Posted by paul on December 15, 2011 at 15:03:40 from (76.77.196.252):
In Reply to: OT--Rant for today!! posted by Jiles on December 15, 2011 at 12:40:20:
I understand your frustration. I bought 2 rolls of wire about 5 years ago, sure was better than money in the bank!
I think the issue is more to do with our poor dollar value. Or dollar declined in value a while ago, compared to other countries.
Now, other countries are having real bad issues too, but in the meantime we printed a lot of fake money to try to spend oureselves out of our problems, and declaired we would have very very low intrest for aeveral years. This was an effort to kickstart our ecconomy, but it didn't work well, and instead it's kept us down with the rest of the world. Sometimes that kick-start works so it was worth trying, but this time didn't, and now we are way behind, by spending way more than we take in.
The silver lining is that it hads made our exports look real good - like corn, beans, wheat. We are kinda near the end of that run, but it's been a good 5-6 years or so.
As well, it has brought more manufaturing jobs back here to the USA. It doesn't show up much, but the seeds have been sown, and we should see a little more Made in USA, as well as having a few more manufatured things exported. Long term this is good for USA, and it is a direct result of the poor dollar & high metals, grains, etc.
So, there are some silver linings to this, as frustrating as it can be when you go to the hardware or fuel stores.....
I'd sure hope the govt does not 'do something about it' as it is really the only hope we have, as we have used up most of the other options. It would be a very dark day if the govt takes action on your issues, it would really destroy the USA.
Give it a little time. We lived a little too high up for a time there, now we need to live a little too low for a bit to balance it out. Sucks, but how it has to go...
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