It says in the newspaper today that foreign investors are buying aggressively, taking advantage of American duress and weak dollar to snap up what many see as bargains. Last year, foreign investors poured a record $414 billion into securing stakes in American companies. factories and other properties though private deals and purchases of publicly traded stock, according to Thomson Financial, a reseach firm. That was up 90 percent from the previous year and more than double the average for the past decade[that is a big jump and a bad sign].
During the first two weeks of this year, foreign businesses agreed to invest another $22.6 billion for stakes in American companies, more than half the value of all announced deals. If a recession now unfolds and the dollar drops further , the pace could accelerate, economics say.
Well history seem to be repeating, Manhattan was bought from the Indians for $26 dollars worth of beads which seem like a bunch of money to them. The people who are buying away at America as like all the convenient stores and restaurants and whatever other kind of money-making businesses then they just have to wait for the check to come in the mail every months from oil revenues, so money isn't really a problem to them as like to the native American now who is so strapped financially due to how weak our dollar has became. Hell it take almost 4 of our dollars now to buy one gallon of gas and about 10 of our dollars just to get to the other side of town and back.
Just like the Indians then we native Americans now are losing the country to the highest bidders for it. We all whose family has been in America for many generations are really the Indians of today, we have been interbred so much that we no longer look like the Indians of the old days. When the Europeans first started coming over then it was all men who hop the ships and came over here to settle, women rarely came because the ship voyage was to perilous, rough and dangerous. Once the Europeans got over here then they would give the Indian men a bottle of whiskey and make him act crazy and then shoot him claiming self-defense and then take his wife and make family with them. Nearly all of us who been in America for many generations have Indian grandmas all up and down our family trees. But again we are losing the country to foreigners. We are trying to stop illegal immigration but are doing nothing but sucking up to all the foreigners who are buying America instead of just trying to settle here.
Oh well what goes around come around and here it is all coming around again.

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Why wouldn't other countries take advantage of the weak American dollar. America took advantage of its strong dollar for the better part of a century, investing massively elsewhere. So whats so wrong about others countries doing the same to you, this is what free trade is about. What did you expect when you signed free trade agreements, that you should only be allowed to benefit from it, and no one else?

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Okay ever since the days of old, man has search for wealth untold, always digging for silver and for gold, leaving empty holes.

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Well, yes - of course!

Why do you think we sign them in the first place?

And I mean, you can see how much good it's doing us, right?

Foreigners buying US property is not a problem. If someone thinks it is, maybe they can explain why.

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http://politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=27847

this is related to the ongoing free trade thread as well.
i have no objection to foreign interests being able to purchase US property, but there should be reciprocity ... just as in the trade agreement
try buying real property in mexico, or in japan. can't happen. so, then why should japanese and mexican interests be able to acquire American real estate?
comity should be a standard required in all of our trade agreements and dealings internationally

hopefully, you can see i am not opposed to free trade. but if commercial undertakings are fair for the others to do but someone from the US cannot do the same, is that really "free" trade?

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We're not losing the USA to foreigners..the same thing was pulled with the Japs in the 80's.

They are investing at a time when its financially wise for them to do so. They are not looking though destroy the economy or take over the USA. They are looking to make money and thats about it.


The Dollar will stabilize..and likely go back up in time. They will either cash in on their investments or actually lose out on them.


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The problem with border security and the PC acceptance of hyphenated-americanism is a serious threat and can many years from now cause this nation to fracture or all sorts of negative things.
Willfully accepting the Balkanizaiton of America will lead to an America like the Balkans.

The problem isn't necessarily foreigners buying American products, companies, etc. The problem is the massvie, massive trade deficit that's increased every year. That means the Chinese can laugh in the face of the American government when the U.S. tries to get fair trade and tries to stop China from devaluing their currency. They have no teeth because they simply have to have the market.

I thought we had that already.

That's why it's called the United States of America.

Yes?