[beyond the sea]

ping

[Drango]

Snooze-max

[SubMareener]

You forgot the BARF ALERT!

[Crazieman]

Newsmax go lefty?

[Glenn]

Does this mean I don't have to go to work tomorrow?

[Fenris6]

preoccupied with nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.

At least his put his disqualifier at the front of the article. Saves me time ;)

[Petronski]

Roberts WISHES this were so. Mostly, he's just a nutjob. Here's a fresh turd from real Paul Craig Roberts, new darling of the left:

Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself
By Paul Craig Roberts
Counterpunch.org

12 -13 February 2005 Edition

As things fall apart, lie and lie again.

Suppose you are the party responsible for invading a country under totally false pretenses. Suppose you had totally unrealistic expectations about the consequences of your gratuitous aggression.

What do you do when, instead of being greeted with flowers, you find your army is tied down by insurgents and you have no face-saving way to get out of the morass? If you are the moronic Bush administration, you blame someone else.

Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, Cheney and Bush blame Syria and Iran for the troubles that they brought upon themselves. The Iraqi insurgency, say the Five Morons, is the fault of Syria and Iran.

BLAH BLAH BLAH

[ConservativeMind]

I disagree with most of what the author has stated.

We could shrink our economy to that of Russia ten years back and still be a superpower. We have the nuclear technology and knowhow that will keep us number one for many, many decades.

Economically speaking, the tax code can incentivize the market in healthy ways, unleashing our talent and energies to do more good for all. Purchasing more things made here in the US does not mean we are being made to suffer anything bad, especially if our higher quality, locally available goods are cheaper than those made elsewhere. Additionally, as things continue to prove out, our involvement in the Middle East will show fruit in time. This is evidenced by elections and other governmental progress seen in recent weeks.

We have our concerns, but the commentary provided by Newsmax is far over the top.

I look forward to having the write eat his words.

[freedom44]

What is this garbage from Newsmax?

[My2Cents]

is preoccupied with nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.

Well, maybe he'd like to explain where Saddam's weapons went to.

I've read this guy before. He's a blowhard. Don't waste the bandwidth giving him space on this board.

[Bogie]

The dollar lost about 27 percent last year, but since seems to have stabilized. Though there will probably be an other round of weakness, most of the damage is probably over. At some point Americans have to go back to work selling their products at very good international prices.

[Southack]

Drivel.

The Dollar's loss of domestic purchasing power is known as "inflation," which is trivial.

The Dollar's loss of foreign purchasing power means that Americans will buy more domestic things...hardly the stuff of economic ruin.

[jb6]

Overnight, those cheap goods in Wal-Mart, which are the no-think economist's facile justification for Wal-Mart's decimation of communities, small businesses and employment, shoot up in price.

Only so much as the cost of the oil to bring them to market. The Yuan is pegged to the dollar. Of course when you don't have any dollars to buy them with, that's another thing.

[Pro-Bush]

I thought NewsMax was like slanted tot he right? I would have expected this from Salon.com or other of similar ilk.

[snarks_when_bored]

Let's see..."the rest of the world" has the following choice: (1) continue to support America and its currency; (2) dump America and its currency, and invest faith, trust and money in the benign intentions of the Chinese or the Russians or the Iranians or the Pakistanis or the Saudis or ...

It would serve "the rest of the world" right if America decided to let it go to a hell of its own creation. But that's not the American way.

[Echo Talon]

The U.S. economy is headed toward crisis, and the political leadership of the country – if it can be called leadership – is preoccupied with nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.

This is the first sentence and I stopped reading at the end of it.

[Paul_Denton]

The U.S. economy is headed toward crisis, and the political leadership of the country – if it can be called leadership – is preoccupied with nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, to Paul Craig Roberts's dread, freedom is spreading like wildfire in the mideast. Dictators are terrorists are falling in a dominao effect that was touched off by Afganistan and Iraq. Syria pulls out pf Lebanon, Egypt allows elections for the first time.

[EternalVigilance]

Leftist wishful thinking...

[Porterville]

He is the problem with the thesis: AMERICANS work harder than all the other pieces of shit all over the world- period.

Story closed, thesis debunked.

[Porterville]

Here is the problem with the thesis: AMERICANS work harder than all the other pieces of shit all over the world- period.

Story closed, thesis debunked.