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2. This didn't happen overnight -
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 02:21 PM
Jan 2016

and at least some of this can be linked to complicit democrats. To wit, "Michigan lost 231,752 manufacturing jobs (or 28.3 percent) during the NAFTA-WTO period (1994-2015), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.* This figure is for total manufacturing employment, so it takes into account both jobs created by exports and jobs displaced by imports, among other causes of net job change. The percentage of all private sector jobs that are manufacturing jobs in Michigan declined from 24 percent to 16.3 percent during the NAFTA-WTO period." http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=3413

Recognizing that it would be really nice to lift boats all over the world. But what we see in practice is that we lift some boats here and there, and others drown because the billionaires sure aren't gonna give up their yachts. We're being played here.

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