what do you think about the trade deficit? do you consider it a problem? If so how do we fix it?

I consider it a major problem.. we can only find Chinese made products in our stores, and every category of product is made in china..
America gained it's rep by making the best products and they cost more than the rest of the world products becase we had the best labor and the best materials.. to make them..

We must fight our congress people.. when they want to allow companies to go off shore and do nothing but turn us into a retail market for foreign manufacturered products.. How... we insist on buying quality products.. not this cheap fancy painted plastic that we get from China... we save for what we want and stop accepting these products that end up on the curb waiting for the trash man in 3 months.. and you can't use the warranty becase it cost more to send it back and wait than it does to re buy the same garbage..

We fight our congress people to stup pushing legislation that allows companies to move off shore at a whim.. and the only people making money are the executive level while they want to pay pennies to the ground floor workers who package and sell this stuff to the public... and there has been no time in history has a ""HIRED"" CEO's ever made 10-30-100 million dollars a year... while the public is cut in services offered and sold substandard products..and these people do nothing but occupy a seat and agree to sell off american.. for their own 'QUICK" gains.. America was built based on long term value.. but they have turn it into a fast buch .. quick change arena.. and nothing that functions as such will every have stability.. not longevity or managed progress and remain a community within a nation.. supporting entity... they are on a fast track of demise... and then they sell of and outsource and then dismantle...

who suffers .. is the American people.

We need corporate legislation that limits what a CEO can earn... he is many times not the owner of the compnay but HIRED HELP... and that does not make him a god .. and he should not be paid to ""sell out "" the labor pools which keep america functioning.. But we let these politicians get in office who are bought by fancy talk and opulent dinners and resort meeting and then treat them as kings... They are only PUBLIC SERVANTS.. we need to know what that means.. and they should stop bowing to these CEO and the CEO's should be hired based on Integrity and long term stability.. not about how quick they turn a buck.. they should have dignity that supports what is a nation.. not driven to make the fastest buck at the greatest expense to the american people.. for the sake of corporate ego matches.. but build for the stability of a nation...

our value is gone.. and sold out by the gluttons.. and this country is foolish enough to glorify them when they are the cause of our demise in a great part thru their ignorance , arrogance and their lack of integrity and regard for and of America.. they worship the dollar and have no awareness of the rule nor law of God... and that is the service to humanity.. not to .. the greed of misdeed.. and the greed of bleed and destroy .. and constructive demise of a nation.

We need better import and export controls... not the mass circumventing that exist.. where china can sent things thru our customs at the quota level.. but """turn around and send twice as much via NAFT routes.. """ and thus flood our markets with products. by having them assembled in mexico where they do nothing but snap on a tag... and put a few pegs together..

We have allowed the world to see us as a dumping ground... and we suck it up.. with out limited dollars and then think we are getting a deal.. while at the same time we sell out ourself. thru our purchases of this crap.

EACH % POINT in our deficit denotes the diminishing of the american labor pool and the demise of the american products on our shelves.. Each % point shows the imbalance of capital that moves across our borders, and then it also represents the loss of capital it takes to get that money back into the country... but all the while we become weaker and forced to buy the cheaper products.. making us function like a giant.. Nation of not difference than a NATIONWIDE WAL MART... filled with dollar stores that market Foreign products.. you go to your corner market and there's mass products that are foreign made.. you go to your average dept store and eerything up to 70% or greater of the products are made in China..

and we wonder why we have to work for min. wage.. and the factory jobs are not secure.. and the nature of what is benefits is nearly non existant..

We are not as people paying attention... we not only allow foreign makers to build cars here.. then we let them import them too... so at some point.. how do we think our industry can survive.. we are being flooded within and from without.. and the nature of the standard of living and the expense that it takes to meet that standard do not match.... so we have a mass of society that is living at the poverty level and those above it are living in debt to maintain a level that appears above poverty.. but they can't and don't save and they have not got "THREE months of saving to bail themselves out if an unplanned emergency happens.. it's maybe they are one to two pay checks ahead of being bankrupt..

and now they say... OH... you have a 401K.. well if you can't contribute to it.. then you have " 0 " toward your retirement

We as people must become more aware and not think we can cost any longer on assumption and false presentation of america being and doing well.. just pay attention to your life, your enviornment and the conditions that are in progressive demise... all around you...

there are closed signs all over the place.. and abandon business and shipped away factories..

because our government set the tone for the jobs to be shipped away.. and these fresh out of college kids.. trying to make a name for themselves can only think.. outsource.. to get their pat on the back and line their pockets.. and who sufferers ... is the american citizen. some of these kids never held a job in their life... other than at daddy's friends firm.. and yet they are allowed to run business in this country... it's truly very sad.. they don't even go thru apprentice ship.. they go to executive leadership and the more of them get there the more this country falls and it's values erode.. and we are run by fast talking say nothing.. political correct ambiguity .. in then cover my tushy mode.. of process.. and american

is lost and confused and pulling straws.. and coming up short.

the people who make the most off of turning our nation into a retail shop for foreign products.. they don't buy that crap.. you don't see any high level executives in Wal mart.. or any dollar store.. they want quality.. they search out and find.. quality American products that last and only deal with foreign products that are not flooding the general market..

they don't and won't let their hired help even shop at these places and bring this stuff in their home..

Truly the Nation should boycott ... Wal mart.. until they began to sell ""50% AMERICAN PRODUCTS MADE IN AMERICA""".. in their stores..

you go in there and you almost can't find a product made in America.. but they want to push the illusion they are Americas greatest friend..

they run our american farmers who supply our Brookshires and our Krogers out of Business with their SOUTH AMERICAN vegetable section...
AND THEN BID OUR FARMERS DOWN TO THE LOWEST .. NO PROFIT MARGIN".... which causes our farmers to be strapped and then require government subsiding to remain in business.. by getting our tax money.. just to say they exist..


all this is becase the American public is UNAWARE.... AND UNINFORMED AND DO NOT PAY ATTENTION.. TO THEIR OWN CONTRIBUTING ACTS.. OF IT'S OWN DEMISE.