Why doesn't the U.S. just have a going out of business sale?

[MSgt213]

We can't make anything. All of our manufacturing and textiles jobs are overseas. Call centers in India now handle all of our service calls. Every country on earth is sending their citizens here to take our remaining jobs and the Bush administration is whole heartily encouraging them to do just that. Our military is spent. Since our kids are busy learning about the evils of abortion and intelligence design most every other country's kids are a lot smarter then ours. China has our technology sector sewed up. Most of our lawmakers have already sold their soles to the devil or a lobbyist, I guess it mostly depends on who showed up first. Now we our selling our physical security to a foreign government and no one can do anything about it because a business deal is stronger or at least on the same level as a treaty and according to Bush we dare not break it. Our borders and critical infrastructure are both totally non-secure, but hey, on the latest Anderson Cooper they are talking about Scientology and how most Americans don't understand it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Just part it out, sell the states piecemeal to the highest bidder.

Hey, Canada, you want to buy Minnesota? We have a nice big shopping mall and a lot of lakes....

[MuseRider]

2. Actually

who would want us in this state of mind? Nobody needs that much trouble.

[TroubleMan]

3. The bush administration is a going out of business sale...a firehouse sale

He's selling off all the "gubment" jobs to his buddies (Halliburton, Bechtel), and his other buddies are raiding the U.S Treasury (tax cuts for the rich) and writing laws that make their profits more important than your rights (credit card company bill, drug "benefit' bill, ect).

This is a going out of business sale.

[MadMaddie]

4. What you have written is interesting...

yet simple to understand....This is how we need to present the * Cabal to the Wingnuts....

[Patsy Stone]

5. Anyone read Snowcrash?

Not that far away...

From the wiki:

"The story takes place in a semi-America of the future, where corporatization, franchising, and the economy in general have spun wildly out of control. Snow Crash depicts the absence of a central powerful state; in its place, corporations have taken over the traditional roles of government, including dispute resolution and national defense. The United States has lost most of its territory in the wake of an economic collapse; the residual remains of the federal government are weak and inefficient and are used by Stephenson for comic relief.

Much of the territory lost by the government has been carved up into a huge number of sovereign enclaves, each run by its own big business franchise (such as "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong" or the various residential burbclaves (suburb enclaves)). This arrangement bears a similarity to anarcho-capitalism, a theme Stephenson carries over to his next novel The Diamond Age. Hyperinflation has devalued the dollar to the extent that trillion dollar bills, Ed Meeses, are little regarded and the quadrillion dollar note, a Gipper, is the standard 'small' bill. For large transactions, people resort to alternative, non-hyperinflated currencies like yen or "Kongbucks" (the official currency of Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong).

The Metaverse, Stephenson's successor to the Internet, permeates ruling-class activities, and constitutes Stephenson's vision of how a virtual reality-based Internet might evolve in the near future. Although there are public-access Metaverse terminals in Reality, using them carries a social stigma among Metaverse denizens, in part because of the low visual quality of the avatars (the Metaverse representation of a user). In the Metaverse, status is a function of two things: access to restricted environments (such as the Black Sun, an exclusive Metaverse club) and technical acumen (often demonstrated by the sophistication of one's avatar)."

[NJCher]

11. I'd never heard of this...

Will this be the 1984 for this generation?

Creepy.




Cher

[sam sarrha]

6. after giving it all away, there isnt enough to left to sell

[MSgt213]

9. Can we get some thing for the long forgotten faces on Mount Rushmore?

[brokensymmetry]

7. Why not? Because...

the BFEE and friends wouldn't have as many opportunities to pick the corpse clean.

[Erika]

8. W wants to put up NW forests for sale and use our hydroelectric

energy to pay off the national debt.

He wants to gut this country completely.

[low_phreaq]

10. Onion to the rescue!

I think this Onion story was posted here a while ago, but it's worth a repost.

U.S. Holds Going-Out-Of-Business Sale
January 17, 2006

WASHINGTON, DC—In an address broadcast on late-night television Tuesday, President Bush announced that the federal government will liquidate its holdings in a going-out-of-business sale scheduled to begin Friday.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44455

[leesa]

12. We are.

[Joe Fields]

13. I can't wait to see which items are up for grabs at the

Smithsonian.

[ProSense]

14. America for Sale: The Cost of Republican Corruption

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2478021&mesg_id=2478021