Posted on 06/01/2011 7:14:04 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
The America Family Association has organized ten powerful economic graphs that put financial facts and figures into visual form. Sometimes you can quote economic statistics to people until you are blue in the face and it won’t do any good, but when those same people see charts and pictures suddenly it all sinks in. As you examine the economic charts below, pay special attention to what has been happening to the U.S. economy over the last 30 or 40 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at kencauley.com ...
Frankly I can do without you “teaching” me about free markets.
Though you are no doubt an export at sending US jobs elsewhere.
Look at the states with the longest history of unions - and you'll see where the death of our nation started... It's beyond rust and hopelessness. It's beyond government bailouts and throwing money down a rat hole.
When the country falls into chaos you'll be able to thank elite liberals and the bullies in unions.
You do a fine job of letting no one teach you about free markets. It's why you cling to the "we need tariffs to make prices rise, but tariffs won't make prices rise" reasoning.
The author is a leftist populist disguised as an economics commentator.
He blames outsourcing for the lack of jobs. Completely missing the near century long war on capital right here in America.
So we should harm consumers to benefit WTI producers?
Why not just support Texas jobs and put a tariff on all imports into Texas?
Then you can put a Houston tariff and a Dallas tariff and a San Antonio tariff, and etc. in place protecting all those people and their jobs.
Buy local...no matter what it costs.
New law of they demand we supply.
We simply exported most of manufacturing overseas because government regs, taxes, and other factors have become hostile to the business environment for the past 50 to 60 years.
It is a basic fact that manufacturing is the keystone to economic vibrancy for any economy.
Consumer will be really harmed, when America collapses.
Some perspective people, please.
America’s money - consumers’ money - is not unlimited. When it is gone, America is finished.
No money. No jobs. No industry.
I know people sitting on millions nervous to invest it in this hostile climate. And America has been increasingly hostile to business for over half a century.
Where’s a Calvin Coolidge when you need one?
Leave him be. He believes, as did the court of Luis XVI, in mercantilism. If we do turn to that, the outcome will be the same. History does repeat itself.
The NappyOne
You, as in every right thinking American, should be doing something, instead of asking someone else to do something:
1) Get out of debt - easy to say, hard to do without some self discipline
2) Prepare mentally - get focused, and start thinking about the future that could be. Learn skills that are being lost with every generation of Americans. Skills of self sufficiency that our fore fathers used to make this great nation. Learn about the past; what our country is supposed to be like and how it came to be where it is, so we can undo what has been done.
3) Prepare physically - obtain that which you would need int he event of an emergency. The people of Joplin MO, East Texas, Alabama, etc suffered "The End Of The World As We Know It". Would you be prepared if the same thing, or something equally disastrous (say an economic collapse), happened to you?
4) Prepare spiritually - Most importantly, understand that there are things out there bigger than man; thing beyond understanding, which require faith. Accepting this will put you in a position to better handle what ever comes your way. For me, it Christ; for you...how knows?
If you wait for someone else to "do something", the time will come when it is too late. As someone once told me, "Better a year too soon, than a day too late". This isn't tin-foil hat nuttery, rather it is plain old common sense, which used to rule the day. Just my two cents, YMMV
Exactly, when you ask somebody to do something, somebody will eventually do something, but odds are, you won't like the results. Germans in the early 30s said that "somebody should do something," and we all know what happened after that.
” Leave him be. “
I’m pretty impressed that he got through as many exchanges as he did, before resorting to a) unsupported claims of superior, unassailable, incontrovertible, and undemonstrated, ‘expertise’, and, simultaneously, b)gratuitous ad hominem attacks on those who dare to disagree....
well, it was an expression of helplessness, true. But I am so beat down I don’t know what to do. I am not in debt at least thank God. Do have kids to think about and live in a city that is blighted.
I appreciate the humor in you post. Guess a lot of people missed it...
“Unions forced many of our companies first to the South - and then overseas. In the short run the greedy little jerks got wages higher than workers around them who didn’t belong to unions. In the long run companies ran away from the bullies and took American jobs with them.”
Hmmm....
Could the solution be multi-pronged?
That is,
1. Import tariffs on goods from countries with “next-to-nothing wages”
2. Ban the export of entire American industries, AND
3. Ban all unions within America, forcing wage levels back into balance?
(Not that anyone is ever going to DO any of this....)
Just wonderin’....
WOW.
It is stunning to recall that the national debt was less than one slim trillion dollars back in 1980 before Reagan trippled it, and then it was off to the races.
I forgot too that the House Republicans got the deficit under control, before Baby Bush’s moonshot. You can see from 2000 to 2008 the debt just soars under Baby Bush. He only lost Congress and the Senate in 2006, so you can’t blame the Democrats at all for his 1st 6 years of horrific deficits.
Of course Obama’s debt is like the “big bang” of all debts, but it is still crystal clear that the Republicans got us to his launching point.
1. Import tariffs on goods from countries with “next-to-nothing wages”
2. Ban the export of entire American industries, AND
3. Ban all unions within America, forcing wage levels back into balance?
We might be facing a major depression - tweaked, your ideas have merit. That said, we're probably the only two who feel that way...
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