# Occupy Wallstreet

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**Created:** [September 29, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647 "2011-09-29T12:57:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Upstate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b3f665/32.png) [@Upstate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Upstate)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647/67 "2011-10-04T09:59:42Z")

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> [@This is what I want to build](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/this-is-what-i-want-to-build/45812/6):
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> Well your logic is sound and that is why its happening.
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> However that simply fucks us and US. If nothing else we need to bring manufacturing back here.
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> Hopefully Chinas bubble will bust and it won’t be that beneficial to manufacture there.
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> Otherwise America will just become an empty bubble that will collapse on itself as it seems to be doing.
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> Upstate, the figures you talked about almost sound like a recent tech innovation contract that was passed last week with state funding. You didnt happen to be a part of that did you?

No, that one was above my pay grade. I’ve worked smaller deals for internet retailers, pharmaceutical companies and a traveling circus.

Basic manufacturing jobs are not coming back to the US. We need to accept that and move on. Prevailing wage rates and unions have assured us of that. What NY is doing right now and investing in tech companies is a smart move and will prove to be the next wave of manufacturing.

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