there was a famous conversation that occurred between henry ford and walter luther who was the head ofthe union that ford had to deal with the ironworkers union and he was walking to the plant and showed luther a machine. he said this machine is going to replace i don't know how many workers and luther responded well that's great but how many cars is this machine going to buy? that is really the tension here is that yes we can replace workers with foreign competition and automation but you have got to have wages to buy products here in america. he said there is an understanding now by walmart and many others that we need to look to how we can be competitive. i'm not looking to rig the game. i'm really not. if you look at the proposals that i put in the book i think they are conservative in orientation. they are not subsidies. they are tax cuts and regulatory reforms in education which government of course is heavily involved in. the thing that we can do all consistent with what i would call conservative politics and conservative philosophies is give us the opportunity to be competitive

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