Do you think buying foreign goods will eventually bring our economy down?

Question

Buying At Wall Mart Your Honda dealer etc. is it good or bad?

Answer 1

I don't think it is the buying of foreign goods so much that will bring our economy down *further*, so much as it is the policy of CEOs to *outsource* jobs to other nations willy-nilly in an all-out effort to drive both wages and standards of living down to near-African levels of rot, ruin and misery.

Seriously, foreign goods would *not* be a problem if *the Companies* consistently made it a point to a) hire American citizens first, and b) to invest in creating new jobs here and keeping the ones we *have* here. But they *won't* be bothered, as in will not. It is CEO Class, or One Percenter policy to drive our wages down, to drive our *environmental* standards down and to drive our standards of living down so low that we are all but living on a chain-gang, on a plantation again.

And what do conservatives do about it? They hand out tax breaks like *candy*.-__- .

Really, this was their idea all along. Keyword search Google or Yahoo sometime for Ronald Reagan's early, *first year* speeches, from back before he had that "Shining City on a Hill" metaphor *written for him*. See how many times Reagan insists that we "need" our economy and society to be as loose and free-wheeling as *Brazil's*, very specifically he mentions that nation over and over again....

Then Keyword Search the term "favela". That is the Brasilian word for "slum" or "shanty town". THAT is what Reagan, and by extension ALL Neoconservatives, have in mind for the Majority of the Nation. They seek, along with their CEO buddies, their One Percenter crowd, to create a society of Have ALLS (them) and one of Have NONES (most of US). Wherein the top 20% if we are *lucky* live like Lords...while the bottom 80% live in a Plantation State.

*If* we are lucky. If not, it will be more like the top ONE Percent living like GODS while the bottom NINETY-NINE Percent live in a Prison State on the Bottom, allowed neither rest, nor human rights, nor even a chance to *leave*.

Look at the way New Orleans has been *Deliberately* allowed to fall into rot and ruin post-Katrina. Look at *WHO* withheld NEEDED Levee funding at the *Federal* level (and it was a Federal project, courtesy of the Army Corps of Engineers, YES IT WAS DAMMIT!). Look at how the HMOs and their military occupation counterparts just *allow* people to be maimed and *refuse* to aid them, x-raying broken arms but *not even setting them*, among other things.....

THAT is the future your conservatives want for US here in America, while they retreat and HIDE behind their little Gated Communities and hire more Security Guards to keep US Peons away.

Seriously. It's been going on 26 years now. Wake the hell up and OPEN YOUR EYES.

Answer 2

Protectionist policies have been implemented by governments for centuries now. Protectionism means to ban the purchase of foreign good in favor of domestically produced ones. This is protect domestic jobs and industries.

The bottom line with purchasing foreign goods over domestically produced ones is that yes, it will damage the economy. A country's gross national product will decline, creating fewer jobs and less demand for domestically produced goods. With less money in the economy, people will seek mroe value and will purchase more and more foreign goods, so the effect worsens.

Ways to improve on this are to have a great export record. If a country produces great value / highly desired products that people in other countries want, then this can offset the problem of importing too many products. In the case of America, we need to focus more on international tastes and needs so that other countries want our products. For instance, does an Italian really want to purchase a 6.2 liter V8 SUV that does 18 miles per gallon? No.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Probably, eventually. Just one more thing we can tack onto Clinton & his idiot arrogance. He knew that signing NAFTA would bring about the loss of thousands of job. People were TRYING to tell him Not to sign it & why, but being the pompos, self important horses *** that he is HE DIDN'T CARE!!! He did it because "HE" wanted to, with absolutely NO reguard for a single person in this country but "HIMSELF".

Answer 5

Good. Trade is GOOD. Free trade is GOOD.
Our education system is what will bring us down.

Answer 6

If there is some equity, if we are going to import their goods they jneed to import ours.

Answer 7

By itself, no.