said by Bit :

Tell that to China who is pushing "Buy China" in their own stimulus plans.

It seems that the US is the only one worried about participating in the "global" economy. Everyone else is looking out for their own best interests and if it fits the "global" equation so be it and if it doesn't, so be it.

We will never "compete" with the slave wages, zero environmental regulations, lower taxes and near-zero regulatory burden companies face overseas. The 'big sucking sound' is the reality of the global economy bitch slapping the US into 3rd world status.

said by Matt :

So, let China keep their low-wage manufacturing while we create high-paying science and technology jobs. They can continue to make products that are, as Apple puts it, "Designed in California, Made in China" That arrangement works out rather well for us.

said by Bit :

There is nothing stimulating about these pork bills. It is paybacks to public employee unions and giveaways to foreign companies who make the products going into these projects. Joe Taxpayer ain't gettin' nothin' but the bill.

Meanwhile we have quadrupled out deficit spending and will double the national debt within a decade with the result being debt service costs that will bankrupt us.

We were told if we passed this insane pork spending, unemployment would be halted at below 9%. Now we are at 9.4% quickly heading toward 10%.

Our problems were caused by excessive debt and over-leveraging. Doing more of the same isn't going to fix it. ALL it will result in is INSANE debt and hyper inflation.

You want the rest of the nation is total fiscal collapse like Kauleefournya...keep spending asswipes.

said by russotto :

I'm not sure what good math and science will do, perhaps we can export engineers to countries which still can make things?

said by Matt :

The sooner we realize that we are moving to a global economy and the money is no longer in manufacturing, the better off we'll be.