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Posted by Easy on Mon Apr 6 11:44:18 2020, in response to Re: Long term political and economic impacts of the pandemic, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 6 11:39:26 2020. It’s all conjecture and you may be correct, but oil works as a reserve because oil doesn’t expire. Not necessarily true for medicines and vaccines. Also oil is a natural resource. A better comparison might be the manufacture of defensive weapons. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 6 11:44:29 2020, in response to Re: Long term political and economic impacts of the pandemic, posted by Charles G on Sun Apr 5 17:24:44 2020. As recently as the late 80's the US economy was 70% manufacturing and 30% service. That flipped around to 30/70 in the early 2000's and I'd guess is closer to 20/80 now. People are going to bang the drum for domestic production -- but domestic production isn't about paying 10% more, it's about paying 2, 3 or 4 times more. Are Americans ready to pay $25 for a t-shirt that costs $7 today?This is partly a myth. What has declined is employment in the manufacturing sector. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Mon Apr 6 11:45:21 2020, in response to Long term political and economic impacts of the pandemic, posted by Easy on Sun Apr 5 13:27:15 2020. 1. I disagree. I think that we risk too much by relying on the federal government to help us. You get idiots like Donald Trump in the White House and vindictive crones like Nancy Pelosi in the House and the federal government will be paralyzed. The states have to have more power.2. I agree but good luck setting that up. American workers demand a lot more in pay and benefits than Chinese drones. I think using all-American labor would drive up the cost of goods and services. That's how we ended up farming out things in the first place. 3. I think the same people who liked isolation before this plague will still like it afterward. I'm pretty much a homebody but I do like the option of being able to go to a movie with my kids now and then. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 6 13:21:43 2020, in response to Re: Long term political and economic impacts of the pandemic, posted by Easy on Mon Apr 6 11:44:18 2020. I wasn’t really talking about medicines and vaccines. I have no problem with insourcing their manufacture, and even having the government heavily subsidize it (I also support socialized medicine).Just because manufactured goods aren’t a natural resource doesn’t mean they can’t be stockpiled. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Sep 16 04:18:27 2025, in response to Re: Long term political and economic impacts of the pandemic, posted by AlM on Sun Apr 5 14:35:20 2020. WAAM |
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