Think American. That's all there is us for us.

[Jack Sprat]

It's all we ever wanted. Someone came along and said, "let's help Asian markets" or "let's do business in a new Nafta setup". In the meantime, we have exported our once real prosperity to people who we once called our competition in year's past. Now, have we done this to ourselves? Of course not. We aren't completely bananas. We enjoyed our old state of supreme industrialization, technology, and homemade products that others wanted and needed.

So, who was unhappy with our prosperity here in the USA? Well, the Wall Street bankers, clerks, and traders weren't happy. No, because they think in terms of international growth. National growth and prosperity is none of their concern. They like to have companies relocated in third world countries so the products can be assembled cheaper and thus, provide a larger profit when imported back to us for sale.

Wall St, international bankers, international businesses. They are kicking our former wage-earners and taxbase to the ground and stepping on their faces.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. So, when no one has any money, who's gonna buy their cheap Chinese shit?

[Jack Sprat]

2. Just the looters with the big international pockets, of course.

That's what is going on now. We don't have the mills, factories, textiles, and machine shops to create things. We have the Burger King jobs for the HS students, but we don't have the post graduate jobs that dotted our landscape. Not everyone is college material. They have a hard enough time staying in school to get the HS diploma. They have no thoughts about college ed. Since most colleges are preparing students for the business world, many of them have no interest. They want and need to make things and to create a product, a finished good that can be sold to their neighbors. They might go into a 2 year training school to work as an electronics engineer or as a chemist or machine maintenance. But, those are the job field vanishing. Hey, and with the cost of education growing out of proportion, how many can even attend a technical school if they have an interest in one?

[lib2DaBone]

3. True. When no one has a job.. who can buy anything?

.. when no one can afford to pay taxes.. how does this benefit the Politicians? I think (due their overwhelming greed) the Bankster/Gangsters have fouled their own nest.

[Waiting For Everyman]

4. E X A C T L Y ! ! !

And while we're at it, usury laws were a good idea, and let's knock off the short-selling. (ok then, tax them and volume trades)