Posted on 02/22/2006 3:54:45 AM PST by LouAvul
I've made up my mind that deal is not finished, and I'm content to let existing laws and existing markets govern. I've decided that market should decide ownership, especially when it's in a US market. Hysterical politics is a side show. This deal should be allowed to stand on its merits without any new laws from old crazy Hilary.
Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge are probably the only presidents who have actually understood economics. Kennedy borrowed an insight from others and reduced taxes. Carter did the most immediate damage and FDR the most systemic damage. Actual Economics can only rarely be found as part of the toolkit of any major Leader. It is a tedious and boring subject and such people can't sit still long enough to learn it. With men like Bush you just have to hope that while saving the world they manage to not inflict too much damage on the economy. Unfortunately Bush has brought us vigourous inflation and more Fine Tuning. Keynesians tend to be sucked in by the greens eventually (those who don't start out that way). Bush is a "conservative" Keynesian in that he envisions results that free marketers and conservatives would support but Keynesian methods can only be counterproductive.
DPW bought P&O under UK laws and we have nothing to do with it. Our choices have to do with our government's oversight of operations under US jurisdiction. We have laws to maintain US security and they were followed. It would be a really bad idea for someone like old crazy Hilary to write new laws to screw up the deal after the fact.
Chinese nationals have committed far less violent attacks on Americans than have Arab nationals.
Maybe he was serious about that dictator thing. What was it he said? That it would be a lot easier if this was a dictatorship, but only if HE was the dictator?
1) I don't know what I think about this whole issue of DP World running the ports.
2) Whether or not I support that deal it does not make the UAE any more militarily important than it is.
3) Al Qaeda is not Iran. You said Iran to begin with, not Al Qaeda.
4) US generals are not in the habit of gratuitously insulting friendly nations. Of course they won't say the UAE is of little consequence, whether or not it is.
5) As I already stated, it is always more convenient for a nation to be a friend than a foe, even if it doesn't much matter one way or the other.
Yes we do ...
OK, fine. Whatever.
but, they still have to pay taxes to us on the profits they make ( like I said before, if they make any )
There are a lot of new posters here. I doubt if all are conservatives.
Seems like books can be cooked pretty easy, especially when they belong to a foreign govt that we want to be our friend.
Even if it no big deal, and is blown out of proportion, the administration must realise how this is going to go down with the public...people tend to vote on how they perceive things, not necessarily on how things really are.
Love your tag line, change democrats to liberals, though........
Sounds like a Lincoln Chaffing quote....
This will be forgotten in about two weeks.
This is classic media-peddled confusion, crap and controversy, to quote Alan Simpson.
Schumer, PIAPS, and Buchanan are wrong. Bush, WSJ, and the Wash Post are correct. And Hastert and Frist are cowards.
"You need a potrzebie."
Now that was downright furshlugginer. I am so farshimelt!
:-)
"I don't remember any Chinese on the hijacked planes."
I DO remember the Chinese in Vietnam and Korea, and we're competing more and more with them for oil. My point is that if we're going to be so paranoid about this UAE company, isn't it a little strange not to be taking a hard look at operators like the Chinese?
In reality, I see no reason why this company shouldn't operate the terminals.
It is strange to me that if this is such a good deal, why has the President taken no measures to communicate with the American people exactly WHY this is a good deal.
Outside of "If I thought it was dangerous, it wouldn't go forward."
Which, frankly, amounts to "Just trust me," and following Harriet Miers and the open borders policy, rings very hollow.
We'll have to wait and see.
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