So, you’re saying that it is cheaper to buy Chinese stuff after it gets shipped to the US and then shipped back to Asia, than just buying direct from China. The world is weird. This free global market that people keep talking about does not make a lot of sense.
Well, don’t wait forever, or Lady Min will be the one with the Gulf front property.
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One day, however, when the insanity finally dies down, should I live that long… I’ll visit. I’ll bring kitty treats. 😉 That’s definitely my kind of boring place to visit Bryan! 😀 One day…
]]>All we have is the sugar-white sand of beaches, and turquoise water of the Gulf of Mexico. Between trying to pollute that with oil drilling, and making it nearly impossible for tourists to enter the country, we were hurting even before the melt down in the mortgage industry.
If you make the trip, just be sure you are renting a place and not buying it. They might try to unload a condo on you, so read the fine print.
]]>well, stop by and say hi to all the cats in this part of florida. also, spend money. we need the touri$t$.
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]]>they’re all gamblers now. they much prefer the roller coaster ride to a slow, steady, boring chug chug chug i think i can little engine that could.
]]>No, his mother’s people were English, Dunham, but his administration, especially the Treasury is definitely Republican in nature.
The facts say that Democratic Presidents are better for the economy and the stock market, but that doesn’t stop the financial types from voting for the rhetoric rather than the facts.
If they would actually regulate the financial industry, and fine the management personally, as well as the companies, we might see an improvement, but no one in the administration has the guts to do that.
One good quarter based on a couple of the stimulus programs and the pundits are shouting that the recession is over. Well, their recession may be over, but the GOPression of the rest of the country isn’t, and isn’t likely to be any time soon. No Jobs = No Spending = No Recovery It really is a fairly simple concept, but the talking heads can’t grasp it because they still have jobs.
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