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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ggersh who wrote (20245)	5/8/2009 6:27:45 AM
From: LTK007	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71402

i agree with you about later 32 to 37 and the grip of the depression was re-exerting it itself on the stockmarket in 37. Due to the N.Am and S.Am and being separated from europe and asia and africa by vast oceans, WWII no only pulled U.S.out depression, but caused a huge ramp up in ar manufacturing and being producers for the world. It was an awful war, and are loss of 400,000 military in 4 years was a big hurt, i remember my mother poinredt out stars on sloth hanging from a houses and telling me that means they have lost a child to the war. i even have a vivid memory of black out(we were East Coast) and their was fear still German air-carriers would create an attack on U.S.. But the closest, the war got to us, you could see freighters getting hit off the coast of New Jersey by German subs. But the death toll for rest of the world i have seen pegged at between 80 to 100million, military and civilians. Global Infrastructure was decimated, are infrastructure during the whole time was just expanding. And then Eisenhower commenced the massive interstate highway system(only people my age no what old Rte.1 meant to the East Coast, and what is was like to travel it---it was another world then:) But bottomline to this digression, WWII not only pulled us out of the depression, it left us the producer center of the world.We were a massive world power by the end of WWII. Matters are extremely different now.And so shall our future be. We degenerated into a country of making money by moving money around, feeding olff of creating, for greed purposes, the greatest gluttonius consumer people easily in world history via easy loans and easy credit. We became bigger by creating more and more fluff and producing less and less stuff, and , all for the good of cooperate profit, who were moving employment to foreign lands. Now the FLUFF machine collapsed and most all the taxpayer money is going to RECREATING the fluff society that got of here in the first place. Plus, those my age i am sure have great nostalgia for when america was vast array of small businesses. Even chains like Atlantic and Pacific and Kresge's had a homey quality. Town every main drag in the U.S. looks the same. UGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! i could find thousands of towns of pictures with pictures of their main drags nationwide and they look exactly like the same as a main drag of Ellsworth, Maine. Glad Blue Hill Maine ,close to where i am, when confronted with Hannaford opening up a store, did not do so until from the outside could not know it was a Hannaford store, was given it on individualized design and named The Trade Winds and only with one tiny label stuck to a window, saying "This is a Hannaford store" Walmarts have , i bet, closed the stores at least 200,000 local stores(that just a WILD GUESS). Absolute Hell for me would be a Walmart employee singing the Walmart PEP song to start the day. But hey if get too bored i could watch American Idol--LOL. How can you have free thinking people in an HOMOGENIZED world. i am presently reading the life of Alfred Russel Wallace, i will let others read the life Lee Iaccoca or a Donald Trump. Cripes when i realized Chainsaw Dunlop was viewed as Great Man, i realized this contry had already become hell.