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Quote: "Motorola’s Moto X, the first smartphone fully assembled in the United States".

Congratulations to Google for this! I respect all nations, but we have to take care of business here too and grow our own economy.




Protectionism has never worked well.


I'm not sure what protectionism has to do with Google manufacturing a phone in Texas. Could you elaborate?

Protectionism: The theory or practice of shielding a country's domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports.


I'm surely in a minority on this but I think it's kind of immoral to take jobs away from some of the poorest people on earth and give them to relatively well off Americans. I know I'm obligated to prefer my countrymen to others but I just can't convince myself that this is a good thing as a whole.


I respect that opinion ... but there was a time such that if America failed so would the whole world. It is not the people of America, but her ideas. I still feel America is our best hope unless someone wants to start all over again. It is truly sad to see governments keep their citizens poor. All of this greed to the detriment of our fellow man.




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