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needs to be addressed...
"Let me make my point and then you can dismiss me." She then finished with an example of a McCain campaign co-chair in Florida's bathroom activities. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/17/joe-sc... should have asked Joe about the dead girl in his office and he wouldn't even have waited for a commercial to high tail it out of there!! http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/lar...
Speaking Monday at a fascinating on-the-record session on U.S.-Russia relations at the Nixon Center, former Reagan administration official Robert McFarlane declared that McCain's first year as president would be "neocon redux." McFarlane, who was Reagan's national security advisor and who supports McCain's candidacy, emphasized that he wasn't speaking as a member of McCain's team, but as a practical realist and private citizen. His remarks were uttered in a calm tone, and all the more blistering for it. McFarlane pointed out that Ronald Reagan was dealing with a declining Soviet Union and from a position of strength, while McCain would be dealing with a resurgent Russia, one that it would be foolish to heedlessly antagonize. According to McFarlane, "the youngsters" would run foreign policy the first year and then likely be "fired" by the second after they mess up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/m...
Right now, people all over are complaining about road conditions which many states and municipalities are not repairing, for lack of funds. The state road near me is so full of potholes, you're forced to drive all over the road to try to avoid them. And in the case of private companies who locate their stores, etc. on these roads, which they're made to improve for their increase in traffic (at least in NC), the private contractors doing the work on turn lanes, widening, etc. have a very poor record of doing the work as it should be done.
Frankly, I'm not willing to take the bait on this one and people should look further than their immediate gratification of a few bucks saved a week. If you think it's a good idea and your car is destroyed by bad roads, what have you gained?
Looking back at news articles, people were concerned at the Dollar when it hit the $1.20 to the Euro. That was a long time ago. Only after the "R" word has been uttered. This is the same crap that brought us "Deficits don't matter."
We should take away their toys and place them in the corner for a decade or so.
Maybe Iraq was a war started not to get their oil so much as to disrupt it so much as to drive oil prices up like it is now. Especially with the global warming denial and the resistance to alternative energy and pushing the bigger gas hog vehicles. This all could have been more about driving the price up and profits then, stealing the oil from the middle east.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087...
The continuation of the class war and the shift of direction in wealth to the rich and very rich continues.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087...
Guess he's going to print more money, too...you know, the cheap kind. Get your wheelbarrows ready.
This is difficult for any American of this generation to read, because we have grown up with the assumption that the security of the United States is intimately tied to massive amounts of spending for military preparedness.
The vast majority of military spending has absolutely nothing to do with what the troops want or need. The recent examples of the lack of adequate armor on vehicles carrying troops, to the abysmal conditions in the military hospital system, are more than just anomalies. The military industrial complex, of which we had been warned in the farewell address of Dwight Eisenhower, does not value the troops, the US citizen army, highly in its equations.
The United States has reached its limit. It can no longer aspire to be 'the world's policeman.' We are not able to do this and maintain a viable and healthy democracy at home. We are not protecting ourselves and our liberties; we are promoting the interests of pseudo-american global corporations around the world. As Mussolini observed, corporatism is fascism.
The global corporate complex, though nominally based in part in the US, exists for its own purposes, serves its own purposes, and consumes everything which we the American people hold most valuable: our lives, our liberties, and our pursuit of peace and happiness with justice for all.
Some of the damage can never be rectified. There are, however, some steps that the U.S. urgently needs to take. These include reversing Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for the wealthy, beginning to liquidate our global empire of over 800 military bases, cutting from the defense budget all projects that bear no relationship to national security and ceasing to use the defense budget as a Keynesian jobs program. If we do these things we have a chance of squeaking by. If we don't, we face probable national insolvency and a long depression.
The only way to bring down oil prices is to drill for more oil in America but Democrats are blocking that. Why do Democrats hate American drivers?