[waterstraat]

When the dollar weakens against foreign currencies, our goods become cheaper in foreign markets increasing our exports.

Not when you close your factories and move your manufacturing to asia. We will not export more Maytags which are now made in asia, we will not export more Lifesavers, we will not export more Stanley tools, we will not export more Cross pens, etc.etc. etc. You cant export what you dont make.

[ancient_geezer]

We will not export more Maytags which are now made in asia, we will not export more Lifesavers, we will not export more Stanley tools, we will not export more Cross pens, etc.etc. etc.

Why would we ever want to, create new products and new factories, which is what we do the best.

You cant export what you dont make.

Make something new. Even them ole buggy shops I remember as a child had to give way to the horseless carriage my friend. The world is hardly at the end of it capacity to want that which is better, more efficient, and useful. Figuring to maintain some fixed status quo and a stagnate set of industies is a certain path to decline and ultimate failure.

[ancient_geezer]

Not when you close your factories and move your manufacturing to asia.

But then you might try to make it worthwhile for those factories to stick around, and come back again.

Rep. Bill Archer, Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee:

• "A recent survey was done, in Europe and Japan, of the major corporations and I was astounded at the results. They were asked, 'If the US abolished its income tax and went to a sales tax, would that have any impact on your decisions?' Eighty percent of the corporations said they would build their factories in the United States of America. Twenty percent said they would move their international headquarters to the United States of America."