Glad to see all that time and money is going to really help the poor and impoverished of their country,
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and our prez wants us to have those too.The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
William Pitt-Comment
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We've signed a free trade deal with them.
Chinese are coming. Question is, how do we deal with it....sigpicComment
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Buy our shit from the US and Canada and what is made in your home country as much as you can. its all you can do. Unfortunately its driven by 99% of people wanting the cheapest shit possible regardless if you can service it or if it lasts more than the 90 day warranty.
Vote with your money and who you buy shit from, it wont stop them, but if enough of you are doing that, it may slow them down a whileThe American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
William Pitt-Comment
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Well, that's a lovely idea but, it ignores reality.
We cant avoid buying Chinese goods. Trade liberalisation policy since the '80s has killed local manufacturing, so there are very few locally made products, and those that remain are under such pressure that wages have plummeted to the point where your products are no longer affordable to the great unwashed.
Further more, why should we feel any responsibility to buy US or EU goods when your Govt tariffs our exports to the moon and subsidises your farmers up the wazoo?
This is the reality of international trade relations outside of your country. And what happens to other relations once China surpasses US trade importance?<This is the really interesting question.sigpicComment
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It's actually incredibly difficult to buy american anymore.. it takes a lot of research to find the most basic of things.sigpic
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we have the very same issues here at home too. As far as our farmers, I totally agree with you. Speaking of subsiding farmers, was it not OZ a few years ago that was subsiding the living shit outta corn for ethanol fuel, and drove your corn based goods way off the charts???? Dont feel bad we are doing the same thing in this country too.The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
William Pitt-Comment
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I'm not 100% sure but I don't recall spikes in corn prices. I'm under the impression that most Aussie ethanol is made from sugar cane(?). They subsidise that heavily.
I've never understood the whole subsidising biofuels bullshit myself.
But meh, I grow corn in the backyard myself ha.sigpicComment
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"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the [federal] government." ~ James Madison
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen" Barack ObamaComment
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As far buying locally made, we attempt to do that where we can and we try to buy local produce (we should try harder) where we can also, but you end up pissing in the wind against a tide of cheap crap from asia and a population who are too stupid to realise themselves.
PS, I did buy a John Deer mower, made in the US and tough as old boots. Probably should have bought a local one, but wasn't aware there was such a thing ha.sigpicComment
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A little off topic but I would love to hall ass through one of those ghost citys in my e30 or a supermoto or something.Comment
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That is absolutely incredible! Reminds me of Chernobyl or what will become of alot of areas in japan after their nuclear disaster
Edit: Some more talk of this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h7V3Twb-QkComment
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