9.09%
  • Clothes for obese people (we have the models)

    0 0%
  • Pornography (a growing industry in the country)

    7 63.64%
  • Bongs, pipes (manufacturing jobs for drug felons)

    0 0%
  • CliffNotes, SparkNotes (lord knows, we don't read)

    0 0%
  • Eh, there's nothing we can't fuck up somehow

    3 27.27%
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    The American economy has plummeted in part because Americans don't make anything any more. What can Americans make again; what can we export around the world and show off American skill again?

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    We can make anything. The problem is, our fellow Americans enjoy a standard of living that can't be sustained by factory labor wages. So, they unionize and then wonder why they can't compete with the Chinese.

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    i don't think its so much that we don't make, its that we don't make our own anymore, we buy cheaper and choose quan y over quality.

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    We can make anything. The problem is, our fellow Americans enjoy a standard of living that can't be sustained by factory labor wages. So, they unionize and then wonder why they can't compete with the Chinese.
    or companies move offshore to pay workers a dollar a day to make stuff...

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    12-13% of the whole labor force is the whole problem, and most of them work for the government. Oversimplify much, Darrin?

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    or companies move offshore to pay workers a dollar a day to make stuff...
    Duh!

    Next time you make a call on your iPhone, you can thank some Chinese kid who, hopefully, hasn't committed suicide. Luckily, they installed suicide nets at Foxconn. There's no App for that.

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    keep asking questions George Gervin's Afro's Avatar
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    Duh!

    Next time you make a call on your iPhone, you can thank some Chinese kid who, hopefully, hasn't committed suicide. Luckily, they installed suicide nets at Foxconn. There's no App for that.
    so you are wrong again!!!!!

    So are american factory workers supposed to work for a dollar a day dumbass?

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    Americans can make Happy Meals.

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    so you are wrong again!!!!!

    So are american factory workers supposed to work for a dollar a day dumbass?

    Why does liberal, Steve Jobs, have his iPhones made in China? Because he hates America? No.

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    so i guess my question is, would you pay another 100 for that iphone just to know it was made in america?

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    so i guess my question is, would you pay another 100 for that iphone just to know it was made in america?

    There is really only one goal of a business.

    Can anyone tell me what that goal is?

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    Back in the 90s, Americans were sold that our future production was going to be based on producing ideas and innovation. We didn't need to produce knick knacks like China because we were above that. The problem is we don't run our education system as though that is the case.

    Sometimes the truth simply boils down to that you can't stay on top forever. All systems move toward an equilibrium.

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    There is really only one goal of a business.

    Can anyone tell me what that goal is?
    To make money. So why the do you advocate workers take less than they can get? Are they not in business?

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    Darrin thinks the only ones in business are the corporations. Perhaps he needs a youtube to explain things to him.

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    To make money. So why the do you advocate workers take less than they can get? Are they not in business?

    When did I say that? Is a certain standard of living in our Bill of Rights?

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    Darrin thinks the only ones in business are the corporations. Perhaps he needs a youtube to explain things to him.

    Maybe a meteorology student can explain it to me.

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    When did I say that? Is a certain standard of living in our Bill of Rights?
    Did they get some type of cons utionally protected wage?

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    Maybe a meteorology student can explain it to me.
    I guess I miss the humor here. Anyone want to explain it to me?

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    Are union jobs the only ones being shipped overseas? IT jobs have been moving overseas at a rapid pace, is that because of unions?

    Is it possible that the United States simply is not capable of competing with the wages in those countries?

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    Are union jobs the only ones being shipped overseas? IT jobs have been moving overseas at a rapid pace, is that because of unions?

    Is it possible that the United States simply is not capable of competing with the wages in those countries?


    Duh! You win a prize. Isn't that what I've been saying? Geez.

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    Duh! You win a prize. Isn't that what I've been saying? Geez.
    Its not at all what you were saying. You brought up unions. The issue has nothing to do with unions but you tried to blame them. You're too stupid to realize how your programmed biases show in every post you ing make.

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    Its not at all what you were saying. You brought up unions. The issue has nothing to do with unions but you tried to blame them. You're too stupid to realize how your programmed biases show in every post you ing make.
    God, you're and idiot. Do you think unions have anything to do with their members' wages?

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    Darrin, its ok. We all know you don't realize how stupid you are. I should not expect someone to create a master piece when they can't handle drawing a straight line. Its not your fault that we expect you to have the intellect of a normal person. Thats not your fault at all.

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    Darrin, its ok. We all know you don't realize how stupid you are. I should not expect someone to create a master piece when they can't handle drawing a straight line. Its not your fault that we expect you to have the intellect of a normal person. Thats not your fault at all.

    <yawn>

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    God, you're and idiot. Do you think unions have anything to do with their members' wages?

    A Chemical reacts at X temperature.

    If a chemical is kept at X+100 temperature and then undergoes event A that raises the temperature another 50 units event A does not cause the reaction.

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