[Vision2020] BUY AMERICAN BUY WAL-MART

[Tom Hansen]

Jeesh, Arnold!

Your analysis of what you perceive to be the global economy and how it 
functions appears to be EXTREMELY ill informed.  Instead of explaining basic 
macro-economics to you, I will simply let it rest.

A large percentage of that "work" that often results in revenue/income has 
been outsourced.

I know what you're thinking.  You're thinking that outsourcing hasn't hurt 
our economy one bit, that it has enhanced it, that unemployment has not gone 
up - it's gone down.  Well, Arnold, in a way you are correct.  Instead of a 
family living off of one engineer's income at about $75K - $100K, that same 
famly is surviving with two incomes for a combined income of $15/hour, at 
least until their local McDonald's closes down.

And, please, feel free to mangle my name to your heart's content.  If it 
floats your boat, do it.

When I first joined the service in 1969, I was duly informed that my parents 
had been sadly mistaken about my name for the 18 years previous.  A cadre of 
drill sergeants reminded me on a daily basis that my real name is/was 
"S**thead" (among other colorful monikers).  After training, I lost the 
"S**thead" name and simply became "Hansen" to those of equal or senior rank. 
  Subordinates addressed me as "Sergeant Hansen".

So, if it flips your Bic to call me "Hansin", please . . . by all means.  
Tell you what, just for memory's sake, call me "S**thead" once in a while, 
ok?  That way I can take pride in that proverbial wall that separates us.

Take care, Ahnold.

S**thead Hansin


>From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
>To: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>, "'TIM RIGSBY'" 
><tim.rigsby at hotmail.com>,        vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] BUY AMERICAN BUY WAL-MART
>Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:39:04 -0800 (PST)
>
>     We  can always look forward to your comments being entertaining 
>Hansin.
>
>
>   "Yes.  I am interested in improving foreign economies."
>
>   You are, but you are going to do the opposite actions that you know 
>would  create that outcome? Humm, interesting.
>
>
>   "But, my first priorities are at home."
>
>   When we die, do you think the souls are divided up according to 
>nationality  Hansin? Do you think the belly of a fat kid longing for a 
>third helping of ice  cream is equal in need to the empty belly of a child 
>in China or Bangladesh? Do  you think the nationality, race, and/or place 
>of birth of the fat belly should  give it special privilege to third and 
>fourth helpings before a starving child  is given anything? It appears that 
>is your position Hansin. I hope you can  justify to your God your 
>rationalizing of why the fat kid gets a fourth helping  before the starving 
>gets one helping because the fat kid was inside some  imaginary borders.
>
>   Nor could have it possibly have occurred to you that if just half the 
>world's  population consumed as much resources as half the population of 
>the people in  the United States  the Earth's ecological system would 
>collapse inside of 100 years, Hansin.
>
>   "Every product manufactured overseas and sold here in the Nifty Fifty  
>(USA) amounts to lost revenue here."
>
>   Wrong! Guess again. Wealth is not "finite" Hansin. Wealth is  generated 
>through a process called "work". You obviously do not  understand that both 
>a buyer and a seller can benefit from a financial transaction.  In fact, 
>most the time it does and it favors the buyer. You are also clearly  
>unaware of terms like, global economy, "global investment  fund" and 
>foreign investment. Billions of US dollars are in foreign  investments. 
>Foreign nations cannot improve without also simultaneously  improving the 
>US  market, and the reverse is also true. If the world economy declines, so 
>does the  US.
>
>     "Every time we purchase a product manufactured here, it benefits  that 
>manufacturer and its employees, and keep that manufacturer in business  
>that much longer,"
>
>   You got it bass ackwards Hansin. We do not buy products to benefit the 
>seller,  we buy it to benefit the buyer, why else buy it?  DUH! 100 workers 
>work  for 1000000 customers, not the other way around.  I do not buy gas to 
>help  out Exxon and the Saudi families, I buy gas cuz I need it make my car 
>move. I  do not buy a jacket to help out employees at Columbia, I buy a 
>jacket cuz I am cold. We  are better off buying the product that we need 
>and spending the savings on  training the workers to school to learn a 
>trade that is competitive in the  world market. Using your logic, we should 
>subsidize rotary phone manufactures  to keep jobs instead investing in 
>technology to make the microchips that go in  future cell phones. 
>Protectionism is bad form and policy and ONLY protects bad  businesses and 
>business practices, good ones do not need protection. Not to  mention it 
>makes other nations do the same to us. Two thirds of all business  growth 
>is in the foreign market. Tariffs blo!
>  ck 2/3 of
>  our growth to protect  1/3, that is a dumb idea, Herbert Hoover  tried 
>tariffs to soften the depression in 1930, it made it worse. Grover 
>Cleveland tried it the  1890s and set off a recession. It was also tried in 
>the1840s and set off a  recession that helped defeat Martin Van Buren. We 
>tried it Hansin, it did not  work.
>
>    "which means food on the dinner tables of American families."
>
>   Well Hansin, I think from the looks of you, me and the rest of this 
>overweight glutton  nation, we could stand to skip a few meals. Dontcha 
>think?
>
>   Take Care,
>
>   Donovan J Arnold