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Submitted by D. Lucian, Feb 21, 2008 19:42

It is very naive to imagine that USA can isolate itself from NAFTA or any other trade agreements that provide cheap products for our consumer society. A lot of the goods that we are using, e.g., motorcars, airplanes, computers, etc. (to name only a few important ones) have been invented and/or developed here, but are also produced in other countries, and not only north or south of our borders, but overseas, usually for lower (or much lower) wages than ours. If everything that we consumed was maid in our country, we would need very large, if not huge incomes to be able to afford our expected living standards. It seems that the basis for our status in the world has been to keep creating new products to sell on all markets, then mass-produce them wherever it is more efficient for a convenient price for consumers everywhere. Our present economic situation on the international stage may be caused by the fact that after the invention and marketing of the computers, all-sort of electronic gadgets incorporated in machines, and the Internet, USA has not introduced enough fresh merchandises or services, that appeal to a lot of people, to keep our exports' demand in the world ahead of the imports of our inventions manufactured outside our borders. Neither Hillary Clinton, nor Barack Obama seem qualified enough or to have enough experience to be President of the USA and deal with the very fragile international economic situation because they do not appear to see much further then "their noses." Making protectionist mistakes on the world stage is going to affect negatively our economy for very many generations to come.

D. Lucian Iliesiu

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