This Economy Stinks - I thought you were going to make it all better!
More lay-offs today at work. I sure wish Obama would fix all this like he promised. If he would sign the DOT’s new regulation that was supposed to be made law in January, it would sure go a long way to saving my company. But no, he stopped it from going forward and now, here we are…
I don’t expect Obama to heal the economy. But I wish he would at least stop hurting it. Sign 395.16 which will mandate on board computers for certain trucking companies and they will have to find a solution. We are the solution.
As a side note, I think it is funny that my spell-checker wants to fix Obama to say Osama. Microsoft will send out a patch to fix just that. You watch. As soon as Lois Lane reports about this injustice to her Superman, it will get fixed. I promise you.
End of morning ramble.
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“The United States of America has not had a trade surplus since 1975. We have not had a trade surplus with Japan since April, 1976. Every year since 1983 we have been in deficit with Europe. The last time America had a trade surplus with both Russia and China was a very brief period during the Cold War. We have been running ever increasing trade deficits with South Korea since 1998. Our 1993 trade surplus with Mexico is now a 100 billion a year trade deficit. In the 1970’s, 80’s, and much of the 1990’s our trade deficit was never more than one half of 1% of GDP. We now find ourselves with a trade deficit of between 5% and 7% of GDP depending on how you count. From 2002 to 2007 the trade deficit exploded. The only reason unemployment stayed well under 6% is because of the credit bubble. 63% of all jobs created from 2000 to 2006 were housing or credit bubble related. We did not feel the destructive affects of the trade deficit because of this credit bubble. I have concluded from work I have been doing that America will never get unemployment even under 7% with a trade deficit of over 3% of GDP, without a major credit bubble. The U.S. Economy has actually stopped functioning like a real economy. We literally need a credit bubble to function. America must move from the ideology of free trade to the economic policy of balanced trade. Until this structural shift takes place you can bank on the American economy being the laughing stock of the world economy.”
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