The world has changed. It's not enough to simply buy American; we have to sell American, sell our products and goods and services throughout this world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.
We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.
Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.
So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.
The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.
But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
Let's make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world.