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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

I KNEW IT!

Guess what?

America is still the world's leading manufacturer.  We think of China as the world's factory, but we still make more stuff.  It's just that we're more productive in terms of the labor we get from each of our workers.  So less people are making more.

The problem isn't that America doesn't make stuff anymore, it's that we've gotten too efficient at making stuff to keep people employed at doing it.

Proof is here.

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