Quoting from[germex]:

Your assessment of the present situation is quite correct, but many people believe that the US has passed the point of no return. Especially the Georgian war has proved that. They lost, and NATO doesn't back up George Bush's plans (idioticies) anymore.

Cheney says that Georgia WILL become part of NATO, and that is clearly just a wish, but nothing he can force to happen. They are both desperate. And as there are too many countries in the world that have an ax to gring with this country, while it becomes clearer everyday that NATO has practically abandoned the US, the future looks extremely grim.

Hi Germex,

Georgia is more proof that Bush/Cheney are idiots. Bush and Cheney have the lowest approval rating in US history. 50% of Americans knew they would be horrible when they took office, now another 25% (even manyRepublicans) can't stand him.They just had the Republican Convention and they didn't even want Bush to appear. When was the last time you saw a sitting US president not appear in person at their own parties convention? Bush and Cheney are gone in January (Is it January yet?). I agree with you that Bush/Cheney did a lot of damage around the world to US relations. It is a shame that the US and the worldhad to endure this ****'s 8 years of power.Your last Mexican President Fox was recently interviewed on a TV show here and told a personal funny story how "Bush can't even ride a horse" (yet he portrays himself always hanging out at his ranch in Texas).

Recently, when Barack Obama spoke in Berlin Germany over 200,000 people where listening, this shows Germany can't wait until Bush is gone. On the last night of the Democratic Convention they had to move to Invesco Field in Denver. Obama's acceptance speech drew 85,000 people (McCain barely filled a 10,000 seat arena for his). I speak to people in foreign countries on a regular basis. I ask each of them in recent months who they are for in the upcoming election. Based on my Informal survey, I have not had a single person (non-American) who has said they hope McCain wins. They all want Obama to win. The world liked Bill Clinton just fine. I saw a lot of "Viva Bush" bumper stickers back in 2000 and 2004. Amazing after Bush/Cheney alienated Mexican Americans with their ridiculous immigration ideas, it's 60 days til election and I haven't seen a single "Viva McCain" bumper sticker. I believe they have lost the Mexican-American vote too.

The US ecomony is the world's largest it will come back, Most other ecomonies are greatly effected when the US economy slips. The "ripple effect" of the US problems have already been seen in negative growth numbers coming out of the EU and UK. I have friends in many foreign countries, several of them will say "when the US sneezes we catch a cold". The US has gone through a recession before. Fixing a $10 trillion dollar deficit will take time. The next president (Barack Obama) inherits a mess.

Regards, Michael

Quoting from [partha]:

Quoting from [mac-inc]:

Quoting from [partha]:

We are in the export business of musical instrument accessories for violins,violas,cellos,bass & guitar parts from India.

In our line of business,US is a big market for us.But the business from the US specially during the months from April till date has not been what we do every year.What has happened to the US?

Could anyone shed some light on this?

Hi Partha,

The US has never been more down (not in my 51 years).

End of Clinton administration, we were riding high.

1. Largest surplus in US Gov't History ($5 trillion surplus)

2. Gas cost $1 gallon

3. Strong Economy

4. Strong Job Growth (10 million new jobs created)

5. Peace

After 8 Bush years:

1. Largest deficit in US Gov't History ($10 trillion deficit and climbing)

2. Gas cost $4-$5 gallon, Food prices and all others rising 20-30%, Wages in the US are going down.

3. Recession

4. Lost 10 million jobs (outsourcing)

5. Country at War (spending $2-$3 billion per day more than we have), borrowing from China, Saudi Arabia and UAE to continue this insanity. Iraq didn't attack the US, the 9/11 report clearly stated that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush lied about their "WMD".

Bush is the worst president in US history (I can't even think of a close second)

People are hurting like I haven't seen in my lifetime: Record foreclosures, Record bankrupty, Record Homeless, Record Business closings, Record Bank Failures, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac Bankrupt (the larger US house lenders), Record people without healthcare, Record Collapse of housing market (for each person in foreclosure there are 50 more watching their homes value drop like a brick), This has caused a lot of depression in people approaching retirement age who were counting on their home equity as the main part of their retirement.

Many non-necessary businesses are hurting, even Starbucks is closing 600 stores in the US.

Your would-be music business dollars are going to US people's gas tanks, increased grocery bills, increased health care, etc. people aren't buying anything they can do without.

It will get better in 2009, Bush almost is gone..........For your business sake hope that Barack Obama wins the vote.

 Dear Mac,

Thanks so much for your's answer.Got to know a lot about the real state of US economy as it is now.So can we expect somekind of remedies if the Democrats somes to power in the US?

 Hello Partha,

Yes, expect changes. In 2006 Americans voted Democrats control of Congress and Senate. Voting Republicans out in a landslide. In 2006, the US ecomony wasn't as bad as now. More Republicans will be voted out of office in less than 60 days.

The problem was that our government system has 3 branches: President, Senate and Congress. In one branch the 51% Democrat majority hasn't meant a thing because it takes 60% vote to make law. So 2/3 off our government has still been under Republican control Bush). A Democratic President shifts that to 2/3 Democrate control. Barack Obama is going to win. There is a pretty good chance that the Democrats will control all. That's when real change happens. Many laws will change. Barack Obama's plans will put more money in 97% of Americans pockets to spend. I will get better.

Later, Michael

Quoting from [mac-inc]:

Obama at least isn't as stupid as Bush (IQ 91), and he is not a known traitor and criminal like McCaine (McCanine?) either.  But you know that a President is only as good as he is allowed to be. Negotiating "the fence around his playground" is one thing the new president has to do. But as intelligent as he might be, he can't do miracles either.

Just have a look at who controls the US telephone system, all information systems of the Pentagon, who "guards" the nuclear weapons (a year ago one nuclear bomb "disappeared" and nobody knows where it is, while the media keeps silence), plus other similar issues, and you'll know who's feet the president has to kiss.

Your country starts about 3km (roughly 2 miles) from my house, so obviously I would love to do business with you, but quite frankly, I still see heavy clouds, thunder and lightning in your future. Wouldn't like to get caught in that mess that's brewing up! Once all oil is quoted and paid in any other currency than the US dollar (and that's about to start), there is no way to get out of those 10 trillion of debt! Guess what will happen then! "Mayhem" is a benign expression!

Quoting from [germex]:

Quoting from [mac-inc]:

Obama at least isn't as stupid as Bush (IQ 91), and he is not a known traitor and criminal like McCaine (McCanine?) either.  But you know that a President is only as good as he is allowed to be. Negotiating "the fence around his playground" is one thing the new president has to do. But as intelligent as he might be, he can't do miracles either.

Just have a look at who controls the US telephone system, all information systems of the Pentagon, who "guards" the nuclear weapons (a year ago one nuclear bomb "disappeared" and nobody knows where it is, while the media keeps silence), plus other similar issues, and you'll know who's feet the president has to kiss.

Your country starts about 3km (roughly 2 miles) from my house, so obviously I would love to do business with you, but quite frankly, I still see heavy clouds, thunder and lightning in your future. Wouldn't like to get caught in that mess that's brewing up! Once all oil is quoted and paid in any other currency than the US dollar (and that's about to start), there is no way to get out of those 10 trillion of debt! Guess what will happen then! "Mayhem" is a benign expression!

Good points!

Quoting from [Mike W Liu]:

Quoting from [germex]:

Quoting from [partha]:

We are in the export business of musical instrument accessories for violins,violas,cellos,bass & guitar parts from India.

In our line of business,US is a big market for us.But the business from the US specially during the months from April till date has not been what we do every year.What has happened to the US?

Could anyone shed some light on this?

The US market is not completely down, but experiencing a lot of problems. People have reacted to that in a pretty reasonable way, and among their efforts to solve the problem is "buy American"...

Thanks for your answer. we face the same problem.

I suppose all chinese enterprise face this problem,the Amercian market is gloomy

Quoting from [partha]:

Quoting from [mac-inc]:

Quoting from [partha]:

We are in the export business of musical instrument accessories for violins,violas,cellos,bass & guitar parts from India.

In our line of business,US is a big market for us.But the business from the US specially during the months from April till date has not been what we do every year.What has happened to the US?

Could anyone shed some light on this?

Hi Partha,

The US has never been more down (not in my 51 years).

End of Clinton administration, we were riding high.

1. Largest surplus in US Gov't History ($5 trillion surplus)

2. Gas cost $1 gallon

3. Strong Economy

4. Strong Job Growth (10 million new jobs created)

5. Peace

After 8 Bush years:

1. Largest deficit in US Gov't History ($10 trillion deficit and climbing)

2. Gas cost $4-$5 gallon, Food prices and all others rising 20-30%, Wages in the US are going down.

3. Recession

4. Lost 10 million jobs (outsourcing)

5. Country at War (spending $2-$3 billion per day more than we have), borrowing from China, Saudi Arabia and UAE to continue this insanity. Iraq didn't attack the US, the 9/11 report clearly stated that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush lied about their "WMD".

Bush is the worst president in US history (I can't even think of a close second)

People are hurting like I haven't seen in my lifetime: Record foreclosures, Record bankrupty, Record Homeless, Record Business closings, Record Bank Failures, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac Bankrupt (the larger US house lenders), Record people without healthcare, Record Collapse of housing market (for each person in foreclosure there are 50 more watching their homes value drop like a brick), This has caused a lot of depression in people approaching retirement age who were counting on their home equity as the main part of their retirement.

Many non-necessary businesses are hurting, even Starbucks is closing 600 stores in the US.

Your would-be music business dollars are going to US people's gas tanks, increased grocery bills, increased health care, etc. people aren't buying anything they can do without.

It will get better in 2009, Bush almost is gone..........For your business sake hope that Barack Obama wins the vote.

 Dear Mac,

Thanks so much for your's answer.Got to know a lot about the real state of US economy as it is now.So can we expect somekind of remedies if the Democrats somes to power in the US?

 

We experience same as the host.but is not so much difference.

Hope US economy will go up again as US is our main market for outdoor fire pit

GOOD LUCK

Quoting from [partha]:

We are in the export business of musical instrument accessories for violins,violas,cellos,bass & guitar parts from India.

In our line of business,US is a big market for us.But the business from the US specially during the months from April till date has not been what we do every year.What has happened to the US?

Could anyone shed some light on this?

Quoting from [partha]:

We are in the export business of musical instrument accessories for violins,violas,cellos,bass & guitar parts from India.

In our line of business,US is a big market for us.But the business from the US specially during the months from April till date has not been what we do every year.What has happened to the US?

Could anyone shed some light on this?

Most of the average people have not  been spending money for over 2 years. The high price of Gas caused everything to go up in price. So they quit buying causing stores to close ,order cut back. now more and more people are out of work, no money. and it is getting worse by the day. We have had to close our business, we are now relocating to property that i own. not as much traffic but a lot less to operate, Good Luck, Kenny

Quoting from [kenny1heaton]:

Quoting from [partha]:

We are in the export business of musical instrument accessories for violins,violas,cellos,bass & guitar parts from India.

In our line of business,US is a big market for us.But the business from the US specially during the months from April till date has not been what we do every year.What has happened to the US?

Could anyone shed some light on this?

Most of the average people have not  been spending money for over 2 years. The high price of Gas caused everything to go up in price. So they quit buying causing stores to close ,order cut back. now more and more people are out of work, no money. and it is getting worse by the day. We have had to close our business, we are now relocating to property that i own. not as much traffic but a lot less to operate, Good Luck, Kenny

Sir,can we expect a turn around now that the Democrats would be back into power?US fared resonably well during the Clinton period.Is'nt it?Would be eagarly looking forward to your's feedbacks.Regards.Partha Chowdhury.Kolkata,India.

Quoting from [partha]:

We are in the export business of musical instrument accessories for violins,violas,cellos,bass & guitar parts from India.

In our line of business,US is a big market for us.But the business from the US specially during the months from April till date has not been what we do every year.What has happened to the US?

Could anyone shed some light on this?