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<blockquote data-quote="Nathan Lanni" data-source="post: 174056" data-attributes="member: 14629">As the most affluent single nation in the world (at least the last time I looked), just about everyone else in the world are after US dollars. The Italians/German/UK/Japanese are after US dollars for sports cars, various parts of Asia have massive trade imbalances with the US, and yes, the Canadians along with the Italians, Greeks, UK and Europe in general are after our tourism dollars (no doubt I left somebody out). Seems American have plenty of disposal income and time to spend it. The US is a net importer of just about everything you can name except automobiles. But, other countries are not blessed with the massive resources available to us.In a world that is growing increasingly hostile to the US, we should keep our Western style democracy Canadian neighbor on good terms. Anyway, this discussion belongs in another forum but I want to respond to the criticism of Canadian neighbor. Enough said, let's leave at that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nathan Lanni, post: 174056, member: 14629"] As the most affluent single nation in the world (at least the last time I looked), just about everyone else in the world are after US dollars. The Italians/German/UK/Japanese are after US dollars for sports cars, various parts of Asia have [I]massive[/I] trade imbalances with the US, and yes, the Canadians along with the Italians, Greeks, UK and Europe in general are after our tourism dollars (no doubt I left somebody out). Seems American have plenty of disposal income and time to spend it. The US is a net importer of just about everything you can name except automobiles. But, other countries are not blessed with the massive resources available to us. In a world that is growing increasingly hostile to the US, we should keep our Western style democracy Canadian neighbor on good terms. Anyway, this discussion belongs in another forum but I want to respond to the criticism of Canadian neighbor. Enough said, let's leave at that. [/QUOTE]

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