While the above pictorials may seem like a bit of excuse for laughter the harsh and growing nightmarish reality is that what they represent is far from that.Why?
You need no more of an answer to this question then pretty much 90% of everything around you,maybe even including the chair your sitting in right now and the computer screen your looking at.If you were to gather everything that you own that is movable and put it in a big pile on the floor in your living room or ground outside and start seperating what of it has a Made in USA vs MADE in CHINA or elsewear logo stamped on to it,you would be humblingly surprised as to just how many valuable suvaneirs you actually have.......even though chances are,you've never been to China.Odds are since you were kid if you are younger than 40 but definetly 30,throughout your life you have seen items around your parents,friends and relatives house that has this awkward MADE in CHINA stamp or logo on the side and thought nothing of it........now while we have this ponderance up let us skip ahead to another reality check and then come back to this in a bit.
The United States has for a while now,consumed nearly 40% of all the world's natural resources and gross product on an annual basis since the Baby Boom generation following the second world war.The clothes we wear,the cars we drive,the food we eat,the houses and communities we live in are second to none in the overall Earthly scheme of things and the quality and quantity of the products and items that we are able to aquire are unlike most anywhere else in the world and this includes other regions of so called westernized/modernized society.Most people dont realize or much less care when they walk into a Walmart for instance and see rows and rows of goods stacked isle after isle just where it is exactly all this stuff is coming from or how that company is able to gather and collect it day after day....Have you by any chance ever heard the term....."One man's loss is another man's gain?"......yep well time to connect the dots here.
The truth is the United states produces only 30% of its own goods and 20% of those fall under the category as non durable such as clothing.Infact did you know that nearly half the United States GDP isnt even the result product but real estate and healthcare?And that 10% of considered non durable goods are food?So then that leaves just 10% of the American Gross Domestic Product being a result of durable goods that we produced for ourselves such as automobiles,furniture and appliances.So now if you were following all of this from the very begginning of this paragragh you will immidiatley notice at this point that there is a huge 70% of gross product consumption that is missing from the picture.Hmm where does the other nearly 2/3rds of the goods that we buy and consume on a daily basis come from?Now you should be savvy enough if you were smart enough to get this far.......so just go ahead and take a wild geuss.Your only gonna need 1 if the obvious has been obvious.
Aside from the fact that foriegn banks(including those in China) have loned our economy billions of dollars over the years to the tune of 7 and soon to be 8 trillion(not even a real number I know)dollars to keep afloat its the reason behind this that is about to trip you out.The truth is with the U.S. having the world's largest economy we are biggest in demand for imported goods and resources including everything literally from crude oil to kids toys.But wait a minute......we've already well over spent to the tune of 7 trillion bucks in the hole plus we export a very small amount of products and services proportionatley to what we import and consume so how are we able to keep all the cargo ships pointed in our direction?In a simple explanation because it is our paper currency that runs the show.Thats right folks.......did you know that over 90% of global business trade,import and export,even in the nations of our so called enemies is done by way of U.S. dollar?So then it makes perfect sense,the world has to keep giving us the goods they produce to get paid in American dollars so they can purchase what they need for their own country.Thus our greatest export is our currency.Now if you notice....those nations that either choose not to or just arent connected to this system like those in Africa,parts of South America and throughout Eastern Europe arent doing very well economically or domestically are they?
But before you go thumbing your noses at them,remember that now all of a sudden the capitolist system that we have been living under for the past 50+ years is beginning to roar its ugly head back at us.Why?Remember what I told you about the U.S. hardly producing any exports or dommestic product?Well think about it,what does paper money represent?It represents the value of either the person being given it or the item being purchased with it,so this means that if we are not giving the world anything useful in exchange for what they are giving us then basically we are useless to them and their way of life........thus the value of the paper currency falls with the lowering value of what its representing.If you dont see the train wreck up ahead that we're approaching then I cant help you.What if the world decided to abandon the U.S. dollar for example of one of the many disaster scenario's surrounding this issue?This would mean that the world would no longer have to give us our own money back to give to them when we buy something from them(lol just think about that for a second).It also means that we would have to start giving literally something in order to get.Basically without the foriegn import sector our financial system from CDS to GSP would most certainly crumle faster than the twin towers fell to the ground 10 years ago in New York.You know the only reason why the world wont abandon us right now is because they cant......their banks are holding so many U.S. dollars for valuable goods that we "bought"from them that if they burned it all the could have a bonfire the size of Lake Michigan.And more importantly they would get nothing in return for it(considering the amount of dollars they have) and they could not do trade with other nations.So its basically a damned if you do damned if you dont scenario.
However what many Americans dont realize is that governments like China,who's economy just surpassed Japan's as the second largest on Earth only to the U.S.,understand this concept and thus are working countering it with their own plans of becoming the world's next super power.......and trust me they will be within the next half a century or so.Now this gets back to the entire issue of this thread....MADE in CHINA and the American way of life.Face it....as long as China produces 60% of our imports and we continue to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into foriegn economies like China's by either buying from overseas companies,shopping in overseas markets or buying goods from American based companies that outsource their production of goods overseas for cheap labor we are all OWNED by China.
You manswell stamp a damn sticker on the back of your head that says :Property of Hong Kong.
