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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:27:44 GMT, "spamfree"
wrote: More than possible. I just finished watching a regular TV show, World Business. I think it is based in the UK. One of their stories featured that problem, that top American brand names are suffering reduced sales in the last two years. A marketing / public opinion firm queried the public and it was confirmed that people are buying fewer American branded products because of American foreign policy. American exports are up the past 2 years. Big deal. Is that making much of a dent in the trade deficit? The trade deficit is 600 billion. The dollar is weak so foreign countries can buy more for the same amount of money in their local currency. OF COURSE exports are up, duh! Also you compared apples and oranges. I wrote that the top American brands were suffering, not all exports. Top American brands include Coke and the like. The only one of the top ten American brands that increased business was McDumps. So your story is false. It's not my story, genius. http://www.fbcmedia.com/en/prgms.asp I have traveled to both Canada and the UK recently. On both trips people were very friendly to me and talked more about the BS propaganda they hear on TV as being just that...BS. Oh yes, your two trips are *so* statistically significant. Casey |
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john wrote:
Big deal. Is that making much of a dent in the trade deficit? The trade deficit is 600 billion. Big Deal. Whats your point? The deficit isn't what the thread topic was dealing with. Besides, almost 1/2 last years increase in imports was from oil. One single product. Hardly representative of the market as a whole. |
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PTravel wrote:
Of course, I'm a citizen, but the process didn't seem any more onerous than the usual garbage I go through when I fly home from international travel. Umm ... there's a HUGE difference if you're a US citizen. Tell us again in 18 months when stricter requirements (as per 9/11 Commission recommendations enacted by Congress) are in place, like US citizens requiring a biometric passport for re-entry. That's right, the passport that you don't really need for Canada or many Caribbean countries will be mandatory for return. gld |
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PTRAVEL wrote:
Cars assembled in the USA now cost more because of those border security measures. What has this to do with the topic of this thread? Someone mentioned that land borders had not changed and that new measures didn't have any significant impact. |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:43:01 -0700, miles wrote:
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:43:01 -0700, miles wrote:
.... Remember when Bush ... He wasn't trying to be PC. Exactly. But he IS a "P" and should be "C". LOL!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + The News Guy(Mike) - Seinfeld Lists + (two mirrored sites) + http://membres.lycos.fr/tnguym + http://wave.prohosting.com/tnguym NOWTHISWORKS + All things Seinfeld; scripts, trivia, lists, +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:58:55 -0800, "PTravel"
wrote: "spamfree" wrote in message ink.net... http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/02/17....ap/index.html The article assumes that the dip in tourism is the result of security procedures. Isn't it also possible that the dip is the result of potential tourists' distaste for recent American actions on the world stage? Or a combination of the two. Add in the low value of the dollar, the give away prices of Europe-US flights (these days a return to Florida is little more than half the price of a return to Cuba, Jamaica, and similar destinations), and there is a definate problem trying to persuade people to visit the US. Oh and now there is also the call to boycott the US for its failure to join in with the Kyoto agreement. --==++AJC++==-- |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:37:16 -0700, miles wrote:
spamfree wrote: Top American brands include Coke and the like. The only one of the top ten American brands that increased business was McDumps. Top American brands are down in the USA as well. The world economy is down. The USA is one of the few thats growing. So whats your point? Oh yes, your two trips are *so* statistically significant. Wasn't intended to be. But these so called stories of everyone hating Americans is just that...a story that you and others buy into. Which is no surprise to anyone. Those stories of 'everyone hating Americans' were made up by the Bush regime and it's associated media organizations to bolster nationalistic feelings in the US. Europeans, Asians, and others always have, and always will make the distinction between the US government, US corporate symbols, and individual American travellers. --==++AJC++==-- |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:50:46 -0600, TCS
wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:38:45 -0500, nobody wrote: PTravel wrote: from both Mexico and Canada post-9/11. Of course, I'm a citizen, but the process didn't seem any more onerous than the usual garbage I go through when I fly home from international travel. Cars assembled in the USA now cost more because of those border security measures. The car makers had all reorganised themselves for JIT delivery funny. car prices haven't gone up except for purely japanese cars. The US car makers are in no position to raise their prices, that doesn't mean that the cars don't cost more to produce because of the security measures. Jim. |
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"PTravel" wrote in message ... "spamfree" wrote in message nk.net... http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/02/17....ap/index.html The article assumes that the dip in tourism is the result of security procedures. Isn't it also possible that the dip is the result of potential tourists' distaste for recent American actions on the world stage? Possibly but a lot is the perceived (and real) hassle that flying in to the USA involves. Given the favourable exchange rate european tourists ought to flocking to the USA in droves but the prospect of being fingerprinted and the warnings that people may be denied entry because of minor offences they may have committed many years ago undoubtedly put people off. The latter is a real worry for a lot of people. A very respectable friend of mine cancelled a planned trip to Florida because he was convicted of possessing pot at University 30 years ago. The policy of not allowing such convictions to lapse means he's technically not permitted to travel under the visa waiver programme. This is bad enough but to apply for a visa and ineligibilty waiver he has to provide exact details of the case including the court records. This turned out to be a major hassle and he gave up. Instead he's going to Australia where he can apply for a visa over the internet and get confirmation of his eligibility in minutes Keith ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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