There is no solution. USA needs another career.

There is no reason to stimulate an economy that couldn't make it in the first place. We need to find a unique way to make money. We will never be able to compete with foreign cheap labor. All the stimulus packages are doing is lining the money chests with more money. The stimulus has to be toward finding a way for the USA to make money. We can't compete on the world market with what we have. The USA has to act like a laid off worker and start to find a way to produce something that they want that can't be copied. Think about it. If you step back and look at the situation, it needs to be changed, not loaned more money.

j/k Alaskans.

I really don't think the world needs more weapons.

Unfortunately we seem to be determined to pour every dime we can raise into propping up the system that has proved itself to be fatally flawed, as opposed to leveraging our assets and skills.

We are, collectively, so foolish that we just keep borrowing to buy more of a declining market cause we "just know" that it will come back if only we can put enough into it.

It is time (way past time, really, but it is now evident to the most economically ignorant) to reassess how our system is designed and re-invent it to better serve us. We seem to have forgotten that this is our country and we get to make the decisions.

When the house is burning down, the first thing you must do is save yourself so that you are able to help others.

USA

We need jobs in the U.S. now. The Chinese can't build bridges in New York, nor can they educate our children. The stimulus package will help us do both of those things.

Care to share whatever it is you are smoking?

:smoke:

-Laelth

and bullet proof vests. Bridges and schools are nice, but they are a service function. Income needs to pay for it. That means something to sell. We have nothing to sell. The USA needs to start a epic proportioned move to learn a new trade.

Am I not expressing this idea clearly?

:shrug:

-Laelth

has done nothing to protect us from China.

recycled resource development, clean affordable transportation. Also we know hemp would truly save this economy.

This, and tax relief for green companies, homes and farms.

Wind Power BLOWS.

See the following:
http://www.keepersoftheblueridge.com/faqs.html
http://www.nortexwind.org/index.htm
http://www.stopillwind.org/index.php
http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/
http://www.savewesternny.org/
http://www.epaw.org/

Or just watch this series of videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNxvkrgoPLo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_utFV2ukOtU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOd5tSZF3A4&feature=related

There's more, but you get the idea. :)

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

It is ridiculous for the amount of space they take up to produce such little power.

Their environmental impact is also very high. And intermittent, unpredictable power is useless. The power companies buy their electricity only because they have to. They do nothing to reduce carbon emissions.

:dem:

-Laelth

n.t

Things that are truly cheaper then will still be cheap and we can buy them...

Stuff that is not competitive or reasonable will return to place that it is...

For example there should be cotton garment manufacture here as we produce a hell of a lot of cotton. So does Pakistan. Countries like the US and Pakistan had their industries sunk by the race to the bottom. China is only in the business because of the literal slave labor to produce it.

Fair trade, not free trade and RATIONALIZE the system.

Place a tax on imports that reflects value of item compared to similar USA item.

has been nearly everyone's career. Some to barely survive, some to rule the world.

Actual value - of life and product - has been sacrificed.

Is it time for people to find their passion and - despite the rough times - try to live doing what they do best and doing what they enjoy?

There are always opportunities.

Always.

People must eat, kitchens need dishware, babies need toys, brides and grooms need invitations and photographs, cars need tires, children need stories, gardens need plants, and there is an endless demand for soap, candles and tools.

Local, quality, value are three key words to ponder in this economy.

Some are stuck due to circumstance but many can produce quality products and provide reliable service - without Corporate interference - right here, right now.

That is the first thing everybody mentions when they talk about stalking up.