Conservatives blame sin, rather than syndromes, and cultural decline, rather than economic dislocation.
Five years of steady decline in defense spending have precipitated tremendous shrinkage in the industrial base and considerable economic dislocation.
They are difficult to protect, have many exploitable vulnerabilities, and if attacked can almost guarantee sizeable casualties and extensive economic dislocation.
Economic dislocation and inflation are features of life that go back into ancient history and we are living through another such period.
And is the government making any preparations for what the economic dislocation impact would be of a Chrysler essentially ceasing to exist?
And people know individuals, or are themselves, either have been hurt harder or know individuals who have suffered life-changing circumstances as a result of the economic dislocation.
Now, with a dwindling tax base and growing worries about the social effects of wrenching economic dislocation, it is allowed to spend more than it earns on job-creation schemes and infrastructure.
This phenomenon, in concert with the ongoing and possibly deepening global credit crisis, could also result in unprecedented volatility in the stock market, not to mention currency crises and related economic dislocation.
It underscores the fragility of what is currently the only rapidly expandable source of the crude which if taken off-line would precipitate an immediate end to any recovery, and probably serious and lasting economic dislocation.
But the fact that Richmond is now suffering the sort of economic dislocation that Sedgefield has been used to for a generation does nothing to dispel the widespread belief that the south somehow always does do better than the north.
Unless the costs associated with producing American vehicles in union shops are dramatically reduced and there is a turn-around in the appeal of such cars and trucks to consumers buying fewer of them from anybody, the writing is on the wall: No amount of largesse at the taxpayer's expense is going to stave off the autos' inevitable downsizing, job loss and economic dislocation.
But along the way, that process is bringing great economic and labor dislocation, as well as an unequal share of the spoils.
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