After the economy is fixed...

After we finally fix our economy i would like to see some programs put in place to prevent the ability of our economy to come down in a recession this fast, and to take this long to get back out of it. We need to establish something like Great Britain and a few other countries have called a social safety net, its an establishment of multiple programs to help a country get quickly back on its feet after the economy has fallen. They also help decrease the poverty levels and provide a sense of security for countries.

Matthew. "A Slow Recovery." Conference Board Review 47.1 (2010): 34-9. Business Full Text. Web. 7 Mar. 2011.
  

fixing the economy

Some people think that restoring the economy requires 1) halting the flood of foreclosures coming our way and 2) stopping high cost lending that strips families of wealth.

Other people think that we need to grow the middle class because when the middle class is vibrant and booming, so is our economy

and for a third opinon, these people think that we can help our economy buy cutting expenses, and government spending, they even made a video for it! :)


1.  responsible lending
2. economy solutions

maybe i should have started with this...

I should have started with the reason our economy is bad in the first place. Our economy is in this state of emergency because we have been printing too much money, the real estate failure and foreclosures and lastly the government keeps bailing out people who dont need to be bailed out. Remember this....

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

that my friends is a video talking about how much that bank bailout actually cost last year.

when are we ever going to learn? -__-

sunburnt:(

I spent all day at the pool today and i am so worn out from the sun that im going to have to wait till tomorrow to tell yall more about free trade, or some other solutions for our economy.

the cons of free trade....

ive looked and looked and can only find a few
  one is that we will have more job losses than gains  and the next one is that many trade agreements are bad for the U.S. and another one is that buying foreign products does not support American jobs.


Welll i have one thing to say to that! if we had requirements on the free trade agreements they wouldnt be bad for the U.S. and secondly we JUST signed  a free trade agreement that promises MORE jobs. &&&&&&  the foreigners will be buying American products and so will we. so BOOYAH! those dont exactly sound like problems anymore.


cons #1
cons #2

OH ! remember those requirements i was talking about...

The Korea-U.S. trade agreement has em! and they even say it looks like something that's going to be a model for all the free trade agreements to come!



read me!

This article lists the regulations for each country and, a few of the ones that i said before are there as well!

GO FREE TRADE!

1. Free trade represents individual sovereignty.

•   every person should have the right to freely trade as they wish.

2. It would restrain the power of the state.

• It gives more power to the people and it would take some power away from the government   and how they control things.

3.Free trade also encourages other basic human rights like freedom of speech and religion.

• by people being able to use free trade it will give them the power and the motivation to use their other rights given to them more often.

4. it helps the poor

• it helps the poor because with the market more widely spread it takes some of the power away from the elites disabling them from being able to pillage over the poor.
• it also gives greater opportunity for the poor to be able to create wealth.

5. It encourages the people to cultivate moral values and become in tune with other cultures

• with free trade we will be able to trade with countries that we may have never traded with before, and learn about their cultures in the process
• also, it would create moral values because with free trade all of the business would be between the business men and if the trades aren't fair, its not going to happen and they can find someone else

6. it creates comparative advantage

• countries will be able to specialize in what they are best at

• countries being able to specialize in what they are good at is a good thing  because now-a-days countries try to make everything so that they can have more home manufactured stuff and so that it can be cheaper, but since we are not specializing in it, making the stuff were not necessarily in the best shape to make is just costing more money 

    

seven moral arguments for free trade
  Griswold, Daniel. "Seven Moral Arguments for Free Trade." The Cato Institute. May 1, 2002. 13 Apr 2011 <http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10876>