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Originally Posted by gideongallery
and buying from another country when you have trade with and are therefore selling stuff to has a proportionately neutral effect (in the case of the US which has an over all trade surplus a positive effect).
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The U.S. has a trade surplus? So when we buy goods made in other countries it's proportionately neutral? (because they buy as much or more of our stuff as we buy of theirs?)
What the fuck are you smoking? Our trade deficit for Nov 2008 (the most recent month for which data is available) was over
$40 billion.
http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html
40 billion deficit, for one month, and that's a typical month, and you think the U.S. has a trade surplus?
I didn't even bother reading the rest of what you wrote because this is so factually inaccurate and flat out stupid that if you believe it's true then nothing else you wrote is worth reading.