What shall we export. Clothing, no garment industry has been all but shut down due to outsourcing.

Manufactured goods? Do we make anything here anymore? Tools? Washers/dryers? Most appliances are made overseas. Televisions? No. I had to drive 10 miles to buy two crescent wrenches which were made in the U.S. myself. Gladly paid the $32.00.

Until we STOP buying imported goods. Our country will continue to decline. When certain countries couldn’t beat us with cold war tactics, they beat us with our consumer driven goal of lower priced goods and higher bottom line profits for companies.

That’s all well and good if you own lots of stock in companies, cause you’re still making money. What do you care if 2,000 people in the next county over lost their jobs? You’re still making money. Life is good.

EXCEPT….

When you’ve destroyed our countries manufacturing base, for quick stock profits, eventually you get to the tipping point. People who have no jobs can no longer buy goods. It doesn’t matter how low cost they are.

Those politicians, that told us the global economy was good for us, most were stockholders in those companies. Wealthy guys, still making money. Not average Joes, out of a paycheck. The global economy is like exported slavery. Pay someone l7 cents a day over there or $10 an hour here. Hmmmm, quite a quandry for a business man.

Oh, wait…your answer was to export.

What can we make here, paying semi-living wages to most, that those folks making l7 cents an hour will be able to afford? Not much. Except humanitarian aid on which we make well, nothing. Of course, humanitarian aid does make us friendly to them, so when we come there offering the sky-high wages of l8 cents an hour (anyone from 6 yrs. old to 78 yrs. can apply - no age descrimination from our corporations). Get busy working over there, we’ve got a deficit to fix…we’ll be sending some stuff for you to buy soon. Save your pennies cause we’re counting on you.