Posted on 11/15/2005 4:20:38 AM PST by CarrotAndStick
That's good. I think it's vital that we have a strong relationship with India. They are a democracy, are having many of the same problems with Islam we are, and will be an economic powerhouse in the future.
I know that ten years ago, Hindus were the religious group with the highest per capita income. I seem to remember two years ago reading a report in the NY Times (I know) that Indian Americans now had higher per capita incomes than any other demographic.
Amazingly, when you look at per capita income, the groups that are in the top 10 include Persians, Armenians, Japanese, Indians, and Greeks.
I have repaired my own broken fingers, stiched my own lacerations, anything to avoid going to a M.D. and dealing with the Insurance Company. Hope I don't need any Brain surgery, the battery on my Makita Drill is dead.
Many of India's present-day Dalit leaders and industrialists were educated in the UK and USA.
And who was it provided Japan with the means to emerge from the feudal ages?
Who was it forced Japan to trade with the outside world?
Who was it inspired Japan to industrialize?
Who was it introduced Japan to the technological means to wage modern war?
Free traitors of earlier generations.
And for what? Cheap silk?
Had we left Japan be, there would have been no Pearl Harbor.
And I note Japan attacked America over oil.
Just you watch: those third world societies you want to help industrialize will develop an insatiable addiction to oil, and will one day fight us over oil as well.
I see by playing the race card, you fear my truth.
Our kids barely pass Women's Studies and Physical Education.
How does educating foreigners and giving them and their countries the future that might have gone to our kids, solve our problem of making America's kids smarter?
Hmm... the situation's even worse off than I thought:
http://www.payscale.com/salary-survey/vid-45677/fid-6886
That is definitely not a good salary for the educational investment & hours put in by any means; also note the unusual wages vs. cost-of-living patterns.
OK. So I understood you corretly to begin with. You're an idealist isolationist, and the Nazis, Soviets and Islamists all would've let us be if we had just kept all of our jobs at home, stopped all use of oil, and been the France of America.
Nobody--not even the Nazis--has bothered Switzerland for centuries.
We should simply mind our own business, too, and let the rest of the world exhaust itself quarrling.
Indeed, had we refrained from entering WWI, there probably would have been no Nazis and no WWII.
Etc.
Again, this ain't some new brilliant idea you've got there. Isolationism is old as hell and it still has adherents, sure. It dovetails nicely with your worldview of "foreign workers that live in huts and eat rice every night, so they can afford to work for peanuts."
There's a few people that look at the reality of history and disagree with Isolationism (such as GW on Sep 12), and don't think Switzerland is geographically, economically or otherwise comparable to America. Enjoy.
Yes they are nice, but they have a lot of Socialist in that country.
If we weren't meddling in the politics of the mideast, and teaching them all about technology (like how to fly planes), there would have been no 911.
That elevates you from dabbling nut, to certified disconnected from reality.
It's no secret.
In the 1970s, America made a deal with the rulers of Saudi Arabia.
Goes like this:
The rulers of Saudi Arabia agreed to keep the oil flowing to the USA.
In return, the USA will use its power to keep the rulers of SA in power.
And so should any faction want to dethrone SA's rulers, the USA provides the Saudi rulers the means to supress the rebels.
And so we stuck ourselves in the middle of another country's internal power struggles.
What would you expect--the rebels would be nice to us?
It's no accident the terrorists of 911 were Saudis.
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