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| DATE | 2013-05-05 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] ready - aim --- fire
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/05/05/a-modest-proposal-lets-outsource-the-entire-u-s-defense-effort-to-china/
American dependence on China grows by the day. The latest news is that
the United States has been reduced to leasing a Chinese satellite to
handle communications with U.S. military bases in Africa. Surprising,
isn't it? The nation that launched the world's first
communications satellite (I remember it well it was called
Telstar) has so lost its manufacturing mojo that it has to rely on its
most formidable military adversary to provide the hardware for some of
its most sensitive communications. This at a time when underlying
unemployment rates among U.S. manufacturing workers remain at
near-depression era levels.
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