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To: virgil
How do you get the dollar to go farther here? It seems that if foreign labor is so cheap, and we import so much of their stuff, our prices should go down.

Insightful economic observation of the night. Do you notice nobody ever talks about this?

168 posted on 07/18/2003 8:37:48 PM PDT by FoxPro
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To: FoxPro
Do you notice nobody ever talks about this?

That's because it's not happening, companies are maintaining their prices and fattening the bottom line. Without significant competition there is no reason to lower prices.

170 posted on 07/18/2003 8:40:07 PM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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To: FoxPro
Who Move my Cheese?

FoxPro the selfesh self-centered, "Screw America" I am getting mine so drop dead, My best friends are all in Russia, I could care less about anyone but me!

Your all on the "List" you can count on it.

Either we figure out how to compete with the rest of the world or we will die.

Dirt huts and 5 pennies and hour with Socialism.

Your next!

199 posted on 07/18/2003 9:33:51 PM PDT by Afronaut
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