[politicalwit]

"The Stagecoach driver and Buggy whip makers jobs left the country a century ago. "

You're analogy is very poor. "Stagecoach driver and Buggy whip makers" were replaced with modern transportation and technology. The textile industry is alive and well, not replaced with new technology, put cheap labor. Try again later!!!

[Syds Dad]

If you enjoy making shirts the rest of your life, why don't you move to Malaysia while the rest of the country moves forward?

We're going to be a service economy with an very high standard of living (even higher today, believe it or not).

Get over it.

[Syds Dad]

Wit..

Do you want to know what your future looks like?

Expected new positions through 2012

Registered nurses: 623,000
Postsecondary teachers: 603,000
Management: 376,000
Nursing aides: 343,000
Elementary school teachers: 223,000
Accountants: 205,000
Computer systems analysts: 184,000
Secondary school teachers: 180,000
Computer software engineers: 179,000
Information systems managers: 103,000


I'm sorry that you want to manufacture t-shirts and blue jeans for the rest of your life, or sew shoes together.

Get over it.

[verity]

I do not have a horse in this race. However, it would seem that all the arguments in the world are not going to reverse this trend.

[atlanta67]

How do you think NC and SC got those textiles jobs....neither state origianlly had a textile industry....Free trade relocated textiles from NE to the Southeast...without free trade within the US, teh south today would be poor and would not have made the economic gains that it has in the past 100 years