Posted on 11/22/2007 6:59:12 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
Truly the mark of a limited intellect: “I cannot fashion a suitable response, therefore you are Orwellian.” [hoot]
The statistics show the U.S. exported 1.34 gazillion dollars' worth of goods last year.
"Lies! It was only 1.20 gazillion dollars' worth!"
[crackling radio] "Send in the free-trader Thought Police right away."
Check this out. Our colleague is dancing around the same argument that Paul Craig Roberts made so (in)effectively not so long ago.
No comprende.
Bzzzz
Time's up.
Spktyr: "Their chips are all still made here, less than three miles from my home."
Apparently not:
"Direct from the Foundry"?
"Minimum involvemen by TI"?
These foundries?
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte: Singapore
United Microelectronics Corp: Taiwan
TSMC: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
Y'all have a nice night.
I'd link him to that article by Ikenson but, after reading through the last couple pages of the thread, it's clear it would do absolutely no good whatsoever.
You anti Federal Reserve guys simply need to make a better arguement. I can’t imagine another political issue where so many voters are fence sitters, don’t have their mind made up.
——European women don’t shave.—
-Spoken like someone who hasn’t dated a French girl. ;)
-The times they have changed... Or that’s been my experience. :)
I agree completely, whoever wrote they don’t shave has obviously never dated a Czech girl either. Also most European girls are not fat, which even young American girls on average are overweight.
If the dollar keeps dropping the claim that they make less money than “us” if their money is worth 50% more than ours and they get 3x as much vacation time? Our taxes are lower but we have a larger criminal population and a massive ghetto problem filled with druggies and massive problems with unskilled illegal immigrants in California and other key US states.
As far as the little cars in Europe. That is because they are in cities with excellent transit systems and they have super high speed trains that can go 300 MPH. It’s not as unnecessary to have a car and carry the insurance costs, maintenance, etc etc. If you think all Euros are driving mini coopers or something you need to go to London where I saw more super-expensive luxury cars than anyplace other than Beverly Hills and Palm Beach. Most Euros get six weeks vacation time and walk often in cities. Euros are not as fat as typical overweight SUV driving obese embarrassments to humanity that man Americans have become.
I love USA and where I live is great but don’t fool yourself there are many downsides to USA. USA is also busy playing policeman to the world and that is another reason we are in huge debt and the dollar is sinking lower every day.
The US is certainly falling in power as the dollar drops. If US government is unable or unwilling to stop the steady decline we may see a long terms shift in global economic power. The sweep of history can be difficult to avoid and when the US dollar loses reserve currency status or oil is no longer traded in dollars that will have inevitable consequences for middle class Americans.
Let them think Euro girls don’t shave, or wear perfume for that matter. It leaves more of them for us.
“Frankly, a very strong, unusually strong currency is far more dangerous.”
I’ve been lurking on these economics threads for a while, and I’d like to know whether you’ve read the recent Telegraph posting by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, and if so, what do you make of it?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930009/
I’ve wondered why we tend to look at the situation almost exclusively as a collapse of the dollar, when it can also be seen as a euro bubble. When I compare some prices between goods in the U.S. in dollars, and similar goods in Europe in terms of dollars converted into euros it seems obvious that there is a significant disparity.
The trouble is that WE ARE NOT taking care of the Hojatieh and the terrorists!! I wish we would as described somewhere below and even take a stand of bracing the chinese and the ‘soviet Putin’ if we have to - after violently doing what we have to do with Iran and the terrorists.
Cecile Rhodes smirking is right. The world and Mugabe proved him very right with Rhodesia.did you see the photos of Mugabe’s “house”? Makes a palace look shabby.
Also 2008 is right. If the Democrats win the White House we will more certainly fail to survive.
With “W” we still stand a chance.
cheers,
BTW do check http://antimullah.com over the next couple of days. Some really good articles going up.
Don’t know on which of the various pages but Islam and slavery and a couple of good analyses in the works.
If you want to talk about unskilled poor illegal immigrant then Europe is the place to go, even their legal immigrant live in extreme poverty in the vast majority of the cases because they simply do not have the opportunities to get better, Europe in general is struggling to employ its own population therefore they give damn about immigrants legal or illegal.
Europeans drive small cars because gas is expensive, because they have narrow street, and because bigger cars cost much more than here, pure and simple. If they can afford to buy a bigger car like we can here, they would have done it, they cannot. In fact almost everything there cost much more than here because the socialists there chose a system where they put almost every item as luxury item except for very basic home food.
In regards to the decline of the dollar it did not impact our purchasing power as most nations we import goods from have their currency tied to the dollar. An stronger Euro did not increase the Europeans purchasing power of enhance their standards of living that much because their retailers are not dropping the prices of goods accordingly. So we still have a much stronger purchasing power than in Europe and much better standards of living.
Thanks God that America is the World Protector because if USA is not, no one will, and the evil powers such as the terrorists and others will control the world and make our lives much more miserable. The USA as World Protector made our economy better not weaker.
Now after I destroyed your arguments, please go back to DU where you belong.
FARS, I have to believe that we're gonna smackdown Iran, soon and hard. If I'm wrong, then we'll be having another Civil War in the USA while grappling with the muzzie-terrorists already in our Country.
When the bombing starts, China and Russia can either get in-on-the-shoot, or stand down. Their only other choice is to bitch about us, and who cares? We'll be getting the job done ............................... FRegards
If you actually want to answer the restaurant question, don’t cruise the streets but pick up a phone book and look at the yellow pages under Restaurants. You’ll wonder how you ever missed the local eateries you “never heard about.” They just don’t register on the mind as you pass because they don’t have skillions of dollars worth of advertising blaring at you from every media outlet.
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