The Economy

[rwh11385]

Yup. InBev, which already had ties with AB anyway. So the humorous reasoning has some holes in it, but it's a global economy. Their money comes here too. But a lot of our stuff is ag or services, not necessarily the same as the manufactured goods we receive with lower unskilled labor costs abroad.

http://www.unzco.com/basicguide/c8.html

Travel and tourism
Transportation services
Architectural, construction, and engineering
Education and training services
Banking, financial, and insurance services
Entertainment
Information services
Professional business services

Spend $600 on an accountant, a trip to ski, see a movie, etc and it's going to mostly stay here.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Not much beer production is owned by Americans any longer. Not that it's a horrible thing, but either South African, Canadian, or Belgium.

Buy a Scooby, it's likely made in Indiana. (even if profits go to JPN)

Being as Budweiser just got sold to the Stella Artois family of breweries.

[rwh11385]

The only way to keep that money
here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since these are
the only products still produced in US. I've been doing my part.

Not much beer production is owned by Americans any longer. Not that it's a horrible thing, but either South African, Canadian, or Beligum.

Buy a Scooby, it's likely made in Indiana. (even if profits go to JPN)

[nando]

it's funny because the BC government did something similar - they gave out $100 to everyone with the intentions that people would use it to reduce carbon emissions. something like 75% of recipients spent it on gas. $6/gallon gas & carbon taxes FTL. goverment & BS politicians can kiss my ass.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Yeah, mine will be paying the 2008 debt.

[nando]

In respect to Stimulus Checks... (Mine was supposed to be recieved by 06-13-08, still have not recieved BTW)

my "free" money, that actually came from my taxes, went to.. pay my taxes.

[Farbin Kaiber]

In respect to Stimulus Checks... (Mine was supposed to be recieved by 06-13-08, still have not recieved BTW)

'The federal government is sending each of us a $600 rebate.



If we
spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money goes to China.



If we spend it
on gasoline it goes to the Arabs.



If we buy a computer it will go to
India.



If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico,
Honduras an Guatemala.



If we purchase a good car it will go to
Germany.



If we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan and none of
it will help the American economy.



The only way to keep that money
here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since these are
the only products still produced in US. I've been doing my part.

[808AWD325xi]

Nuke them all, eventually they will see things our way. :borg:

[Eric]

You know what is ruining/will ruin the US and global economy? Environmentalists. Not GWBoosh, not OPEC, not Obama, not HRC, not our mindless politicians on the hill... the environmentalist left.

You can thank them for everything from the high prices of gasoline to the high cost of food, the water you bring into your home, the heating bill, etc.

Does this mean we shouldn't use alternate engergies and prattice sustainable living? no. but case in point... locally on the OR coast they finally caught onto the concept of wave farms (something that has been in use in Scotland or Ireland I believe for some time). They wanted to put one in out here that would power X number of communities on the coast without hurting the environment (no waste, completely clean - or nearly completely, and is completely sustainable). So what happens? Some environmentalist whacko decided to go about the process of doing everything legally possible to block the usage of wave farms citing that it would look bad, could kill fish, not a viable option, and generally impacts the environment. WTF!? These same people are opposing natural gas lines, wind farms, hydro power, etc... all of which helps get the US population off of oil for things other than cars.

It worries me that we have the capability to do these things, and then the lack of application of these technologies will only further cripple the country. If you think that big oil is out to hurt the country, think again. Find your local environmentalist tree sitter, and thank them for killing the US economy and damaging global financial markets.

SO TRUE!!!


fucking hippies...

[Eric]

His main point was that one reason the U.S. is hurting so badly is because we are privatizing everything, and its costing us a great deal of money.
peace.

4 pages in, and this is the best thread i've read on r3v and on the internet in a long time!

anyways, i see this happen on my base all the time. we kick out hard working american airman and fill the spot with a german national that makes way more money.

for instance, to register cars, 4 cops (airforce security police) used to handle the liscense plates, as well as I.D. cards, line badges, and other secure encryption type things. they were open from 0700-1600 with no lunch.

Now there are 4 germans working there, they are only allowed to do the liscense plate processing, and guess what, they are now open from 0800-1530, and they stagger there lunch. so when i have to bust ass on my lunch to go by there office, i'm greeted by 20 other hardworking airman who are waiting for the one german not on shift to process the line.

on another instance, i know of a person who works at the gas station as a german national even though her father is american. she started working there as a dependent making $1200 a month, then she found out if she quit and re-applied as a german national (her mom is german) she would be paid 1800 euro as well as full benifits! FOR THE SAME EXACT JOB!!!

I'm no econ major, but my take on this is the air force see's a huge expense in manning. if they can cut that out and use the general governemnt budget to pay for non critical services (like the liscense plate people) then that makes the airforce look better. So in the end the airforce looks better, but it's really fucking the american people more.


buying cheep shit, oil, is fucking us too. the above is just something i've observed on the micro scale

[uofom3]

You know what is ruining/will ruin the US and global economy? Environmentalists. Not GWBoosh, not OPEC, not Obama, not HRC, not our mindless politicians on the hill... the environmentalist left.

You can thank them for everything from the high prices of gasoline to the high cost of food, the water you bring into your home, the heating bill, etc.

Does this mean we shouldn't use alternate engergies and prattice sustainable living? no. but case in point... locally on the OR coast they finally caught onto the concept of wave farms (something that has been in use in Scotland or Ireland I believe for some time). They wanted to put one in out here that would power X number of communities on the coast without hurting the environment (no waste, completely clean - or nearly completely, and is completely sustainable). So what happens? Some environmentalist whacko decided to go about the process of doing everything legally possible to block the usage of wave farms citing that it would look bad, could kill fish, not a viable option, and generally impacts the environment. WTF!? These same people are opposing natural gas lines, wind farms, hydro power, etc... all of which helps get the US population off of oil for things other than cars.

It worries me that we have the capability to do these things, and then the lack of application of these technologies will only further cripple the country. If you think that big oil is out to hurt the country, think again. Find your local environmentalist tree sitter, and thank them for killing the US economy and damaging global financial markets.

[monoblanco]

good interview:

http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=14813

[DCColegrove]

...What it comes down to I guess, is that it doesn´t matter where we live or who we elect. We always get screwed in the end.

Now that, is quote worthy.

[NC325iC]

inflation is a bitch aint it

[rwh11385]

Yeah, but Americans never consider what is going on in the world, and get upset when their status quo changes when they thought it would last forever. Instead of taking pro-active steps in the past decades to have cars that use less gas or find a replacement for gas, we wait until it negatively affects us, we start bitching, then make a few steps.

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

So what is the Hillary Clinton solution to high gas prices? Incentives for making a change in vehicle or consumption? No, elimination the gas tax temporarily.