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Old 05-22-2006, 01:17 PM
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Default Re: The Dying Dollar

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Originally Posted by cygnus
Thats actually a fallacy. While we are no longer an industrial manufacturing economy like we used to be we are still manufacturing about 80-90% more today than we were almost 20 years ago.


And what measurement unit does this graph use? Dollars? If so, that's an even bigger fallacy: anything output by a US company in a plant overseas is thereby counted as an export.
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