Posted on 02/18/2013 10:38:21 AM PST by blam
This makes no sense whatsoever. I really thought that all these entitlements, welfare, extended unemployment, extented unemployment extensions, foodstamps, and on and on were stimulating. With so much of all this, you’d think we’d be in BOON times.
RS should start selling drones to keep an eye on the local SWAT Teams and start selling those robot gun platforms.
They continue to pursue the same policies that got us into this mess.
A. Of course they do - they want us in this mess.
B. Did all posts since the installation of the new server get backed-out?
“Change the tax code, and encourage manufacturing to return to America.
It is that simple.
Build stuff here.”
To the founding fathers, free trade meant citizens of the US were free to trade with any country, not that every country in the world had open access to the US market. From the time of the founding until the 20th century US tariffs on imports were high In fact until the passage of the income tax amendment to the Constitution in the early 20th century, the federal government was funded by the tariff. Contrary to the propaganda spread by free traders, the economic infrastructure of the US was built during periods of high tariffs creating unprecedented prosperity for the citizens.
The founding fathers would have a simple prescription for our economic ills:
1) Reduce the size of government dramatically. Limit the federal government to specifically enumerated powers and responsibilities.
2) Raise tariffs to levels required to 100% fund the government and pay down the debt (exactly what Alexander Hamilton did to pay off the Revolutionary War debt for an insolvent new nation).
3) Go back on the gold standard, mint gold coinage.
4) Eliminate the Federal Reserve. Have the Treasury issue money, backed by gold and silver.
5) Eliminate the income tax.
6) Reform tort law
7) Watch the economy boom.
Because I can buy online?
“Change the tax code, and encourage manufacturing to return to America.
It is that simple.
Build stuff here.”
To the founding fathers, free trade meant citizens of the US were free to trade with any country, not that every country in the world had open access to the US market. From the time of the founding until the 20th century US tariffs on imports were high In fact until the passage of the income tax amendment to the Constitution in the early 20th century, the federal government was funded by the tariff. Contrary to the propaganda spread by free traders, the economic infrastructure of the US was built during periods of high tariffs creating unprecedented prosperity for the citizens.
The founding fathers would have a simple prescription for our economic ills:
1) Reduce the size of government dramatically. Limit the federal government to specifically enumerated powers and responsibilities.
2) Raise tariffs to levels required to 100% fund the government and pay down the debt (exactly what Alexander Hamilton did to pay off the Revolutionary War debt for an insolvent new nation).
3) Go back on the gold standard, mint gold coinage.
4) Eliminate the Federal Reserve. Have the Treasury issue money, backed by gold and silver.
5) Eliminate the income tax.
6) Reform tort law
7) Watch the economy boom.
Another spot on post by the Soul of the South.
Internet sales are exploding.
A large part of the brick and mortar retail collapse is the move from physical to virtual shopping, including instant delivery of goods throught the internet. Getting what you want the same day you buy it used to be the exclusive domain of brick and mortar store, but now movies, games, and music are all downloadable from the comfort of your couch.
The internet also allows low-effort comparison shopping and fewer trips to stores, sauntering around the mall all day to see which stores had the best products and prices aren’t done with the same regularity as before. Even a trip to a store to handle a product one intends to purchase doesn’t mean that they’ll buy, since smartphone apps allow instant scanning and price comparison of product bar codes.
Many retail stores, as they operate today, are naturally going to either change or fail the same way general stores had to change or fail when Sears came to dominate the market, and town center stores fell apart when shopping plazas were built on town outskirts.
The current business environment isn’t the cause, but the policies of the government which discourage risk and investment if they don’t favor the administration’s goals of the moment aren’t helping anything.
People buying stuff online is not a function of the Zero economy. People should shop wherever and however they want. Getting rid of Zero and the 'Rats won't cause people to return to brick and mortar stores en masse, although it would help those stores simply as a function of igniting a boom.
Although, do shop around before buying on Amazon Prime. You may discover that that shipping charge you thought was covered by your Prime subscription is actually built into the price.
Their current on time delivery inventory system is only on time with delivery two - three weeks from the time they run out of a product to restocking it and sold out again in about two days time. That is one of their main reasons for loss.
They have storerooms & they need to use them to maximize store sales. Bentonville needs to listen to the managers.
Second thing is cater to the customers who gave Walmart it's support to start with. Reopen layaway year around. More costly items may be risked
“The media has no interest in reporting any factual data like this the public”
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Today’s media is just a new version of the old Pravda, Radio Moscow, and Radio Albania, where every sentence included the term “Marxist/Leninist”.
Absolutely! I watched “The Presidio” the other night, released in 1988 and set in San Francisco. Plenty of street scenes and outdoor action shots...and except for the occasional VW Bug and Volvo, EVERY CAR I SAW in that movie WAS AMERICAN. This was 1988, just 24 years ago, for cryin’ out loud!!!!
Without doing a lot of research, we ran a trade surplus every year from 1960-70. We had trade surpluses in 1973 and 1975.
I bet we had plenty of trade surpluses during the post WWII years in the 1940s and 1950s.
"Offshoring" is one word. Maybe they didn't teach you that in labor union orientation.
Since 90% of the manufacturing jobs that were off shored were previously being done by non union workers in the USA maybe they never taught you common economic sense. I guess Madison, Jefferson and Washington were all wrong about tariffs.
There is so much these stupid “Free Traders” don’t know.
Brick stores seem to be clueless about online shopping. When I try to use websites of major stores to see if they have the item in stock to buy it is impossible. Time after time I find either the website says they have an item and they don’t or they will have items the website says are not in stock. By being so clueless they are losing more customers to online shopping.
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