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dixiegrrrrl

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9. When you wake up, you will still be making sense.
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 07:49 AM
Mar 2012

As someone who has read a lot of history, I knew what Perot's warning of "a giant sucking sound of jobs leaving" meant, with NAFTA.

Way back in the 1700's, Britain had to pass a law that it was illegal to cut cloth, because the English cloth weavers were cutting up Indian cotton to protest the "outsourcing" of cheaper fiber arriving from outside England.
Colonial imperialism has been going on for a long long time
The fact that China can find it financially worth while to build plants here tells us exactly where we stand now in the world economy.
( hint: it ain't #1 any longer)

It seems pretty obvious to a lot of folks by now that Goldman Sachs and the M.I.C. DOES is very involved with nefarious deeds all over the planet.

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