Posted on 10/07/2006 3:56:30 AM PDT by Man50D
If I understand your chart correctly, these items are components of some other food.
As a matter of fact, many places making tortillas are called "tortilla factories" and they are much like donut shops with the conveyor belts.
The chart is confusing if a tortilla is the same as an orange or apple.
Joseph Farrah is a bona fide patriot, and nobody's fool.
What does that even mean? Half of GDP or half the increase in GDP? Over what period?
At least he knows what an auction is.
Unlike you.
Remember what was said and then fan it out to every other industry that is related in any manner. "related to housing sales, construction and spending from home equity loans."
housing sales, for example when broken down is going to cover a percentage of the marketing industry, advertising industry, sales industry, communications industry, banking and loans, brokerages, with all the leased vehicles, new vehicle sales, rental vehicles, etc. used by that portion of the industry. And so on.
I fail to see how the normal expansions and contractions of an economy are germain to the subject?
Let's see, GDP in constant 2000 dollars (billions) between 1995 and 2005:
1995 8,031.7
1996 8,328.9
1997 8,703.5
1998 9,066.9
1999 9,470.3
2000 9,817.0
2001 9,890.7
2002 10,048.8
2003 10,301.0
2004 10,703.5
2005 11,048.6
Call it $96.2 trillion of GDP, let's call half, $48 trillion. That's a lot of GDP for what, 1.2 million houses a year? $48 trillion for 12 million houses, works out to about $4,000,000 per house.
Your guess sounds a bit off.
When I look at just the houses I have owned, I can easily see where the lives of at least 2000 people, possibly more were involved in some manner or another.
Remember I am thinking about how someone was invovled in the simple thing such as melting the glass for each light bulb. Without them I would have lived under kerosene lanterns or candles.
You are attempting to restrict the area of involvement to narrowly.
Not at all, just noticing that housing last year could not have accounted for $5 trillion or more of GDP. Unless you have some back up showing that it did?
I never claimed that it does exist. The facts are that there are some cretins, such as Robert Pastor who have a hard-on for such a thing and will try their damndest to make it happen. Why do you find it so offensive when people try to warn others about scumbags like him?
Same way with shutters. There is a mass produced product that is used by small batch plants that are customizing for the end user.
There are numerous other examples.
These jokers despise the Minutemen too. What a shocker.
I'd be interested to get your opinions on what Mr. Ficklin advocates in post #35.
You look at the world market as strong and growing. Overall I do too but my main area of interest is the health and welfare of these United States because this is where my family is. I don't lose sleep when Sudan has difficulties. I do when the US does.
I well understand that the term recession is a curse word in your lifestyle because you are a Republican globalist. An American recession is what causes sufferring amongst Americans, not something I care to witness again.
I don't think that sending our job overseas is something we should be doing if we want to remain top dog. While I am not a true isolationist I'm damn close in your eyes because I care more about America than I do internationalism.
I am aware that the lack of alcohol in my coffee forces me to see what reality actually is. I know it's a tough way to live but have no fear, I can handle it.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."
- Mark Twain
I have no interest in explaining to you in more detail that I have how an economy breaks down into the various subsections and the inter relationships.
OTOH, the isolationists, populists, and protectionists advocate policies very detrimental to America.
There is no need for you to explain anything in more detail. I'm satisfied just knowing that your guess was wrong and that housing does not compose 50% of GDP. Not last year, not this year and not over the last 10 years.
Sure sounds to me like he's advocating in favor of the OBL and what he say sounds eerily familiar to Pastor's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee . We're just not accustomed to seeing it from those who usually bum rush these threads accusing us of tinfoil hat conspiracies in an effort to silence the discussion. I said a while back that once the FOIA came out, the OBL gang were going to have to regroup and get direction on what to do next.
But I've got to hand it to Ben, he appears to be the first. Apparently they realize that this information, thanks to Corsi, etc., IS getting out and those of us who oppose it will NOT be silenced, despite the attempts at schoolyard bullying. I guess they figure they have no other choice but to ADMIT that they are actually IN AGREEMENT with and support Bush's OBL agenda. As if we didn't know ;-)
I would STRONGLY encourage anyone who hasn't, to get familiar with Pastor, imo, one of the most dangerous threats to our country:
http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/testimony/2005/PastorTestimony050609.pdf
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