And we arent buying it.

It wont be long till the 2010 elections and then the 2012, and then we will tell, you, you lost the election, the people rejected you. Sore loser, nan nah nan nah boo boo!

LOL!

But Im sure you will continue to cherish your anti Southern bigotry.

Maybe you should come up with a better selling point to convince Southerners to your way of thinking….rather than….you ignorant backwards arse uneducated bitter clinger racist hillbilly hicks!

I must really hit your buttons because beyond the rage, I can’t find much logic in you remarks.

Move south, never. Your underground water table will be too polluted from the north. You’ll run the risk of getting addicted to meth just by drinking it. May sound crazy but I wouldn’t risk it.

Blind arrogance!

None of us can compete with China so now what do we do? — CforChange

Those rat bastards in the South are killing us, so lets blame China!

LOL!

The same was said of the Japanese….now they build cars in teh South.

You are like a broken record. The North needs to come to grips with their lower standard of living in the future or move South. This protectionist nationalization BS, combined with xenophobia and spite that other people are doing well, is downright ugly!

Hmm, let’s change that to: Housing costs are MUCH cheaper. (Compare a 3 bedroom house in the Boston area to a 3 bedroom house in Cleveland.) Which means you can get by on a lower wage.

And Again: Housing costs are MUCH cheaper. (Compare a 3 bedroom house in the Boston area to a 3 bedroom house in Buffalo.) Which means you can get by on a lower wage.

and again: Housing costs are MUCH cheaper. (Compare a 3 bedroom house in the Boston area to a 3 bedroom house in Detroit.) Which means you can get by on a lower wage.

one more time: Housing costs are MUCH cheaper. (Compare a 3 bedroom house in the Boston area to a 3 bedroom house in Pittsburgh.) Which means you can get by on a lower wage.

Sorry, I’m not buying that the southern move is cheaper. Sinz you haven’t even mentioned infastructure – new roads and sewage plants and more expensive water, higher utility bills. (Water bills are huge in the south.) No matter who pays – business or government, it’s still a cost to do business. Plus plenty of this development during the past 2 or 3 decades has occurred is in crazy places subject to flooding, tornadoes and the effects of hurricaines. This is reflected in much higher business insurance rates. Adding up all business expenses including new facility construction, it can’t be cheaper to operate as newness in the South. Most likely it costs the same. It’s just a matter of who is profiting from the entire pie. Most likely it is self interest, because I haven’t experienced a decent return on my publically held stocks for quite some time.

Maybe LABOR wages are less, that’s the way of the south. It’s evolutionary that they pay anything.

The north was established first because bsinesses used to locate where resources were located meaning both skilled humans and product components. Example – Steel was made in Pittsburgh because it has the purest seam of coal in the world available there. Plus oil was 1st discovered in Titusville PA… It wasn’t a discriminating decision, the ingrediants were readily available.

None of us can compete with China so now what do we do? I’m glad that the president is at least giving this important issue some attention – it was overlooked for the past 8. Now we make nothing so midcon #14, what if we lose our skills(which we are) and we lose our ability to import. There’s a threat to national security, a mostly unskilled workforce – mouse clicking doesn’t count as a skill.

Wonder why?

Having Southern workers subsidize the high wages and benefits of Northerners is criminal!

I don’t believe in industrial policies.

Of course it’s cheaper.

They have “right to work” states, which allow non-union factories.

Housing costs are MUCH cheaper. (Compare a 3 bedroom house in the Boston area to a 3 bedroom house in Mississippi.) Which means you can get by on a lower wage.

And so, labor costs are cheaper. Japanese auto manufacturers operating in the South pay a lower wage than the Detroit auto makers do. But since living costs are lower too, they have no trouble finding workers.

And now we should bail those bankrupt bastards out.

Screw THAT! Let em enjoy the fruits of their greed.