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Just messing with you Eric.

The old saying is when you owe the bank thousands they own you. When you owe the bank millions, you own the bank. The Chinese are big investors in our country. What's good for us is in their best interest.

Back in the 1980's everyone was getting worried that the Japenese were buying up American real estate, such iconic pieces like Rockerfeller Center. Well they weren't going to take it back to Japan and they ended up over paying for a lot of it. It turned out not to be the big deal everyone thought it was.

I was thinking the American way, and saying to myself, fu we aint paying you back....then what?

63 Skier wrote: You probably can get a gun rack to fit a tower on a Nautique, so you can head out with 2 skis, 2 boards, a 12 gauge and a rifle. !

The FCT flight clips hold M4's and 870 tactical's nicely.

The 600 billion bond buyback may help. My first instinct was very negative about this, but I've read more and it may actually help us in international trade, which is why so many G20 countries were upset about it. The down side is it may trigger inflation here, just more printing of money, but if it moves the foreign trade balance a bit in our favor I'm willing to give it a look.

Hard to even the spreadsheet - it will take decades, but as China's standard of living rises things will balance out a bit. A lot of heavy industry is heading to Vietnam now, and China is building a car factory in Bulgaria so they can sell into EU countries with no tariffs. I don't know how much longer it will be before we see Chinese cars here.

Well .... I only buy American cars, have never owned a foreign vehicle. I try to buy American on what I can, though obviously electronics are hard. I buy Craftsman hand tools, though many are made overseas today, I buy Milwaukee or DeWalt power tools, not sure but I think Milwaukee is still made here. I think we have to do what we can to support the U.S. economy, U.S. jobs.

I lost all hope 63, Corvette as American as apple pie, I opted not to buy aftermarket marker lights for 22 bucks apiece and stepped up to buy OEM at 42 bucks apiece, man was I fcn pissed because they said made in China on the back

We need to unionize China, that would even things out big time. The government buys US, $1,000 screw drivers, $10,000 toilet seats, etc

harddock wrote: We need to unionize China, that would even things out big time. The government buys US, $1,000 screw drivers, $10,000 toilet seats, etc

I got a feeling that the guy who tried that would disappear pretty fast.

I like to see Fred Thompson try again. Or Huckabee..

Na, the american people seen to much change. I think it will be 8 years before you see a demmy again.

you guys could always use the Florida trick again lol

Okie, I wanted to say that
my bud is clipping AT and T, $37.50 straight, 7 days a week, on 12's
splicing cables and you know what? not much to show for it. sorry gary, J-Bear

eric lavine wrote: Okie, I wanted to say that my bud is clipping AT and T, $37.50 straight, 7 days a week, on 12's splicing cables and you know what? not much to show for it. sorry gary, J-Bear

Why does he have nothing to show for it?

I may of been a bit out of context here, I personally dont know what he does with his money......he could be throwing it all in the bank????

eric,

You might be right. He may be living modestly off the straight time and using all the extra time to bank away money. Just working 40 hours a week at $37.50 per hours gets you to $78K a year. If he is working 7 12's he's putting in 84 hours a week, so that extra 44 is 1.5x or 2x wages. That also gets taxed pretty heavy, thanks to our progressive tax system. So the harder your friend works to put away money (if that's what he is doing), the less of it he gets to keep and the more money the government takes. Seems a little backwards to me, ut I'm not a demmy...I think people should all pay a fair share and pay equal percentage of their income all the way up. By the way, if you figure the extra 44 hours at just 1.5x, his yearly income would be over $200K. Now he's reaching the threshhold of income that the demmys consider to be "rich" and want to tax more. Makes perfect sense huh?