oldrooster said:
To the rest of the world, please take note, the US economy is yours as well. You will rise and fall as we do. Its just the way it is.
The US economy is indeed an important part of the world economy. But "our economy is your economy" is taking it a bit far. Sounds to me like your saying that whatever is good for the US economy is good for the rest of the world and whatever is bad for the US economy is bad for the rest of us. Actualy, that isn't true at all.
Take for example the devaluation of the dollar. A couple of years ago, the US dollar was worth about 100 Icelandic kronur (ISK). Now it is worth only 72 ISK. The value of the British pound has during the same time gone from about 136 ISK to about 132 ISK. So, it's not the ISK that has gone up but the dollar that has gone down. But what effect has this had?
When I go to the store and buy things that are imported from the US, they are cheaper than they were before. Those who are importing things from the US are making more money because they have to pay less ISK and don't lower their prices to the consumer as much as their price lowers. When I buy things on the Internet that are priced in US$, they cost me less than they did befor (in ISK).
When someone in the US imports something from Iceland (Icelandic fish for example) then it costs him more in US$ even though the price is ISK is the same. This means that it is more expensive for US consumers when it gets to the stores. When an American buys something over the Internet that is priced in something other than US$, then it is more expensive than it was before. These same principles apply also to other countries and currencies that are stronger than the dollar right now such as the British pound.
In this case, what is bad for the US is good for the rest of the world. So don't think that just because something bad happens in the US that it will be bad for the rest of the world also.
speakingthetruth777 said:
Just about the entire world depends upon Walmart in some way--from shopping to jobs...
The whole world depends on Walmart for shopping? That's just plain rediculous, even within the US. Do you realy think that if Walmart went under that Safeway, Sears, K-mart, Target and a host of others, both within and outside the US couldn't provide people with their needs? In fact, even the unemployment that would result from Walmart going under (which I admit would be considerable) would be only temporary. People would do their shopping in other stores and those stores would need more workers - workors with the exact skills and experience that former Walmart workers would have. As for the manufacturing jobs, the same applies. Do you think that if Walmart stopped making tires that someone else wouldnt just make more (Goodyear, Michellin, Bridgestone and others)?
And there is one more thing you need to remember. God is in controll of this world, not Gorge W. Bush and certainly not S. Robson Walton. If God wanted to judge the US by destroying it's economy (though I'm not saying He will) and at the same time bless other countries financially, then it would be no problem for Him.