Posted on 03/01/2006 4:59:32 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
Ahhh... And the beat goes on.
yea, I don't know much about Norm's bill just what he said on O'Reilly. just thought people would like maybe to hear some solutions floated rather than just screaming and crying.
Yeah. Even when I try to avoid these threads - there they are LOL
Check wid us next time !!
You know, China has port facilities up and down our West coast , including LA and Oakland. China's dirty laundry list would make the UAEs look like a footnote, the Chinese have been at it longer and stronger
You just don'y get it, we transform and change undemocratic nations through trade and consumerism. ( Its our secret weapon!!!!)
It's definitely marked up, which may be why it's so easy to spot when it's taken out of the deck! :D.
I'm going to be the spoiler here, and if any of you want to villify me for it go ahead.
This deal with Dubai Ports World may be a good one, and it might be a bad one. I've heard good argments on each side. I have yet to make up my mind, and I'm willing to listen to facts.
Unfortunately, I've seen a knee-jerk hysterical reaction to this deal by some of my fellow conservatives. I've read too many blogs that basically say "We can't have Arabs/Muslims running our ports! They're all terrorists and/or untrustworthy! And don't you dare call me prejudiced."
I'm not going to go through all of the issues here. Suffice it for me to make one comment; General Tommy Franks was on Tony Snow's radio show last week and said that he didn't have a problem with the deal. Now I ask you, are either of them liberal weenies?
Let's all just take a deep breath and calm down.
Perhaps someone in the administration (which I helped elect, by the way, having no other option) will bravely flip a coin.
The one thing this "deal" has done is to awaken Americans to the fact that foreign powers run a whole lot of things in our nation.
Does this indicate our ineptness? Being a "service" economy (which means, I believe, that we even outsource the GE repair scheduling to Bangalore) we should be content with flipping burgers or supervising the flippers. We'll still enjoy our two weeks of basking in the warm sunshine while Mexicans, Haitians and assorted South Americans squeeze the lemons, pour the rum and serve our drinks.
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