tweedledee wrote on September 20, 2009 09:57 PM: Profits on cars are miniscule compared to the wages and investment of the country they are assembled in. Volkswagon is building a plant in Tennesee that will employ 2000 or so yet it is figured they could generate as many as 10,000 more jobs in the US. The money those workers get paid is what creates those new jobs and those jobs create more new jobs. Forget about the profit that goes back to wherever and look at the payroll that is spent here. Michigan is a basket case because those auto payrolls funded many other jobs that disappeared when the plants closed.

The problem with trying to buy American is how do you know it's American? Many manufacturers don't print the product origin on the box or product. I recently bought auto parts online that were from top names in the industry. Made in China. Go to any top name auto parts store in the country and odds are much of what they sell was made in China. I work for an old line company that supplies products that are found in most homes in the country and they are chock full of Chinese, just like our competitors. We have our own plants in China to make parts. I believe you only need 60 to 65% American content to label a product as made in the USA.

Built in America wrote on September 20, 2009 08:48 PM: Wade what your saying is stupid your either ignorant or maybe racist remember I said maybe! So what your saying is if GM starts exporting the cars made in there Chinese factory back to the USA then you will buy the cars made in China because the profits will come back to the USA? Just like thousands of other USA companies who send our jobs over sea or next door. If you want to support American jobs buy products made in the USA it don't matter who owns company shareholders own the company and they can be from anywhere. Why wouldn't you buy from a company that invest billions of dollar in plant, manufacturing, R&D, network of supplies, distributors and retailer all in the USA. My uncle works for Nissan in Tennessee and it allowed him to buy a house take care of my cousins and vacation in Vegas! That’s what’s wrong with the mentality of many Americans today. Many of my coworker think like Wade because through there own admission they don’t like people who are not white and just for your info I’ am.

Joke of the Day!! wrote on September 20, 2009 03:55 PM: What is the difference between ACORN and an Escort Service?

Answer: nothing. Each deal with Prostitutes and Tax Evasion. The Escort Service however deserves more respect as it is not tax funded.

ps: Jim Jones, the founder of Jonestown and Koolaid, was a Democrat. Commune-Communism. Implosion.

newsbreak wrote on September 20, 2009 03:35 PM: Iran replaces Dollar with Euro in FX

"Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in the country's foreign exchange accounts."

http://presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=106669§ionid=351020102

Expect a war very shortly.

winston smith wrote on September 20, 2009 02:33 PM: In their zeal to manipulate us into a one-world government, the fascist/globalist banksters that own the Federal Reserve have purposely encouraged our manufacturing base to be moved to foreign countries, especially Communist China, where wages are kept artificially low.

This has helped create the ridiculous trade imbalance, which the false "free-traders", using the WTO, NAFTA and GATT, take advantage of in order to lower the average American's standard of living, making it more likely to happily merge us with Canada and Mexico in the North American Union.

The klepto-republicrats in the federal government are bought and paid for by the globalists, and will continue in their economy-destroying ways, hoping the that citizenry does not realize what is going on until it is too late.


"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

What stupidity! wrote on September 20, 2009 01:41 PM: Common Sense, you're an idiot!

KD wrote on September 20, 2009 11:54 AM: Bravo, Common Sense!

Particularly the "print money" phase of this deluded cycle is going to come to a halt in an instant. Already the UN has called for replacing the US Dollar as the currency of record. China has stopped buying US Treasury Notes as they are almost at the stage that they fear we will NEVER pay them back. And if we keep spending like drunken sailors, we will be unable to pay back our obligations, especially Social Security and Medicare.

Government officials and party hacks can claim "the recession is over" because of slowdown of declining economic indicators, but a decline is a decline, even if the acceleration of that decline is easing. When another million ARMs readjust on commercial and residential real estate, the other shoe will drop with a thud. When we have no viable economy, where will the tax revenues come from then?

gunowners4obama wrote on September 20, 2009 10:33 AM: The only thing made in the US anymore is meth, hookers, tattoos, and crappy cars.

Thank you unions!"

Unions? You're blaming unions? How about thank you CEO's who now make 300 times the pay of their company's average worker, when a few decades ago it was about 30 times. How about thank you federal government that promotes, supports and massively subsidizes big business, even when it relies on Chinese workers? How about the Walton family with its jets and multiple homes, its failure to offer decent health insurance to its workers so that they end up costing the taxpayers, its lousy salaries, its poor-quality, made-in-China products, etc.?

Yet Americans will still shop at Wal-Mart and screw our own country so they can save a couple of bucks. If you're so poor that Wal-Mart is necessary for you to survive, then stop having kids.

And that's where the meth and the hookers and so on come from- not unions, but parents who shouldn't be parents. (Unions? How do you blame unions for bad parenting? What kind of twisted thinking can blame employees' rights organizations for meth, tattoos, and whatnot? You are weirdly brainwashed by the right.)

How about thank you government for subsidizing poor parents who shouldn't have kids in the first place? As long as this keeps up, we know what will keep happening. It shouldn't be paying poor people subsidies when they have kids; it should be paying them to NOT have kids.

Then maybe the kids who are born here to parents who can support them would have the resources and educations they need to have a chance to grow up and overthrow kings like Sam Walton.

But you right-wingers don't believe in birth control and abortion, right? Keep spewing out the little ignorant ones. And then blame unions.

HELEN WEILS wrote on September 20, 2009 10:29 AM: AS LONG AS WE ALLOW GREEDY UNION THUGS TO DICTATE HOW MUCH THEY WILL GET PAID JOBS WILL GO ELSEWHERE. HELL, WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD PUT UP WITH THEIR BS???

why doesn't this newspaper answer the tax questions it has been asked ? wrote on September 20, 2009 10:24 AM: Here's what the Constitution says about taxes:

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