On 12 Nov 2003 14:29:05 -0600, geoff merryweather
wrote:

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 05:23:40 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


But, either way, it drives me up a wall when someone from another country
bitches about how they're being mistreated in trade with the US, when, in
almost every such case, they're running some huge trade surplus with us.
We have been throguh this one before - you neglect the foriegn direct
investmetn by US companies with the repatriated profits - which
doesn't show up in the trade figures.
Secondly, you forget that the US citizens (the world's greatest
consumers) buy the stuff. You may bitch about imports, but if no one
bought it....
Geoff

Oh my God, I buy imported items, I feel SO dirty.

I and all my countrymen should STOP this evil practice of buying
imports in order to cleanse the stain from our souls.


Mike Patterson
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