All along I thought we were on opposite sides of the fence here. I guess I should have been reading.
Really, I apologize.[/quote]
Scarlet: While I appreciate the sentiment, you certainly don’t need to apologize to me.
What I was trying to say all along, on this thread and others, is that I fully support American manufacturing and I always have. However, we replaced the economic model where we made stuff (manufacturing) with the economic model where we pushed paper around (service/finance).
For the record, I think you are completely RIGHT about the necessity of returning to the manufacturing model and completely RIGHT about fair trade and free trade. We have taken it in the shorts through calamitous trade legislation and I wouldn’t argue that point at all.
However, if we plan on returning to PROFITABLE manufacturing, we cannot use the model that GM did. It didn’t work. At all.
So, if we’re serious about manufacturing, we also need to be serious about competitiveness and profitability, otherwise we’re right back in the same position.
