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Old 7th July 2009, 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted by coloma gold View Post
Isn't that the American way.... Develop a product in America, then outsource. We don't make TV's, autos (not the entire autos), anything electronic, any clothing, etc. We even sell the wood chips from our lumber mills to the orient.. they process it into bulding materials and sell it back to us... the only useless thing that we make are politicians and lawyers.
Don't worry, the Brits are at least as bad. Thatcher decided in the 80s that absolutely no manufacturing industry should be subsidised, that the financial/insurance services sector was the future, and look where that's got us.

Anyway, sorry, back to the topic. A quality Christmas Pudding, with a liberal soaking in a good Cognac. Haven't had one of those for ten years or so. Mmmm.

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