Amereica no longer owns itself. Scary Statistics

[Armstead]

A friend sent me this

US Government statistics indicate the following percentages of foreign ownership of American industry:


· Sound recording industries - 97%
· Commodity contracts dealing and brokerage - 79%
· Motion picture and sound recording industries - 75%
· Metal ore mining - 65%
· Motion picture and video industries - 64%
· Wineries and distilleries - 64%
· Database, directory, and other publishers - 63%
· Book publishers - 63%
· Cement, concrete, lime, and gypsum product - 62%
· Engine, turbine and power transmission equipment - 57%
U.S. shipping has evolved in recent years to include more containers
with box store consumer goods lifting profit margins to 30 percent from
the single digits.
These smartly managed foreign operators now manage about 80 percent
of port terminals in the United States.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_thom_har_060227_thom_hartmann_3a_when_.htm

OpEdNews.com
February 27, 2006
When Americans No Longer Own America
Thom Hartmann:


The Dubai Ports World deal is waking Americans up to a painful reality: So-called "conservatives" and "flat world" globalists have bankrupted our nation for their own bag of silver, and in the process are selling off America.


Through a combination of the "Fast Track" authority pushed for by Reagan and GHW Bush, sweetheart trade deals involving "most favored nation status" for dictatorships like China, and Clinton pushing us into NAFTA and the WTO (via GATT), we've abandoned the principles of tariff-based trade that built American industry and kept us strong for over 200 years....

ETC.

[Armstead]

1. kick

[imaginary girl]

2. I'll add a kick to that.

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. Dupe

Sorry

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x549154

[Armstead]

4. Oooops -- But it's important enough to merit two threads at least

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. Yep

I'm going to copy that article and send it to all my braindead friends.

[Wilms]

5. K&R n/t

[zippy890]

6. wow, what DO we own still?

food, I guess.

:dem:
kick

[htuttle]

8. All your base belong to someone else

[Ksec]

9. So Wall Street and the corporations are at fault

Wall Street encourages this outsourcing of everything because it makes a few bucks for stockholders. The Repubs encourage selling America because theyre paid off with millions in corporate money.

It would be nice if we could make these sons a bitches pay for the crimes theyve committed against all Americans.