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Barack Obama1 quote
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 · 2008Frank Sobotka1 quote
We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s pocket. — Frank Sobotka · 2003Jack Donaghy1 quote
Factories provide three things this country desperately needs: jobs, pride, and material for Bruce Springsteen songs. — Jack Donaghy · 2012Jerry Seinfeld1 quote
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 · 2014Michael Moore1 quote
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. — Michael Moore · 1989Ross Perot1 quote
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 · 1992