And it became mantra. And look, I think it became part of republican orthodoxy for a very long time. An orthodoxy that I came up in which was, It's okay if productive capacity moves to another country. because what that will do is it will free up our workers to do work that's even more productive and pays them more. (09:47–09:51)
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