...nation which does not manufacture, does not prosper.......A nation of retailers cannot be number # 1 for ever.
Get US jobs back.......No more imports in agriculture.No more imports of basic goods.Be American, buy American. Anybody have the guts to do this.....anybody? Hello?????

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....and the US border should not be a line, it should be a impregnable fortress.....

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I have no idea why the US needs to import agriculture, in terms of natural resources, the US would be among the top 5 countries in the world.

move, get a bunker and hide (i hear there is a recently emptied compund in West Texas) or stay in the real world and cope. The almost dirty pleasure taken from handwringing in doomsday threads gives a clue as to what consumes those who are waiting until their prostate is large enough to become the dominant topic of conversation. Do all a favor: go out, find a friend, enjoy the sun, and talk about anything for the afternoon other than socio-politica-economic concerns. go on. It will do you a world of good.

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HAHA! Great reply Stephew!

i merely unline the difference between reasonable concern about real issues and pundit porn or chicken little syndrome. Honestly if youre in a lather about any of this stuff or startin more threads on the End of Times, its time to have a lite refreshment.

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Ha ha haa, there is not going to be an end of the world, its just that the economic party is going somewhere else, across the Pacific and the Atlantic. Americans are just going to have to become accustomed to a more austere way of the life than what they are currently used to, it might be a difficult transition though.

West Texas? I kind of like the East Coast of Oz if you ask me, this guy parked a brand spankin new Red Ferrari in front of my house, I have never even seen one living for over 20 years in Chicago. I asked him what he did for a living, he said his family owns a meat pie factory.

All this stuff is on the news 24-7 and everyone is talking about it, so how can we avoid even thinking about it?

I am assuming you honestly do not know...

here is the current data from TradeStats Express?

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yea but he is presiding over a declining economy, loss of confidence in the economy, instability in the oil market, higher oil prices that are all directly related to his invasion of the middle east

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The US does export some goods but their value is much lower than the goods that the USA imports, we export movies, McDonald's, airplanes, military equipment. Still there is an wide open 800 Billion Dollar deficit. If you really think the USA is on solid economic ground, think again. People are going to blame Bush, they will probably blame the NeoCons of course, but the real blame has to go to the lavish habits of the American people that have shaped the global economy into what it is today. Much of the developing world manufactures(even much of Europe and Japan lives below their means too) our products and they live way below their means and we live way above ours, something is going to give in a system like that and it already is just happening that way.
The fact is that we now depend on OPEC(Saudi Arabia and company), China, and Japan to prop up our financial system, all three still do that, but its only a matter of time before they stop.
When I was a wee toddler, the USA's standing in the world was pretty much unchallenged. My mom told me in those days, no in their right mind would buy a Honda or a Toyota, in fact those automobiles were among the worst buys compared to Chevy's and Buicks. Today no consumer in their right mind would pick a Chevy over a Honda. We see this across the board as Americans have a penchant for buying more high quality imported manufactured goods, we let our manufacturing base disappear. In the 90s we built the IT industry but now India is pretty much going to own that sector. I actually know what I am talking about with regards to IT I spent nearly a decade in this line of work and a lot of my friends have lost jobs because of outsourcing.
I think though that things can turn around dramatically but the next two decades will be pivotal for the US to take decisive action, it will be make or break time.