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Current Events » in reply to re: We'll see. I do hope you are right.

An employer must create more wealth than they use up.

This is called "profit."

It's certainly possible to put an industry on infinite subsidy--AMTRAK comes to mind--but the jobs in such an industry are, for all intents and purposes, a form of welfare. There is an upper limit to how many jobs in America can fall into this category. Subsidy money has to come from somewhere.

It's a worthy goal to save jobs, but if they're artificially supported, it's not going to help in the long run.

Michael Moore is not a reliable source of information.

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