Ponce
10th December 2010, 11:25 AM
Long articles with polls, it tells me HOW FREAKING STUPID the American people are where they are not even aware of the real conditions of this country or what the future will be like.......to me.....China is #1, Japan is #2 and any other country without the dollar is #3 which leave us as #4..... I not looking at what we are but rather at what they will be that we wont be in the near future.
First post of the day.............good morning to one and all.
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We're No. 2by Ronald Brownstein
In the global race for jobs and economic prosperity, the United States is No. 2. And it is likely to remain there for some time. That's the glum conclusion of most Americans surveyed in the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll. Henry Luce famously labeled the 20th century the "American Century." This survey suggests that most Americans now doubt that this new century will bear that name.
More from TheAtlantic.com:
• Do Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Create Jobs?
• Something Republicans and Democrats Agree On: Their Hatred of the Fed
• Is There a Future for 'Made in America'?
In the poll, only one in five Americans said that the U.S. economy is the world's strongest--nearly half picked China instead. Looking forward, Americans are somewhat more optimistic about regaining primacy, but still only about one in three expect the U.S. economy to be the world's strongest in 20 years. Nearly three-fifths of those surveyed said that increasing competition from lower-paid workers around the world will keep living standards for average Americans from growing as fast as they did in the past. Ruben Owen, a retired Boeing engineer in Seattle who responded to the survey, spoke for many when he said, "We're still in a reasonably good place … but it's going to get harder because other places are growing stronger."
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111549/were-no-2
First post of the day.............good morning to one and all.
================================================== =================
We're No. 2by Ronald Brownstein
In the global race for jobs and economic prosperity, the United States is No. 2. And it is likely to remain there for some time. That's the glum conclusion of most Americans surveyed in the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll. Henry Luce famously labeled the 20th century the "American Century." This survey suggests that most Americans now doubt that this new century will bear that name.
More from TheAtlantic.com:
• Do Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Create Jobs?
• Something Republicans and Democrats Agree On: Their Hatred of the Fed
• Is There a Future for 'Made in America'?
In the poll, only one in five Americans said that the U.S. economy is the world's strongest--nearly half picked China instead. Looking forward, Americans are somewhat more optimistic about regaining primacy, but still only about one in three expect the U.S. economy to be the world's strongest in 20 years. Nearly three-fifths of those surveyed said that increasing competition from lower-paid workers around the world will keep living standards for average Americans from growing as fast as they did in the past. Ruben Owen, a retired Boeing engineer in Seattle who responded to the survey, spoke for many when he said, "We're still in a reasonably good place … but it's going to get harder because other places are growing stronger."
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111549/were-no-2