Posted on 07/08/2017 1:33:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh Yes...
Labor Force Participation Rate in the United States increased to 62.80 percent in June from 62.70 percent in May of 2017. Labor Force Participation Rate in the United States averaged 63 percent from 1950 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 67.30 percent in January of 2000 and a record low of 58.10 percent in December of 1954.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-participation-rate
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/14/us-aerospace-defense-sector-fires-off-146-billion-in-exports.html
https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
All in all, not bad.
I do too, but an alliance to replace NATO would be a good thing. Why not?
I wonder what the Brits manufacture that we want to import? Gin?
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When we decided to kill our yacht builders with the “luxury tax” 25 years ago England and especially France stepped in to take over ,, maybe Oyster Yachts could open a shipyard here... England still does high-tech , one-off and low production high quality goods brilliantly... they could easily be used as a foil to reduce the ridiculous amounts charged by our defense industries.
Engineering.
Masses of high accuracy production work is outsourced to the UK from the US, and has been for decades.
Thanks for the Ping, KC.
I hope he schooled Madam May on leadership, she could do with a few pointers.
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