I was an executive for a manufacturing company that used a ton of resins to
make products of fiberglass. We met very stringent environmental regs.
That's not what sent the jobs overseas: What sent the jobs overseas was
Chinese labor working for 50 cents an hour, six days a week. That's why we
no longer make things: because Americans want weekends and a living wage.
And I gotta say that if Americans were willing to work for that kind of
money, no one over here would ever have been able to afford our product, and
our factory would never have got started in the first place.

Seth

"Jose" wrote in message
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Well, a very serious argument can be made that the environmental
regulations of the last 30 years have seriously harmed our economy.

Remember when America used to actually *make* things?

And an equally serious argument can be made that we just pay Americans far
more than they are worth, and it's catching up to us, which is what's
really hurting the economy (and driving the jobs overseas).

Remember when we used to actually *fix* things?

Jose
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