Reply #10: Sigh

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A low dollar can improve business for US companies as their products become reletively cheaper in foreign countries. It also makes foreign goods more expensive HERE encouraging people to buy more American products.

Unfortunately, we don't manufacture any thing here. Vast tracks of our infrastructure has been laid to ruin as corporations moved operations over seas, taking advantage of lax laws, lap dog law enforcement, and slave labor pools. Even if Americans WANTED to buy American, they can't, because such a thing hardly exists any more.

For the US to be attractive to manufacturing again, the US labor pool will have to be cheaper than third world countries. Because corporations will gravitate to the cheapest labor pool available. And the US worker has a long way to fall before we even come close.

But even if the US should become more attractive labor wise. You do not build industries over night. It would take decades to fully reconstruct and retool the infrastructure needed for a manufacturing base to even take place.

But rest assured, this will never happen. US corporations are quite quick to tell us that manufacturing itself, is an obsolete business strategy. They tell us so.

On top of that, vacationers don't travel to europe this year on vacation. Do they SKIP vacation? Noooo, they just go somewhere cheaper (which, of course, is likely to be in the US. So that's a good thing.

Ah yes. Stripe searches and having to report in with the Defense Department on a regular bases always draws them in. I remember reading a first hand account, posted on the DU about a Spanish professor who gives a lecture at CAL Tech every year. In 2002, same as every year, he arrived at Dallas international to switch plains. That was when he heard his name paged over the loud speaker telling him to report to the security office. He knew that this was a post 9-11 world, so he thought that they might ask him a few questions, and then let him connect up with his plane.

Nope. Once he was out of the public eye, they tacked him, splitting a cheek against a desk. Then stripped him, and did a cavity search. They then threw him in a tiger cadge with only his underwear. He staid in that cage for two days. His only comfort was a compassionate security guard that snuck him hot dogs rapped in a bath towel. They also struck him with a baton, electrocuted his cage, and sprayed him down with ice water.

They then took his pass port, gave him a t-shirt and sweat pants, and deported him in Columbia. WITHOUT a pass port. He had to call his wife who was waiting for him in LA. He of course filed a formal complete. But as you might imagine, little was done. It turns out that the Air Ports exist outside US law.

I have also herd of this happening to a Canadian citizen. He took a direct flight from London to Ontario, but bad weather forced the flight to land in New York instead. Our Department of Homeland Security was waiting for him when he landed, boarded the plane, and haled him away. He was detained for a week before he was finally repatriated back to Canada. No charges were ever filed.

The fact is that they will not come here, so long as the US is in the grip of fascism. Tourism numbers are already reflecting this. The list of those who are not welcome here, is far longer than those who are,

Now, the people who want to imply that it could be devestating "misunderestimate" the size of the US economy. It's just about impossible that we will see a true meltdown. BUT it could get REALLY BAD- REALLY FAST.

Sorry dude. But the US economy is not too be to contract.