[Willie Green]

Restoring Economic Health: Reduce Budget and Trade Deficits
Bush Economic Polices Threaten National Security

[Willie Green]

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[atomicpossum]

Why can I tell by the headline who posts certain stories?

[Coop]

Four more years!!!!

Four more years!!!!

Four more years!!!!

Four more years!!!!

Four more years!!!!

Four more years!!!!

[aynrandfreak]

This is bunk. People have been complaining about the trade deficit for years, but in fact, a new economic theory holds that trade deficits are a conseqence of wealth. We have a trade deficit because we have so much more to spend.

[Warren_Piece]

Willie, show me that trade deficits have skyrocketed as a percentage of GNP and I'll change my tagline to Go Pat, Go!

If you had asked me when I was 20 how I would feel if I made $XXXXX a year (what I'm making now), I would say, "I'm going to be rich!"). However, in 2004, I am quite middle-classed. In fact, if I lived in CA, I'd be near poverty-level. It'a sll relative.

[caisson71]

One months figures do not an economy make - especially before an election.

[dennisw]

Buy all that cheapo Chicom stuff now before the sinking dollar puts them out of reach of the "new peasantry" of the United States of America.

Due to Asian over production you can buy great 19" LCD monitors for $379 at NewEgg and it ain't gonna last

[Skooz]

You're right.

*sigh*

Only one left to do now:

[CWOJackson]

Wow, the economy is tanking faster then a pat buchanan for president effort. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

[massadvj]

Our so called "trade deficit" gives us the highest standard of living in the world. The trade deficit is a phony statistic, as most economists know. Seventy-five percent of our economy is made up of services, not goods. When you factor in things like software, medical care, foreign students attending American schools, foreign investment into our markets, engineering, architecture, etc. there is no trade deficit. In fact, we are taking in much more foreign cash than we are leaking.

The very act of government imposing tariffs skews the numbers. I ship over $10K per month to consumers overseas, and, at my customers' request, I almost never declare the true value of the goods on the forms. Why? They want to avoid tariffs. And yet these are the numbers the government relies upon to determine if there is a trade deficit.

Get a clue. Compare our standard of living to just about anywhere else and you will see that the US is winning the trade wars. That said, there are places, such as Bermuda, that are kicking our butt. Not with tariffs but with low taxation, a strong rule of law, enforced immigration, and an open and free economy.

Is it possible to have racial diversity, very little crime and virtually no poverty? Go to Bermuda and you will see exactly that. That's what an open, capitalistic system combined with a a few sensible laws strictly enforced will get you.

[Barlowmaker]

"Willie Green's My Cabana Boy"

[Walkin Man]

Americans´ comparative advantage will be in sales – hawking to each other the wares of other nations. Or maybe we´ll just all go back to the farm. But the only problem with that scenario is that farming is also under intensive attack from foreign competition.

That is the future for America.

Selling communist made crap at the local Mega Great Wall-Mart for below-poverty wages. Or maybe we will all be surfs of the few obscenely rich traitors that are raping the USA on a daily basis?

So-called "free trade" is killing the American Dream and the middle-class, one job at a time. The only way we can compete against communist slave labor is to become communist slaves ourselves.

I trust the majority of Americans will wake up to that fact soon and do something about it.

I just wonder how far the globalists will go to maintain their death grip on this country and its leaders, democrat and republican?

[Mulder]

If "free trade" is such a good idea, why do these same politicians support tax rates ranging from 20% to 40% on trade between American citizens?