On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the us economy by spending > your stimulus check wisely: > If you spend that money at Walmart, all the money will go to China.
No, only the money used to pay for the items that are imported from China goes to China. The rest goes to pay the employees who work at Walmart, to the bank that holds the mortgage on Walmart's buildings, to the utility companies, the truckers who deliver the merchandise, et al. In other words, into the economy. > If you spend it on gasoline, it will go to the Arabs. We import a lot more oil from Canada than we do from the Arabs, so some of it will go to the Canadians. If you shop for gas carefully, you can purchase from companies that use domestic oil. Also the retailers get a share, the truckers get a share...and that money will go ...wait from it....back into the economy. > If you purchase a computer, it will go to India. Nope. Even purchases of electronics made offshore put money back into the economy in form of the salaries of the companies who make the computers, the shipping companies that deliver the offshore goods, the port workers. It's not like the entire price of the purchase is being forwarded to India. > If you purchase fruit & vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras, & > Guatemala (unless you buy organic) Most fruits and vegetables consumed in the US are grown, harvested and distributed in the US. > If you buy a car, it will go to Japan. Only if you buy a car that was made in Japan, and even then..dealers are local businesses, car haulers gets their share..etc.etc. > If you purchase worthless crap it will go to Taiwan. Anything you buy leaves some portion of the purchase price in the economy. > and none, yes none of it will help the American economy. You couldn't be more wrong. PS: Yes, I know it was meant somewhat as humor, but it's not the kind of disinformation this economy needs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287302 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
