[PGR88]

We have the most expensive, complex Government in the world.

Complex things tend to collapse, so in the future, I see the US Gov’t working increasingly towards the ends of maintaining itself, at the expense of all else.

[cripplecreek]

It may be a drop in the bucket compared to entitlements but there are enough of these drops to fill a supertanker. We’re giving another hundred million to Brazil to build an aquarium. Then there are the jets we’re selling to Egypt with our money....

[SpaceBar]

Suriname is one of those countries in the western hemisphere that few “outsiders” visit unless they are in the mineral/petroleum industry, radio astronomers, or Christian missionaries. That said, it's francophone, mostly blacks mixed with other races that have descended largely from slave laborers and indentured servants working on sugar plantations, however as a people they are great. But Suriname is a hotbed of piracy, drug trafficking, and violent crime, with crushing poverty, even compared to its neighbors. And just as communism targetted poverty ridden nations as an “alternative” to capitalism, radical islamic elements are now attempting to establish a beachhead there.

[GunRunner]

I thought I read somewhere that the Chavistas hate the three little countries to the east of Venezuela, and that one of their clandestine goals was to invade, occupy, and nationalize their oil. Maybe this buildup is a reaction to that.

[bayouranger]

Considering that the State dept spent...spent..$80 million for an embassy in that sh_thole called Afghanistan that was never built should make everyone look at this through jaded glasses.

But...the filthy saudis are gearing up to build a $100 mil barracks there once we back out that’s going to rival the one built in Paki-stan.

[1010RD]

I will build it for $50 million with 10% overhead and 10% profit!