Just to get a conversation going

[tony]

I see your point completely.. just a couple of things

As far as drilling for oil in Alaska, what happens when those decades are gone and we're back to looking to the other countries? There are billionaires in the middle east who have invested a LOT of money into the United States not to mention other countries..guess what happens if they pull that money out? Its the same thing as sending workers from mexico back..the economy would fall flat on its face because a good portion of americans would never do cheap labor.

I understand there are leeches out there and I'm not saying its right, but I think a step like that would do more harm than good. The cost of goods stay down because of outsourcing.. although I'm totally against it I believe the issue is with those people running the companies.. they're the ones lining their pockets and their investors pockets while the employees lose their jobs... in the process creating a dependency on the countries you speak of.

Its kind of like the irony I saw when people were going through this "boycott france" thing, this guy had american flags everywhere on his cadillac along with "dont buy anything from france" in big letters while riding on michelin tires.. he never had a clue.

[Jaimecbr900]

As far as drilling for oil in Alaska, what happens when those decades are gone and we're back to looking to the other countries?

The same thing when oil runs out in the Middle East, go find some more or something else to pour in your tank.

Besides, they speculate that there may be the largest oil fields there which may be far more than a few years worth. We don't KNOW because of all the tree huggers.

There are billionaires in the middle east who have invested a LOT of money into the United States not to mention other countries..guess what happens if they pull that money out? Its the same thing as sending workers from mexico back..the economy would fall flat on its face because a good portion of americans would never do cheap labor.

They won't pull their money out. They are making plenty of money off that money. They're not stupid. Besides, again, if we put the money back into our own economy instead of spending it abroad we can replace those millions those investors spend here. Again, they have no other economy that can give them the type of returns U.S. economy does.....therefore, they're not gonna be so quick to leave. Remember, money talks and bullshit walks. They may threaten to do something, but they won't.

I understand there are leeches out there and I'm not saying its right, but I think a step like that would do more harm than good. The cost of goods stay down because of outsourcing.. although I'm totally against it I believe the issue is with those people running the companies.. they're the ones lining their pockets and their investors pockets while the employees lose their jobs... in the process creating a dependency on the countries you speak of.

Leeches are leeches. Look at France and the rest of the yellow bellied countries. They aren't concerned with consequences. Why should we?