Look at what happened over the weekend

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I guess that’s why they hold they hold the election.

“We showed that we weren’t going to let the establishment dictate which way we were going to vote,” said one Gingrich supporter.

Newt Gingrich beat Mitt Romney 40 percent to 28 percent in South Carolina — and so the debate will continue:

“Governor Romney may be running for CEO. I’m running for President,” says Gingrich.

But what’s the real difference between what each man would do as President?

They both say the key to unleashing the job creators is getting government out of the way. But the job creators themselves seem to think that might not be enough.

On Sunday, The New York Times ran the story of the Apple iPhone – and why it’s assembled in China instead of here.

One day, Steve Jobs famously decided that the iPhone would have a scratch-proof GLASS screen instead of a plastic screen. It was a major last-minute change. And the only way Apple could make the change and meet its deadline, was to go to China where China’s Foxconn Technology was able to hire 8700 engineers to oversee 200,000 workers and do it in 15 days.

Workers who live in company dormitories, are on call 24/7, and work 12-hour shifts 6 days a week, in factories subsidized by a very hands-on Chinese government, for a salary of $17 a day.

So once we’re past the debate on open marriages and tax returns, and the media bashing, we need to hear the candidates tell us how merely getting the US government out of the way is going to help us compete with that.

I’m not sure American workers would embrace a return to dorm life. Although the food fights were fun…

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