# It's a cold day in hell

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**Created:** [May 30, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/its-a-cold-day-in-hell/202888 "2009-05-30T08:41:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/its-a-cold-day-in-hell/202888/62 "2009-06-04T08:40:42Z")

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> [@Why i love my new base](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-i-love-my-new-base/40438/2):
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> I didn’t.
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> Your point is still as ass backwards as it could possibly be though. The migration of industry out of the Unites States is KILLING us. We’re losing tons of jobs, we’re totally dependent on foreign nations/economies, we have no earning power. Wall Street fabricated it all, told us the country was as profitable as ever… but the gains were all on paper. It was all imaginary. All of the economic “prosperity” we’ve been experiencing over the last 10 years has been due to cheap, abundant, endless credit. Millions of jobs have been shipped overseas, and with them the wages that should still be here in America. Thats less money in the economy. More people on welfare/unemployment, which are both funded by the aforementioned credit which no longer now exists.
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> This is what pisses me off about Ron Paul. He’s totally about the free market. The free market is what got us to this point to begin with. You should all know by now how much I LOATHE big government, but this is one of those places where they better step in, or we’re all fucked.

ok i see where you’re coming from- looks like a misunderstanding

1- for the most part i agree  
2- i wasn’t giving my opinion i was stating a reality that our GDP is basically entirely dependent on our gov’t spending and our consuming since:

- we have no exports
- there is no corporate investments into infastruture bc of sweatshops (this is true in all countries except countries that have sweatshops- why invest here when it’s cheaper there theory?)
- cheap stuff drives consumer spending since we don’t have anything but service jobs… _congrats on your bachelors degree johnny, good news… applebees is hiring_

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