The solution to current economic crisis is to give failing businesses money. This is not supported by any economic theory I know, though. The main mechanism of the economy is supply and demand, so if we want an actual solution we need to apply Science! and come up with a strategy based on sound theory. Now, you can increase revenue by increasing demand, but increasing demand means making better products which is a hard thing to achieve definitively. The other strategy to increase revenue is to reduce supply which is easier to achieve. For instance, we could hit farms in other countries with Agent Orange to destroy their crops and increase demand for ours. Also, we can destroy their production plants to increase demand for our products. Another strategy is to threaten to kill people if they don’t import our goods, which falls under the realm of increasing demand. Now, this may cause other countries to react harshly, but that is something outside of economic theory so it must be ignored if we want a solution based on Science! and logic.
Excellent ideas. For a long time I’d been a fan of exacting monetary Tribute from lesser countries, but hey, what does a trillion Zimbabwean bucks getcha anymore? Could I even get a Big Mac with that? Might as well burn their crops and piss down their wells and tell them we’ll stop as soon as they start buying our Chevrolets.
I’m personally surprised at your Aggressive solutions in this modern age of Obama and the Buggerin’ Bishop! Can’t we all just get along could be our mantra…but nooooooooooo! IMAO has come out and demanded that the military industrial complex aggressively and brutally take steps to assert United States imperialism against the rest of the world for economic gain. I like it…A LOT!
It would make more sense to hit our farmers with Agent Orange for 2 very real and good reasons:
-1- we could do away with subsidies and would not have to pay the foreign farmers
-2- Foreign meats / fruits / vegetables are better quality than what we grow here. ( from direct personal experience so tough luck no arguments allowed I know this is true ) ….. an entry with photo I wrote when in southern Brazil http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/brazilian-beef-from-the-edge-of-the-south-american-texas.htm
Frank is correct. We can impact national revenue (GDP) in addition to positively shaping our M1 & M2 money supply, by applying proper micro/macro economic theory. I personally like the potential for application of “Marginal Propensity to Deliver Vast Explosive Tonnage” on their pointy little heads, if they don’t start buying American dollars, products, and services (to include tribute, ransom, and electronic payments of all forms).
America is having a sale….and if you don’t come and buy then we’ll make you sorry. (This might be a good opportunity to unload all cars made by un-American manufacturers, e.g. GM and Chrysler, in exchange for some fast cash.) We’ll then use the money to defeat the Left, and punish (to whit…kill) anyone who has had a bad thought about America.
Thank You.
Yes, this will work.
And as long as the paper and ink
manufacturers will accept your trillion dollar bills,
you can keep printing greenbacks.
This planned economy stuff is FUN !!!
No wonder Stalin was always smiling in the paintings of him.
Capitalism has a Darwinian facet that scares the bejesus out of most folks. That is why, when credit collapses because of too many bad loans, our first instinct is to prevent the fall of those financial institutions most at risk. Letting them die would entail wiping out the life savings of too many people for popularily elected politicians to agree to.
Allowing failing businesses to die off, as nature intended, is simply not an option.
If those Somali pirates were in the Pacific, we’d all be barefoot by now. Give me two good surplus fleet submarines and, dammit, I’ll have the American public back to work in two weeks.
I’m shocked that you left out the job creating benefits of your plan. Some one will have to replace all the Agent Orange and undoubtedly a cruise missile or two. More jobs for more Americans.
What can go wrong?
Invade their contries, Kill their leaders, Convert them to Christianity, REPEAT. The more we bomb then, the more bombs we have to make, the more bibles we have to print, the less moozlams there are. EVERYBODY WINS! (a thank you to Ann Coulter for the first line prophesy)
if we want a soultion based on Science! and logic.
What? No dinosaurs? Comon’!
According to my calculations the government sending 1 billion doll-hairs to me would be a definite improvement in the economy.