A Short Rant

[Faulkner]

This economy and EVERYONE IN IT are so dependent on government intervention and nobody is willing to face down the gorilla in the room. Stop government spending and we will be in the streets fighting for our lives. I don't have any answers, but I suspect that just buying Buck knives made in the USA ain't gonna even come close to solving the problem. Nobody wants to solve the problem because we all owe our affluent lifestyles to it.

You hit the nail on the head with this one!!!

 

[Straightshooter2]

This economy and EVERYONE IN IT are so dependent on government intervention and nobody is willing to face down the gorilla in the room. Stop government spending and we will be in the streets fighting for our lives. I don't have any answers, but I suspect that just buying Buck knives made in the USA ain't gonna even come close to solving the problem. Nobody wants to solve the problem because we all owe our affluent lifestyles to it.

And the Piper is a coming to town.

Caj, as a political science major, I agree with you wholeheartedly. Robert Heinlein spoke of the Roman civilization destroying itself because the people found out they could vote themselves bread and circuses until the system broke down and so did Rome. Gee look around now. We've done it to ourselves.

My point was simply that, given a choice, I can and will buy American instead of foreign. If I buy a television or computer, I don't have much choice, it's going to be made in China. But if I buy a knife, it's going to be made in the US. If I buy an American Flag to fly in front of my house, it will be made by Annin, if I buy furniture for my house it's going to be from North Carolina or somewhere in the US. If I buy my grandson a baseball bat, it will be a Louisville Slugger made in the US. All I was saying in my rant was that I put the Chinese made knives back on the shelf and bought one made in America. Me buying two Buck knives made in Idaho won't make that much difference. But if I convince two people here to buy any knife (or whatever) made in the US and they convince two people and those convince two people, and so on, it will make a difference.

It was on the news here in Atlanta a couple of nights ago that foreign investors are coming into this area and buying up a lot of these empty neighborhoods that were started and then foreclosed on when the housing market crashed. So when and IF the economy does recover, some people around here may be buying their house from China, too.

I'll stop here also because I don't want this to go from an economic discussion into a political discussion.

CW