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Kind of assumes that manufacturing stuff is the only way a country can do well.

Thank goodness you can spot the fakes, Gun.

BTW, my real name is Nabongo, I am a humble aid to his Nigerian Majesty Prince Titibobika who was driven out of power by rebels. I have US 8 million dollars to send to your account but I need US$500 to unlock it...

What an inane email.

I could make one just as long in Australia... but ALSO pad it out with all the Australian made stuff I use each day as well.

We're global now people, and if you're that damn afraid of work not existing in your country, how about you try to buy more stuff made locally rather than just always the cheapest option?

And, as Dag said, it's not like manufacturing is the only form of work. Hell, the idea is that it's not even the most desirable anyway, that the inventing of items and the discovery of ideas and creation of medicines etc. is all more worthy than just making produciton line stuff

So basically, John got dressed in some designer clothes, had a good breakfast, got in his bmw and buzzed around town a bit, went home, flipped on his plasma tv and got drunk. Tragic story that.

That's the heart of American politics right there. A few people watch the news, even fewer understand it or pay attention, and then word of mouth just starts spreading like a giant retarded game of telephone. The people at my last job used to believe some of the dumbest crap. And if you tried to explain the reality of it to them, they'd look at you like you were speaking Chinese.

The ramifications of our reckless and foolish international free trade agreements is a great topic for conversation, but it's so much easier to scapegoat foreigners than to read up on the topic.

The sad truth is for most folks... you get ANY more complicated than this and your likely to lose your audience entirely... probably to a video of cats.

Seems similar to one I got a few years ago:

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issed by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to ny house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it's valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.

who the fuck puts sandals on to watch t.v.?

I'm calling fake on this one.