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How we did it in the old Navy II. ER December 4, 2025 5:09 pm (CurrentEvents)

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All I know is what I see on the Internet. ER November 30, 2025 7:21 am (CurrentEvents)

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Collapse of the service access platform at Site 31 in Baikonur? BuckGalaxy November 27, 2025 12:54 pm (Space/Science)

Why the reflections? ER November 27, 2025 8:16 am (GeekSpeak)

So you Millennials think the world has given you a raw deal? ER November 25, 2025 5:27 pm (Off-Topic)

This is not a drill. NOT a drill. General Quarters, General Quarters. All hands man your battle stations. ER November 24, 2025 4:58 pm (CurrentEvents)

Xi called Trump RobVG November 24, 2025 10:26 am (CurrentEvents)

I thought this was fake news when I first saw it online BuckGalaxy November 23, 2025 10:13 pm (Space/Science)

80 Million Manufacturing Jobs Lost! July 4, 2011 6:52 pm BuckGalaxy

This article from Reuters shows a World Bank prediction that China will lose 80 million light manufacturing jobs in the next five years because of rising wages. Most of those jobs will end up in Africa.

So manufacturing businesses are going to leave China because of WAGES? I thought it was regulation, taxes and an overbearing government that drove jobs away? The conservatives have been telling the American people that if we just deregulate, lower taxes and get the government out of the way of the free market all the jobs would come back to the U.S.A.

  • Less than a decade ago, jobs started flowing from India to China, as Indian wages rose. by Robert 2011-07-05 12:40:48
    • The divide between "producers" and "consumers" is largely artificial. Producers make the most money when their customers have a ... by TB 2011-07-05 15:26:42
    • Hmmm...some back of the cocktail napkin calculations here...a billion Chinese, about 1/2 of them work....80 million out of a job...or ... by ER 2011-07-04 19:54:49
      • What we have here is the basis for WWIII, the war about commerce. The winner makes everyone else buy ... by Eri 2011-07-04 22:09:03
        • All wars are about commerce. The situation you describe, "The winner makes everyone else buy their goods and the ... by ER 2011-07-05 04:07:45

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