#641 Valuable Air

So I was at this meeting where they were talking about trade opportunities with China. One of the opportunities was tourism.
There are like some 50 million people that are expected to tourize the US from China in upcoming years.
One of the big appeals of our country is apparently that we have like, um, clean air. Whoda thunk it? All those tree huggers actually contributed a saleable commodity to our economy—fresh air.
Ecotourism in the US based on something we take for granted and breathe every day. So we need a tourist slogan to market Washington in China. We need a word that captures a clean and pleasing intake of breath.
There is none, so when I say ahhhh, picture taking in a deep and satisfying breath. Now you got it.
So we could say “Washington, Say Ahhhh.”
Or how about, “Washington, Come Breathe with us.”
Or we could highlight our relative emptiness compared to their crowded cities as well. “Washington, Room to Breathe.” I like it.
The other trade opportunity the delegation talked about was manufacturing assembly. In which they make the parts and we put them together.
This helps both economies, as they get the benefit of the money from the parts, it’s cheaper to ship the pieces and we get the benefit of our labor force putting stuff together while we get the parts cheaper than we would have normally.
Which I then left the meeting and put into immediate practice, as I am assembling these toy boxes for my radio station that each have about fifty pieces, with screws and cams and little wooden dowels and allen wrenches and stuff. Very mind numbing, very time consuming, but very cheap.
So I’m doing my little part to encourage world trade and assemble world peace—one piece at a time.
I felt like a college student putting together his first Ikea furniture suite. No sense of accomplishment because I wasn’t really building anything after all, just assembling.
And the biggest thing to show for it a bunch of allen wrench blisters.
But hey, at least we can breathe easier when it’s all done.
America, ya gotta love it