Deindustrialization

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We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s pocket.

Frank Sobotka

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The Wire

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"Bad Dreams." The Wire, written by David Simon and George Pelecanos and Joy Kecken, directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, season 2, episode 11, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2003.

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If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for labor... Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement. And you don't care about anything but making money. There will be a giant sucking sound going south.

Ross Perot

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On trade agreements between the U.S. and other countries.

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Perot, Ross. Spoken at a presidential debate. Presidential debate. 15 Oct. 1992, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA.

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Factories provide three things this country desperately needs: jobs, pride, and material for Bruce Springsteen songs.

Jack Donaghy

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"Meet the Woggels!" 30 Rock, written by Tina Fey and Ron Weiner, directed by Linda Mendoza, season 6, episode 17, Broadway Video and Little Stranger, 2012.

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You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for twenty-five years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. Statement in San Francisco. San Francisco fundraiser. 6 Apr. 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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To me America used to be a place that made steel and cars and had giant department stores. Now basically we produce amateur talent and people that judge amateur talent.

Jerry Seinfeld

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Seinfeld, Jerry. "Howard Stern - The Last Days of Howard Stern." Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, season 3, episode 7, Sony Pictures Television, Netflix, 6 Feb. 2014.

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So this was GM chairman Roger Smith. And he appeared to have a brilliant plan: First, close 11 factories in the U. S., then open 11 in Mexico where you pay the workers 70 cents an hour. Then, use the money you've saved by building cars in Mexico to take over other companies, preferably high-tech firms and weapons manufacturers. Next, tell the union you're broke and they happily agree to give back a couple billion dollars in wage cuts. You then take that money from the workers, and eliminate their jobs by building more foreign factories. Roger Smith was a true genius.