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thomhartmann

(3,979 posts) Tue Mar 20, 2012, 03:12 PM Mar 2012

Thom Hartmann: Brazil vows to Protect Manufacturing

Without a strong manufacturing sector - a country is screwed. How is Brazil working to protect it's economy - and can America do the same thing?

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Thom Hartmann: Brazil vows to Protect Manufacturing (Original Post) thomhartmann Mar 2012 OP

That's how empires are built.... chaska Mar 2012 #1

chaska

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1. That's how empires are built....

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 03:34 PM

Mar 2012

That's how we did it when we took Britain's place as the dominant empire, and that's how those vying to take our place are doing it now.

Free market economies are a myth and a con. Protectionism, is a necessity if a nation is to prosper.

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