I guess it is only fair to the Congressman to ask whether or not he voted on any of those issues when they passed. Was he even a Congressman then? Personally, I think many inexperienced Congressman vote on issues due to lobbying, agreements, and peer pressure only to find out the economic repercussions later.


>There's an article on MSNBC that was posted today about manufacturing jobs in the US:
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>"Manzullo cited a report from National Association of Manufacturers which said last month, “If the U.S. manufacturing base continues to shrink at its present rate and the critical mass is lost, the manufacturing innovation process will shift to other global centers. Once that happens, a decline in U.S. living standards in the future is virtually assured.”
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>The Manzullo fellow is a Congressman representing an Il. district that has 12% unemployement due to loss of manufacturing.
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>I don't understand how these Congressmen can complain about something that was created by their laws to begin with.
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>>> I think the only way we can compete with the Chinas and Indias is either to bring them up to our level of salaries or bring us down. Unfortunately, bringing us down appears to be mch more easily accomplished.
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>>Can you imagine the effect of U.S. factories in China paying their employees American wages???