[Willie Green]

And yet that decline is precisely what would make the U.S. competitive in terms of exporting manufactured products to other nations.

Imports have been increasing more rapidly than exports, that's one of the reasons the Trade Deficit keeps hitting record highs.

We can have a strong dollar and attract lots of foreign investment, or we can have a weak dollar and a strong export-based economy.

Why should we want to be an "export-based" economy when we've been blessed with natural resources and are the largest consumer market in the world?

We can easily make America more attractive to business investment by eliminating the corporate income tax and implementing tort reform. This needn't weaken the dollar through deficit spending, either. Treasury revenues "lost" by the corporate income tax reduction can be offset by levying a relatively low, flat-rate revenue tariff on imported goods. Other measures to reduce federal deficit spending and balance the budget would also strengthen the dollar.

[Willie Green]

	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S.	45,095	58,772	103,398	103,398	174,434	283,376	314,007	159,461	62,870	29,772
U.S. Direct Investment Abroad	73,252	92,074	84,426	95,769	131,004	209,392	142,627	124,873	115,340	151,884

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