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Entry: They Are The Hollow Men Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/they_are_the_hollow_men#22506 Post contents: Tom's discussion of the auto industry collapsing under the weight of foreign competition reminds me of what happened to the tool and die industry in Central Connecticut during my youth. It too was wiped out by foreign producers, a trend that I saw repeated in Rockford, Illinois twenty years later. The problem with the argument that displaced laborers can do something else is that what is displaced is not just individuals but entire communities. Such costs of course mean zilch to the urban yuppies at the WSJ. Sent at: 2008 07 20