danielpalos
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Just right wing fantasy? The political reality is, the right wing refuses to end the drug war to pay for health care when we have a general welfare clause not a common welfare clause.Why. Can't you?
If I buy $100 of Chinese goods, I don't consider that a $100 loss. Do you? Why?
Would you be buying it with American money? Well it would be a loss to the value of that American money. Let me explain in terms simple enough that you might understand. When people make things and sell them, the person who made the thing gets the money. If the things being made by Chinese for example are sold here, it is more likely to be the Chinese maker who gets the lions share of the money. Rather than the American economy.\
Let me guess. You like "free trade." Do you really think that a Chinese person who makes 25 cents to 3 dollars an hour is going to be buying much from an American who makes 10 or 20 dollars an hour? Earth to toddsterpatriot. Time to land.
Would you be buying it with American money?
No, I'd be buying it with my money.
Currently, I use US dollars.
Well it would be a loss to the value of that American money.
How is it a loss? I saw more value in the product than I did in the cash, that's why I voluntarily made the trade.
Let me explain in terms simple enough that you might understand.
Yes, your simpleton explanations are humorous, please continue. LOL!
When people make things and sell them, the person who made the thing gets the money.
And the person who bought the thing gets the thing. DERP!
Let me guess. You like "free trade."
Freedom, gotta love it. Except for you, apparently.
Do you really think that a Chinese person who makes 25 cents to 3 dollars an hour is going to be buying much from an American who makes 10 or 20 dollars an hour?
That's an interesting discussion that has nothing to do with your claim that a purchase from China is a loss.
When I buy $20 worth of gasoline, am I losing $20?
Or am I buying the ability to drive my car around, get to work, go to the store, promote commerce generally, live my life specifically?
Is that really how you look at things? Take a shit now, worry about toilet paper later? Let me try to explain things in a way that even you might understand. When you are in debt, you have nothing. You are in debt! Right now, the U.S. is over 18 trillion dollars in debt. Do you know what that means? It means that it may as well be 40 trillion dollars. That in turn means your money is worthless. And the more money you ship off to China by buying their goods, the more worthless it becomes.
Of course, there is a way out of this debt. All we have to do is sell the U.S. to China. So why not. Instead of doing it the slow way you prefer. We a;so have around 61 trillion dollars worth of unfunded obligations. I bet the Chinese could fix that too. All they would have to do is give everybody a water buffalo and a rice patty to shit in. Unfortunately for you, I don't think any of that should be done.
Is that really how you look at things?
Yes. I don't consider a purchase to be a loss.
That's an idiotic viewpoint you hold.
When you are in debt, you have nothing.
Me freely choosing what to spend my money on did not cause the US government to overspend.
Do you know what that means?
The government should spend less.
That in turn means your money is worthless.
My money is not worthless. I buy things with it all the time.
Of course, there is a way out of this debt.
The government should spend less.
We a;so have around 61 trillion dollars worth of unfunded obligations.
The government should spend less.