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...spending details gives Bush an opening to brand him an old-fashioned profligate liberal. "Governor Clinton and Congress know that you have caught on to their lingo," Bush said in his speech. "They know when they say 'spending,' you say 'uh, oh.' So now they have a new word: 'investment.' They want to 'invest' $220 billion more of your money -- but I want you to keep...
...current storyline about a clearly fraudulent "investment advisor" seems to be pretty good although Dilbert's alter ego, Dogbert, and his School of Common Sense for truly stupid people are nowhere to be found. What's funnier is that although Dilbert recognizes that to give his money to this guy is the equivalent of "flinging" his hard earned cash "out the window," he will probably invest with this guy anyway, just as he always asks out women who will inevitably humiliate him in some excruciatingly painful fashion...
Foreign investors' dollars sustained an otherwise declining capital pool during the 1980s. The U.S. can--and has--used those dollars to invest in its own companies, increasing its productivity and, ultimately, its wages. All of this is basic Ec 10. So why is Clinton targeting foreign investment...
Many economic observers and politicians fuel these beliefs by charging that foreigners invest in American companies--particularly high-tech, high-profit companies--and then ship either the jobs or the technology overseas, depending on how devious they are. Most of the jobs apparently come from bread-and-butter industries like auto-building. Most of the technology apparently comes from the electronics or weapons industry...
...course, Americans should not use foreign dollars as am investment crutch that allows them to consume more and invest less. This is precisely what happened during the Reagan years, and Clinton wants to fix it. But the answer cannot be to punish foreign investors. Instead, we should concentrate on another element of the Clinton plan: providing tax credits for Americans to invest in U.S. companies...