GM = Government Motors ???

[zdunklee]

So you are advocating price controls? Who decides which products should be price controlled and which ones shouldn't? Oh this is a self answering question right now, cause it will be Democrats in the House and on the Hill that will get this say. And don't think that price controls are not in the works because I guarantee they are. Krystal, may I ask what products your company produces? Doesn't it scare the Hell out of you that the idiots on Capitol Hill may one day be mandating YOUR business?? What ever it is?

Well, my company produces lawsuits. But I used to work for a manufacturing company that made rubber hose parts for GM (which my mom worked on - she's been laid off), Ford (where I worked), Chrysler (sister), Jeep, and Honda. I'm not saying prices should be mandated, I'm saying that they should have to pay to outsource so isn't so much a viable option.

As I think I have noted before, the reason America became a big, strong, handsome country was through industry. Which we do not have so much of anymore.

For example, last month when China proposed a bailout, the stock market went up. Why? People are idiots. The Chinese do not obtain enough goods from us to really affect our economy. We obtain from them, not so much the other way around.

What I do not understand is why we have become what my Dad calls a "Service Country" because we make fewer and fewer goods. A majority of the big businesses we have now have nothing to do with creation of goods. We have become an importing country rather than an exporting one.

It's cyclical: 1)You create jobs; 2) You make stuff; 3) People with jobs buy stuff.

Why should anyone be rewarded for exporting jobs?

Krystal, we have become a service economy because we are simply catching up to Europe and many other developed nations. Those nations have been service based for many years already and in most history the longer a nation is around the more service based it becomes. China is currently where we were in the 1950's and 60's as far as manufacturing is concerened and eventually if everything that normally happens to countries holds true will also become a service economy. Most entry level econ classes now teach that this is what happens, which is where I learned all this from.