US Economy Explained

International trade brings other nations markets in and as well grows the competition market with an option that can not be bought out.  This is a net good thing for the economy. How ever you get the greedy corporations and exec's get tariff's on trade thrown up to stifle the out of nation market coming in to drive up costs to boost their income. International trade that goes on long enough permanently interlinks 2 or more nations economies resulting in if one fails they all fail.  Any tariff in this level of interlinking will cause an economic down turn to all. Tariffs too high results in business's that tapped into the markets of other nations forces those business's to raise costs to consumers, layoff staff, relocate, or just close down.

There are a number of orgs that have been springing up like weeds since 2010 after ' Citizens United ' was enacted.  Not even kidding less then 800 total since the 1960's, but starting 2010 the number jumped rapidly to over 1.5mil. Profiteers to hide their true intent and their names create non-profit orgs to do fighting on their behalf in the name of greed in direct opposition against any measure, project, or legislation that aims to improve QoL of residents, reduce long term spending by residents, or divert spending by residents from their corporations.

Here we have a mental block of thinking of shot term and being individual, neither is working toward the full picture or the future. Exhaust emission controlling, Most people go with what the industry has been doing and that is adding all these mechanical additions to the engine and other areas.  This actually cause's more exhaust to be produced by increasing vehicle wait and reducing the engines ability to breath, both accounts reduce effective horse power and thus needing more work to do less.  To effectively reduce emissions is increase fuel efficiency and horse power to weight ratio, less power for more work. Another area of contention is time sitting at idle and total travel time.  This can be helped by reducing the total number of vehicles on the road.  Encourage public transit use, expand public transit access, remove long distance trucking, increase number of train stopping points. Other then individual's wanting to have their own being a holding point ...

They do effect economy, but not in a bad way that current administration tries to say. The jobs they do have for since the 1700's have been nearly entirely made up of none white work force.  So where in that are they taking american jobs ? All documented workers pay taxes, even those on a green card or temp vesa.  So where are they costing money ? Crime happening is mostly done by those born in the US and are citizens through birth. Undocumented individuals stay low and live off the grid.  They don't take jobs where they need to pay taxes.  They don't commit crimes in fear of being deported.  They only consume less then $100 in food a month which is mostly from food donations.

When military spending increases by the federal executive branch exceeds beyond what military leaders them self ask for, you can note something else not being discussed is being mismanaged. These excess funds can be better spent else where like: Healthcare, infrastructure, internet expansion, renewable energy. To go along with a military budget is personal.  You have active duty personal that just like any job requires them to be full time at hours of 30-40hrs per week.  Spending is the same on these people deployed or not.  Differences between deployed and not: Deployed they are: covering assets, helping assure diplomatic relations, helping other nations in need, doing random tasks, disrupting major crime in other areas like pirates and gangs that disrupt economy and travel. Not deployed they are: mostly running laps around base, taking up part-time local jobs, disrupting local economy. ^^^  Yes it would be nice to have personal at home near family/friends...

Banks though one of the only ways to store grow and transfer wealth is sadly a very abused system not by the account holders but the bank staff. Greed is so high they gamble and speculate on loans and is so high and care is so little they do not even look into where or who is creating a new loan. Loans are often traded like some sort of gambling token where they speculate on them to see if the trader can get a profit from the buying and selling of loans.  While these loans exchange hands they have odds of the amount owned by the holder increased.  These trades don't look at current owed amount but at the original set amount. Because of so many underhanded, shady and back room deals.  Not all paper work is filled or kept, so some loans and accounts can get created under someones name but that person did not create or file those them self. Mortgages they have programs to help when you can't afford or fall behind, but these do not become accessible until near 4 month...

No matter where you start looking for why something costs so much, all paths lead back to executive compensation. Executive base pay doesn't seem that unreasonable given most are putting avg 90 hour work weeks as most of the work includes travel, dinners and meetings on top of normal paperwork and phone calls.  How ever if they move their paperwork and phone calls to an assistant then the executive's base pay should come down...but it doesn't. But when it comes to compensation, wow is it beyond astronomical with avg 5x greater then base pay and this is not a replacement of base pay but an addition to base pay.  This results into totals exceeding 2mil for most. If there is any where to first hit to equalize the economy and bring it back into self sustaining order this is where to swing.

This is by far hits home to more people then income does.  The ability to save and to purchase assets.  Cost of living avg in the US is 25k/y and climbing fast, full time minimum wage is 19-21k/y which is barely moving upward.  Income that is around cost of living or lower can never save and are lucky to improve their future. Those receiving aid are limited on savings and assets to the point they can not stop receiving aid.  No saving in bank accounts, no improving residence to save monthly spending, no purchasing tools to expand or change state of self employment.  Really anything that can help you get off aid and improve your future stops you from receiving aid before you even reach that point you can leave aid. College sounds like it will improve your future, it can but at an enormous cost that will forever end your future in an endless mountain of debt.  A college degree is not a 100% guarantee, the chance of working in the field of your degree is l...

Yes there is a small difference in pay between men and women a few jobs, but not as many as people think.  The real crime comes what incentive programs and tax credits they can't claim that men can.  Even more of a problem is what is referred to as the ' Pink Tax '. Pink Tax is items targeted to women or required for women.  Clothes for women are on avg 50% higher then for men.  Drug store products are 25% higher.  Then you have the fact women are held to a higher appearance standard with everything; weight, body shape, clothes, makeup, shoes. For shoes a man can get away with just 1 pair for every occasion.  A woman how ever no matter their social or economy standing they need at least 5 pairs. For clothes a man can get away with 3-4 days of changes and often can a whole month and not change at all.  A woman how ever needs a different outfit for each day for at least 2 weeks. Women need to spend 4-5 times more then men on 10-25% less income.

Public transit has a lot of pit falls. Public school bus, unsafe with no seat belts and driver's needing to spend more time watching kids then driving. Lack of public transit options outside of very large cities. Subidized to reduce costs while creating profit from one type misused in place of another. Rider safety in more then one way; physical, biological, and mental. The lead goal of public transit is to reduce the impact of traffic on the roads, which sounds like it should cost less to use public transit over driving your self. Far too much public transit is used for profit with little care about riders.  Now in light of profit some forms work fine for profit as in the small number rider types like Taxi's.  Taxi's don't really reduce impact of traffic on roads and in effect paying someone to drive you with the same impact of you driving your self and thusly should cost more then to drive your self. Bus use for use outside of town gets more costly to use ...

People still clinging on to the old home services are spending more to hold on a dying service then to catch up to modern times and switch to mobile and streaming. Even bundled services do not include landline anymore.  Mobile phone is long distance and portable costing only $45 avg on the low end while land line with long distance not portable costing $60 avg on the low end. For a business line this is different and excusable, but cheaper at $40 avg a line for POTS which is cheaper the mobile service. Cable costing a crazy $80 for the smallest package that may not have all the content you want and your forced to view on their time table.  While even 5 streaming services with little to no limits getting more out of each can run you $35-50.

Socialite wannabes can rack such huge amounts of debt in bills and even convince other people to pay for things.  These are not con artist, they are not looking to con money out of people to get them self rich but instead looking to live a perceived life style that they hear about other people living which most cases those other people's family obtain their money by ill gotten means at some point.  How ever these people still pull most of the same con's that con artists do but instead conning someone else to either pay a bill, arrange someone to set up something with their name instead of the wannabes, even befriending and brainwashing people to the point they will go in debt them self to keep this person living the high life. Entitlist behavior is where someone with so much provable money is given a free run to run up bills and debt with out needing to actually pay it off.  This kind of behavior spurs on the later in behaving as they do as the two on occasion will hang...

Something that should be looked into the most is actually larger with held and unfounded to prevent new advancements reducing current potential income, or a reduction in options to exploit. Most advancement in science is what brings more profit to corporations.  Or the military can exploit them self. Patent misuse endlessly.  Bought by greedy corps through a contract agreement to use it them self to continue research, but instead just to stop research and to shelved as a means to keep profits up.  Yes the patent technically stolen with how it's handled. Environmental is stopped at every corner unless it involves something with great potential to destroy property and thus end profit growth. Yes far far too many politictions are totally ignorant on the topic and thus way to easy to tilt by greedy corps, and after enough lies they will sound like they don't or don't beleave in science.  So it should be a requirement that a politician have a good grasp of the bas...