[george76]

Bob Wright was the NBC president ?

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[autumnraine]

"Ideally, of course, we're supposed to send full containers back, filled with our stuff for them to buy, but we don't make much stuff anymore. We make complicated financial products and arcane debt instruments. We, on the other hand, have invented Twitter. And Cinnabon."

Frightening and true. If our national credit falls out, we are screwed. We don't even have the capability of growing our own crops without the equipment, and we don't have the ability to make the equipment in our own country. I am starting to get more than concerned. This whole concept of building bridges and crap is fine and dandy, but back when FDR did it, we manufactured the stuff to do it in. That is what cranked the economy (even as it lagged down) up, the jobs created to make the equipment to build the roads... In this case, we don't have that anymore.

[rellimpank]

—interesting graph in post #26—

—http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144523/posts

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting and thanks for the graph. Good article.

What Rob Long doesn’t say is that once socialists/criminals/collectivists/parasites have destroyed an economy/country...freedom’s excesses like Leno will be as useful as watching a test pattern on your idiot box.

[Texas Eagle]

"The day we have to do that," he wound up, "is the day we have to shut the whole thing down."

Hallelujah! Please let it be so.

[Last Dakotan]

Ideally, of course, we're supposed to send full containers back, filled with our stuff for them to buy, but we don't make much stuff anymore. We make complicated financial products and arcane debt instruments.

This guy nails it. In part we did this to ourselves, in part our goods have been denied markets overseas.