[ExI] undercover at Walmart

[painlord2k at libero.it]

Il 14/02/2009 1.03, BillK ha scritto:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Damien Broderick  wrote:

> Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by
> spending your stimulus check wisely:

> If you spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.

Apart the money that go in taxes, to the staff, to the shareholders, the 
money donated, etc.
Also, dollars are useful only to buy stuff in the USA, not in China. You 
need to sell dollars to be able to buy yuans and buy stuff in China. It 
is not like the Chinese will find very useful pieces of paper printed by 
the Fed. If they are not able to exchange them for something they want 
they will not find them so desiderable and useful. It is not that they 
are gold backed or something like this.

> If you spend it on gasoline it will go to Hugo Chavez, the Arabs and Al Queda

A part will go to other places like Alaska.
It could go in California or Florida, if they [were] allowed to dril off 
coast.

> If you purchase a computer it will go to Taiwan.

Apart for the royalties and the profit shares give to US investors.


> If you purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras,
> and Guatemala (unless you buy organic).

I don't understand. In Italy I'm able to buy fruit from California.
It is no more inside the Union? The seceded for Aztlan?

I, also, buy stuff from Amazon (mainly book). Do you say that

> If you buy a car it will go to Japan and Korea.

Apart for the money that go to the workers in the US plants that build 
the car themselves.

> If you purchase prescription drugs it will go to India

Really? I suppose the Pfizef went out of business yesterday and that 
Viagra is not more a blockbuster drugs.

> If you purchase heroin it will go to the Taliban in Afghanistan

And the Mafia, either in New York and Palermo.

> If you give it to a charitable cause, it will go to Nigeria.

You can choose your charitable.

> And none of it will help the American economy.

This way of thinking is simplistic.

> We need to keep that money here in America.

Do you eat T-bill?
Good for the fibers, I suppose, but poor on protein and vitamins.

> You can keep the money in America by spending
> it at yard sales, going to a baseball game, or spend it on
> prostitutes, beer (domestic only), or tattoos, since those are the
> only businesses still in the US.

Last time I checked, the US was big sellers of stuff like planes (how 
many beers do you buy with a Boing 757?)

But, to solve this is not needed to only buy domestic.
What is needed is to re-create a business-friendly habitat.

Do you know why business go away from California and move to Arizona?
For the sea? For the sand? For the lower taxes?
California have a gargantuan debit and deficit. But they don't want 
nuclear power, don't want oil drilling,... they want all paying nothing.

Until this spoiled child's way to think is not corrected, there is no 
way "buy american" will solve the problems. And when will be corrected, 
"buy american" will be irrelevant.

But focusing on "Buy American" show only that some people, think they 
deserve money they have no right to. They think to be special, 
important, superior. They are not.

Mirco

P.S.
I advice you to read Hazlitt "Economy in One Lesson".
It is easy to read, simple and not full of strange ideas.