US consumer spending in April weakest in 3 months

[NYC_SKP]

1. We spend too much. More spending = more importing, more waste, more energy use...

It's not a popular notion, but except for spending on local goods and services, like food and US made goods and trades and crafts services, like painting or home repair, most of our money goes to China or Indonesia or elsewhere.

Everything that isn't made here comes on container ships burning fuel oil, diesel.

Our current economic system relies not only on sustained economic activity, but on endless growth of that activity.

And we humans drive that, spending what could be savings or investments while those at the top profit, and others diddle around with hedge fund making billions.

We need to stop it, we need to consume less stuff and try our hardest to limit what we buy to domestic goods.