Do you foresee the US cutting its ties with overseas suppliers?
Isn't it about time that the US live off of its own land? We have the capabilities to become a self sufficient nation, but we aren't utilizing it.
Noone can be self-sufficient any more in this globalized economy. The economies of different countries are entangled, they do not function independently. Unless the entire financial model is rethinked and modified, along with with all paradigms at place. It may as well be a better thing to do, since financial crises spread in the world even to countries that have nothing to do with it. One large economy does wrong and the negative effects spread around the world, instead of reflecting only to the economy responsible for it. I don't like that either
eventually, though definitely not soon enough. Each nation should be self-sustaining. No one country should have to rely on another for supplies they can get in their own land.
I agree with you both. My main concern is that the US is not only depending upon other countries for supplies (ie. oil, manufacturing) but it is currently in the process of expanding its business elsewhere. This bothers me. If we are to, at some point, become a self sustaining nation, then we shouldn't be promising countries like Brazil that we will be their number 1 customer. We have enough resources to become completely independent and give the current state of the world, if one collapses, we ALL will suffer.
George Washington's forgein policy was said to be, " no forgein policy"...............an idea whose time is past due.
Will it come to pass?...........Probably not in our liberal, "big brother to the world", mentality.
As a nation, we have ALWAYS been self sustaining. Even the small state of Arkansas has:
water
cattle
grains
tomatoes
diamonds
oil
dirt
sand
gravel
dairy
poultry
water
veggies
meats
sugar
wheat
wildlife
coal
gas
manufacturing
teaching hospitals
universities
telecommunication networks
refineries
and .....get this.........Wal-Mart..............they are lacking in penguins
by sam3m 12 years ago
Why do we have troops stationed overseas?why do we have troops stationed in germany, korea, japan, etc., in effect supplying our people for their defense?
by StrictlyQuotes 9 years ago
With overseas travel is it better to take travellers cheques or a credit card?Which have you found secure and convenient?
by canadawest99 13 years ago
You know I watch in sadness as our southern neighbors drift into oblivion. I watch more people vote for American idol than they do president. I watch people hopelessly addicted to the internet, facebook, reality shows, hollywood, sports, drugs, sex whatever all while the powers that be...
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |