In the 1980’s hysteria over Japanese investment and automobile imports was at an all-time high. Vitriol from laid off union auto workers was directed at the imported automobiles and the financial papers painted a picture of a Japanese buyout of America.
There was land speculation, commercial building acquisitions, farms purchased and even on Saturday morning cartoons… there were shows like Speed Racer and host of hyper-flashy “japanimation” programs.
The United States was bracing for a hostile takeover… and then nothing much happened. Japan lurched into their “lost decade” in the 1990’s and a monster depression wiped out much of their net worth.
America was saved, until now.
Now, the Saudi Arabians savvy land speculators have mastered a scheme so lucrative they can barely disguise their glee.
Union workers are worried, farmers feel cheated and the press is declaring that Saudi Arabia is buying up the American south-west
Please see the next page for Saudi Arabia’s reach into the continental United States.
We keep bringing in free loading refugees and fighting to keep illegals. Open borders for drugs and illegals. Trillions in trade deficit. Keep bankrupting America, while the rest of the world is doing marvelous things in their countries. Can we name anything marvelous we did in America recently.
This practice needs to stop. It should be illegal for foreigners to own land in the U.S!
They can buy all they want !! The land will always belong to the United States !!!
No non US citizen should ever be aloud to own land in the USA. Leases are fine, owning American land is another story. Same with corporations, they are international so owning property in the US should be illegal.
I disagree. The land should be owned by Americans and leased to corporations and/or non citizens.
Victor Turner your right . But all land even what we buy belongs to the government and they are free to take it back without paying us a penny !!!
If they cannot tie a rope around it and drag it home, it is still ours. 😉 No worries.
So the saudis are using the money we give them to buy their oil, which in return they use to buy up all our land! We’re screwing ourselves! Makes perfect sense!
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