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Patriot · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 471

Having just celebrated our nations independence day, I was just sitting here wondering what it is we are independent from in this year of 2006.

I'd say we are pretty dependent on foreign countries thanks to both the Democrats and Republicans infatuation with free trade agreements.

America is dependent on China for clothing and the entire range of consumer goods from toys to electronics. American companies are dependent on China for cheap labor. We also depend on China to buy our treasury bills to keep our currency afloat. I believe that China owns 40% of American debt. China could easily crush our economy if they decided to put that debt back on the open market.

We are dependent on India for call centers, medical chart analysis, Medical transcription, computer programmers, and other white collar labor.

We are dependent on the Middle east for oil.

We are dependent on Mexico for cheap labor in many industries. We are also dependent on Mexico for fresh vegetables in the winter time.

The result of all this is Americans lost good paying jobs and the U.S. Treasury looses billions every year in taxes that would have been paid had all that work stayed here in America.

This nation has offshored and outsourced the very things that made us the greatest on earth.

If this trend keeps up, perhaps illegal immigration will solve itself, seeing as there wont be any jobs here left to cross the border for.

This should break every Americans heart.

Patriot

Dream · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 427

Patriot I agree completely. Thats why I have recently even brought up the business agreements made with so many of these companies and how they betray those too. It is what made us the super power. And it has all been handed away. Now we are just Super Welfare to the world.
And most of us aren't to far from needing it ourselves.

I knew little things were going. Things like key chains from Japan, then it was other trinkets fron Japan. But, I am a quilter. When I saw all the textile factories leave the US some 15 to 20 years ago I about fell over.
Since then it has been our prized technoligy, prized electronics, cars you name it.

Bootsie · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 492

Absolutely right, Patriot. We are independent of NOTHING. We would COLLAPSE if we had to be independent of all foreign goods and services.
Maybe we should have celebrated "DEPENDENCE DAY" rather than "Independence Day" on July 4th. What a sad state of affairs we now find ourselves in.