Originally Posted by BadBrad

Were all fucked! We got to happy with our cheap shit from Walmart, our economic cars from Toyota, Honda, and our new found technology.

Step back from your computer for a second and really look around your room. How many items can you name off that were made here in the US? Me, myself, the only thing I could say is possibly the paper my bills are printed on and the house I am sitting in. Everything else is made from other countries. You may ask what does this have to do with anything, but it has a lot to do with everything. We have taken our own jobs from ourselves by lavishing ourselves with cheap goods. Some not so cheap as in my plasma TV's but that just made Samsung that much more money. We need to return some of those jobs here to stimulate our own economy.

You have the Walmart's, the Starbucks, the Home Depots, the McDonalds and may other large chains that have driven out the small guys. Just in december the last music store here finally closed his doors after almost 30 years because he could not compete with the Best Buy and the other cheap chains. Your comment will be that they bring jobs. Yes they bring jobs, but they also take jobs away. And when they go crash, Circuity City for example, they lose a lot more jobs. It's no more a share of wealth in the US. It's large conglomerates getting richer and richer.