Excellent!
I don't have any stats, but we are definitely spending money.
Yes.
We need to recoup some of that money.
Recoup? Is that a technical term in economics? Maybe you could explain it to me?
Is it like when I spend money at the gas station? I never recoup that. BP has never bought anything from me or paid me for anything. How will I recoup some of that money? Am I in trouble if I don't? Please explain why?
Claims? It's common sense.
Just like with the trade deficit, except you can't explain it.
The World Bank owns us, and a lot of other countries. They'll be calling in their markers one day.
Now you're just making stuff up. More than before even.
Let me count the people we know who are off the unemployment rolls. Once you're off, you don't count.
If by unemployment rolls you mean collecting unemployment benefits, you're wrong, again.
I can blame it for helping to funnel jobs out of this country.
Perot's giant sucking sound? That's funny. And wrong.
Do Japan and Germany operate with fiat money?
Yes. Along with every other country on Earth.
Running out of money? No problemo, just print more. You think this is funny?
I think your ignorance of economics is funny. How old are you?
To me a trade surplus means that we sell more than we have to take in. It's called making a profit.
You shouldn't confuse trade surplus with profit. They're not even close to being the same thing.
Suck off the government teat because some assholes in Washington sold our birthright? Screw NAFTA and screw that damn corridor!
Sold our birthright?
Apparently I have a different perspective than you do.
Yes, you've allowed emotion and misperception take the place of fact and logic.
Like I said, I don't have a college degree in economics. Look it up in the dictionary. We need to make more money than we spend. It's called saving for an emergency.
You spend money at the gas station to get to your place of employment. See? You spend some cash in order to make more cash. You're in trouble if you don't have a job, and are putting your gas purchase on a credit card to go have "fun".
I can't explain trade deficits? At least I'm putting in a better effort than you. Why don't you explain it to me?
Don't believe in the World Bank? Granted, some say it smacks of tinfoil conspiracy. I used to agree, but now I don't. Do you dismiss the CFR? Hey, no skin off my nose.
I'm not wrong about the deliberate skewing of unemployment stats. I see it with my own eyes, and I guess you're blessed that you don't. Btw, I voted for Perot. Btw, I'm 47 and the mom of four kids, and gramma to two. You can play mind games all you want, but I see the reality of these idiotic manipulations regarding our borders, our jobs, and our sovreignity. Yeah, our birthright to earn an honest living, live in a free country, and mind our own darn business. How could you possibly have a problem with that?