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The world is flat. India has ~1.5 billion people and is growing. We need enough precision machine tooling and production capacity for self defense. But world competition is inevitable, and arguably better for the US economy. Our value proposition needs to be something greater than that of other countries. And that's where the economy and employment will thrive and thus support other service sectors.



How will the US economy thrive by outsourcing all the jobs to the billions of people in India?

Sounds like the rich are the only ones who will thrive in this scenario. It will absolutely devastate American workers.




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