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Old 08-06-2011, 07:27 AM
 
Location: Sango, TN
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China? there's something like a billion of them milling around.
They have a point. Our trade deficit with China is 1 billion dollars, per day.

They ship us 1 billion more dollars worth of product then we ship them daily.

The US will be fine, we have the money and the demand for goods to make it through this. The EU, I don't know.
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:29 AM
 
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China? there's something like a billion of them milling around.
Yes, all dependent on us providing them the manufacturing jobs that make an economy great -- you know -- all those great jobs we sent them.

Ultra cheap labor cannot afford those products.
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:30 AM
 
Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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They have a point. Our trade deficit with China is 1 billion dollars, per day.

They ship us 1 billion more dollars worth of product then we ship them daily.

The US will be fine, we have the money and the demand for goods to make it through this. The EU, I don't know.
Keep telling yourself that....until the day comes when this nation is irrelevant and not needed AND broke.
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:35 AM
 
Location: The middle of nowhere Arkansas
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Walked down the Champs Elysees recently? I bet not, because if you did, you know it now feels like you were walking around in Saudi Arabia. Muslims in Europe have way higher birth rates than their European counterparts and are definitely gaining political clout in Europe due to their increasing population levels. It's western demise. I'm not saying western demise is bad at all, it's just the way it is going to be. Europe brought this upon themselves when they started importing cheap labor in the 70s and also because of colonization and must deal with the consequences.
It started when they adopted socialism.
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:37 AM
 
Location: The middle of nowhere Arkansas
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You're not from the USA, are you?
I'm from the us. I see nothing wrong with the posts. Lunacy is a pretty good discriptor for our so-called governance in either the us or europe.
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:37 AM
 
Location: Oxygen Ln. AZ
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Oh how the mighty have fallen. The US and Europe are in big time trouble economically and probably won't recover for several decades. People need to accept the fact that we're economically doomed for the next 20-30 years because of all of the complete lunacy policy makers have implemented over the past 20 to 30 years. Couple that with the fact that birth rates in 1st world western countries are declining while birth rates of individuals with Muslim or Asian background continue to be healthy and also with the fact that China will become the #1 global superpower, it may be time to put the nail in the coffin of Western culture. We're being dominated economically, proportionally, and politically.
This will be the cause of celebration amongst some on this board until they realize not one governmental agency has the means to feed and water you. But, let us look at the party that will take place in the streets when this country falls. Whooopie. Dont you wonder why some of the population freaks only scream about the western birth rates and never China or Africa?
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:38 AM
 
Location: Sango, TN
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Keep telling yourself that....until the day comes when this nation is irrelevant and not needed AND broke.
Trying to stay optimistic. America has over 2 trillion in savings setting on the side line. Count that with ending war spending and lowering military spending over all, thats close to 4 trillion that can be injected into our economy.

I think we'll be fine.
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:40 AM
 
Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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Trying to stay optimistic. America has over 2 trillion in savings setting on the side line. Count that with ending war spending and lowering military spending over all, thats close to 4 trillion that can be injected into our economy.

I think we'll be fine.
Savings?THAT is funny...

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the USA not being the preeminent power in the world...is there?

It will simply fall like all other preeminent nations in the past,the only question is how hard the fall will be.
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:40 AM
 
Location: The middle of nowhere Arkansas
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Same for india aswell, both emerging superpowers have growing male female imbalance.
Ironic isn't it. In the west feminists felt it was absoultely necessary to have abortion in order to empower women. This same technology was used by patriarchal societies to...........kill females by the tens of millions.
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:42 AM
 
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This will be the cause of celebration amongst some on this board until they realize not one governmental agency has the means to feed and water you. But, let us look at the party that will take place in the streets when this country falls. Whooopie. Dont you wonder why some of the population freaks only scream about the western birth rates and never China or Africa?
And while China might now produce all the televisions, iPhones, all the materialisitc goodies we can really live without, America produces the corn, the grains, the food for much of the world.

The government doesn't feed anyone, Americans feed many people.

And yes it is curious that the same liberals who are angry with every birth of an American or other Western baby seem so pleased over the extreme birth rates of the Muslims -- who cannot feed themselves much less the world.
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