Sold
By shartsell
@shartsell (31)
United States
April 25, 2008 7:39am CST
The old Adam's Millis building where my grandfather worked is quiet. The grass is knee high, doors are closed, and the halls are empty. The machines are silent and the heart of the American factories are gone.
Sold out to the lowest bidders. Mexico and China work for slave wages. Here at home furniture is touched up, that is made overseas for $2.00 on the hour.
OSHA is part of the cause, they have regulated the American families right out of business.
The President didn't help! He sold us out, when he signed NAFTA.
I bet his grandparents threaded a needle years ago or hand crafted a table leg.
What a disgrace my grandpa would say.
They worked so hard to build this economy.
Thinking up new inventions to be traded on the high seas.
They left factories and companies so that their grand children would have a chance at this life in the free world.
Instead of standing on the Promises they left behind, we are tearing down Commandments and hiding them around.
We are so dumbed down in this, "Country so tis of thee."We Americans are allowing the Government to sale us to the lowest bidder.
Who will pay for our power bills, clothes and food?
It sure will not be the people overseas.
Tell your views of how the factories in your area have closed. How does big Government think that we can live in these conditions. We cannot even afford to pay our bills. Loans from other countries is not going to help, when there are no middle class jobs. Mr. Clinton didn't help, when he signed NAFTA.
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@MichaelJay (1100)
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25 Apr 08
It's the same in UK. I live in Stoke-on-Trent which is known as 'The Potteries' six towns linked together in a Federation to make the City of Stoke-on-Trent.
The Potteries was the centre of the world ceramic industry with names like Wedgwood and Doulton based here and employing local skills which could not be found anywhere else.
It grew up bcause there vwas clay and iron ore and coal here.
We had collieries, steel works, tyre factories and of course the potbanks.
Now they've all been exported to Malaysia where they work for peanuts.
What do we have left in this once proud industrial hartland? Call centres....