U.S. tourism may be casualty of war on terror

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