Rick Santorum took his nostalgia for manufacturing to 2nd place in the recent GOP presidential primary, but lost on his partisans is the simple and happy truth that manufacturing of the labor intensive variety, no matter the tax subsidies, will never return to the United States.

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Of course lost on the author is the simple truth that a strict policy of no bailouts would achieve that which he desires in terms of smaller banks.

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Indeed, lost on the deficit worriers is the simple truth that a dollar is a dollar is a dollar.

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