Obama Hoover like? Really? Wow, just wow. That's like saying Reagan was actually commie bastard.
When in doubt ignore facts and attack, attack, attack! Something will surely stick to the wall at some point.
I wonder where and when there will be a breaking point? I'm not sure the tea baggers are all wrong. I mean other then blaming Obama for the debt and spending racked up by 8 yrs of GOP rule I think their onto something. We're spending it faster then we can print it it seems. How long can that go on? I keep having this reoccurring nightmare where i wake up and the yen and dollar are one to one. Of course that will make paying off China easier.
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Originally Posted by james t kirk
True.
It's a race to the bottom.
We have closed all the factories down and moved all those decent paying jobs to China in the name of cheap shit.
My parents bought a Maytag Washing Machine in 1977 for about $5 or 600 bucks. It was made in North America and it lasted 30 years.
I could walk into Home Depot tonight and buy a similar Maytag TONIGHT and it would cost about $600 bucks. It will be made in Indonesia though and it might last 5 years if I am lucky. People would have a fucking heart attack if they had to pay $1,500.00 for a fucking Washing Machine now (cause that would be what $600 from 1977 brought forward would cost).
All those poor bastards working at Maytag in Ohio have been laid off. Gone are the $20.00 an hour jobs. Replaced by minimum wage working at the Walmart.
Nobody wants to pay the freight anymore.
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This is true too. The only thing the US seems to make any more that the rest of the world wants are movies and TV shows. It's almost as if you're not doing that at some point you end up a Wal-Mart stocking shelves with stuff made elsewhere. How can a country survive like that?