Great plan but I noticed the guy's using a Hitachi nailer in the vid. :doah:
Its a quality tool.
Made in Japan by someone who earns a decent living is not all bad.
Your never going to turn the clock back to the 50s and 60s.
That was never a normal condition in the first place.
Think about it:
Japan and germany were both in ruins, as was most of Eroupe. Those who were not Under Stalins yoke were never players in industrial production to begin with.
But it was not an issue because resource prices were in decline, energy was cheap the USA exported to every nation on earth because everything was in short suply because of the war reconstruction.
The real change began in the 1970s with the return of eroupe and japan as industrial powers.
The real end to industrial expansion began then and the decline followed in the 80s.
Its only now that you have run up these big debts that you can borrow anymore to fuel growth.
Those post war conditions will never return.
Deregulation and free trade simply sped up the process.
Thats capitalism, thats the way it works unless you create a trading block to exclude cheap labour from places like China from atracting all the manufacturing jobs.
If everyone was on the same level we would have a lot less problems right now but I donp;t think that will happen untill we decline to the level of China and India while they try and catch up.
But thats another thing that can't happen since there are not enough resources for 7 billion people to live an American style standard of living.
Sorry if I sound negative, but its going to be a long hard fight to keep from falling back further and its only if we are lucky that will will manage to tread water.
Things are a little different up here.
We have resources, energy and are a net exporter.
But these things will only last so long before we face a simmilar decline in standard of living and employement. Might even happen sooner if we sell out everything to multinationals at the rate we are loosing buisnesses up here.
Thats all
No more negativity.
But its a very simplistic view that buying American will solve all your problems.
Number 1 problem is the USA must import everything from Oil to Iron, just like China this causes suply shocks and high inflation.
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