@37. Tarnsman “Where the jobs go?”

The major thing that industry and free market investment needs is some degree of stability — some reasonable degree of assurance that, once you invested $$$ in a project, that some politician won’t decree “Drilling is now prohibited!”, that the EPA won’t decide that your manufacturing process emits too much CO2 and shuts you down, that some judge does not decree you must now recruit exclusively minorities to staff your facility without considering competence.

In the absence of such stability, investment goes elsewhere. One thing about totalitarian, autocratic countries: the rulers CAN decree that conditions will stay conducive to manufacturing.

PS: I miss Whiskey. I think he brought much more to the site than the feminists who complained about him.