I need to answer that? I want to add school shootings to the short list of automatic capital punishment crimes. Although murder is illegal, the death penalty is not always sought for the crime committed. A school shooting would be an automatic capital crime.

You forgot Germany and our other trading partners as well after WWII. I remember playing with toy cars and seeing Made in Occupied Japan stamped on them. Taking them apart and finding them made out of beer cans. We were rebuilding their pre-existing economies and importing goods made by them, but not at the same scale and pace as when China was opened up to trade and manufacturing possibilities. Remember that Germany and Japan, were manufacturing durable goods for their own citizens first and then exporting them. Yes, I agree that China was late to the table, but only because the US used it influence and political clout to keep them off the world stage. When Nixon opened up diplomatic relations our industry saw a largely agrarian country where cheap labor was plentiful and minimal regulations were in place. Our American companies then built a Chinese based industry with 100% output aimed at the American market and nothing for the Chinese consumers. It's slowly changing as China's domestic durable goods output grows, as more people move to the urban cities and want the latest iPhone and iPad. If you feel this is revisionist then more power to you, but I lived through it, studied it and this is how I remember it.

You don't see much grey do you, its pretty much black and white as I ascertain from reading your posts. Unless you were raised in a orphanage run by Opus Dei, you most likely have liberal relatives somewhere in your family.

Can you explain this cryptic sentence in greater detail? Explain the fact and t***h that proves me wrong.

The decline of American made goods began in this country when Nixon opened up diplomatic relations with China and the manufacturing Industry saw a cheap source of labor with a substantial increase in profits to their companies. They could build a new state of the art facility somewhere in China and write the whole thing off. This gave them an excuse not to modernize and upgrade their stateside facilities and plants.They no longer had to pay pensions, health insurance and of course higher wages to their stateside employees. It gained additional momentum under Reagan and American Industry has never looked back.

No, I'm not out of my mind and Congress could pass a law making school shootings or mass shootings an automatic death sentence. They should be prosecuted on the federal level and not on the state or local level You can still have due-process but the outcome is already determined by law. Congress should also enact stronger legislation limiting the ability of people to purchase assault style weapons, with a waiting period of thirty days before you can take you weapon home. This of course will never happen with the current cowboy mentality we have in this country of wanting to purchase the biggest and baddest weapons we want, because we can and we want it NOW. It's a sad testament about this nation that we have greater protections in place to purchase weapons than we do to protect our children.

So this is your answer to my statement that some student will accidently get shot to death, that I need a brain. Why don't you use yours and come up with a solution to stop school shootings to begin with. With our current gun laws that will never happen though. If you do figure out a way to stem school shootings without arming teachers, I will be on board with you in a heartbeat.

Oh Elaine.

Anyone notice the very large hoop earrings she wearing?

How long before a teacher accidently shoots one of their students to death? It's not a IF, it's a WHEN.

H**e, Ignorance, and Intolerance of other people beliefs is why this is happening in our churches , synagogue's and mosque's. It is a sad testament to the American way of life that this is happening in our country today. it is not a left or right issue but a fundamental issue of not caring enough for the other person rights to live and worship as they wish. To loosely paraphrase Voltaire " I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" I don't see it practiced much in this country anymore.

I had heard of their existence but have never seen one. Interesting read.

Sometimes misinformation is easier to believe than the truth.

Are you an only child?

I think it depends on the day.