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To: KevinDavis
I heard the same crap when Reagan was President.

By all accounts, we should be speaking Japanese right now based on what the doom and gloomers were saying in the 80's.

19 posted on 02/18/2005 10:11:52 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: Phantom Lord; All

Exactly.. The funny thing is the Trade deficit was going up in the 90's but we have not seen on peep about the trade deficist at all. I wonder why...


26 posted on 02/18/2005 10:14:48 AM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: Phantom Lord
By all accounts, we should be speaking Japanese right now based on what the doom and gloomers were saying in the 80's.

That' s true. I remember seeing the cover of National Lampoon magazine in 1989/90 and it said Welcome to the 90s with a big grinning Asian man behind a desk extending a handshake.

113 posted on 02/18/2005 11:51:47 AM PST by Huck (I only type LOL when I'm really LOL.)
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To: Phantom Lord
"doom and gloomers were saying in the 80's."

OR, the world should be frozen over by now according to some of the same kind of people's thinking from back in the 70s........

240 posted on 02/19/2005 6:03:21 AM PST by litehaus
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