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We are selling our assets, and mortgaging our children's future
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| March 13, 2006
| David Marriott
Posted on 03/13/2006 7:09:56 AM PST by Willie Green
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"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country." -- President Andrew Jackson - (1824)
To: Willie Green
Yeah, but the crack whore free traders tell us if we don't keep it up the whole economy is going to crumble. Kind of like a drug dealer telling a client that if he kicks the habit he will feel bad.
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:12:30 AM PST
by
junta
(It's Jihad stupid! Liberals, Jihadis and the Mexican elite all deserving of "preemption.")
To: Willie Green
I thought Japan bought all of America in the 1980s. Jeez its hard to keep up with who owns us now.
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:13:11 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(The Prophet Muhammed, Piss Be Upon Him)
To: junta
Yeah, but the crack whore free traders tell us if we don't keep it up the whole economy is going to crumble. Hey, its true. Withouht cheap goods produced by workers living their Third World lifestyles, we'd be screwed. Which is what makes us THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH!
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:14:44 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: Willie Green
The one and only time in the history of the US that the government owed positively nothing to anyone was under the leadership of Andy Jackson.
"Old Hickory" bump.
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:15:08 AM PST
by
RexBeach
("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
To: Willie Green
Hey let's sell those assets to the longshoremen's union.
Oh wait a minute, your heroes, the unions, have never ran a business, just sponge off and ruin them.
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:19:04 AM PST
by
Dane
( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
To: Willie Green
IIRC, amidst all the furor about the Japanese purchase of Rockefeller Center someone said (paraphrasing), "so what, they can't move it to Japan."
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:20:13 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("If I were a Cuban, I'd certainly be on a raft," Isane Aparicio Busto)
To: Willie Green
The Federal government is the largest landowner in America.
Why not sell off Federal land to pay off debt?
As a side note, we could restrict purchasers to American citizens and corporations but permit long term (99 year) leases to foreign inestors.
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:20:22 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: Willie Green
I am surprised at the recent outrage regarding the sale of American port operations to a United Arab Emirates' company, President Bush's proposal allowing foreign ownership of domestic airlines, etc. Let's just say anything we want to, the truth is irrelevant if it does not comport with our bigotry.
Again for the ill informed we were not selling port operations. The port assets in question, terminal and other assets were being and would continue to be leases.
I can't see any difference fiscally who assumes the leases.
But hey go wild guys spout off as to how it is Bush's fault and we dodged a big bullet by not selling our assets.
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:23:07 AM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: Mike Darancette
It's hopeless. Truth is irrelevent.
To: Willie Green
And our man Mitch is selling our highways, too. Well, only for 75 years.
But he needs that money so we can eminent domain a bunch of farmland and towns to complete the NAFTA highway.
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:37:05 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: mysterio
Batten down the hatches, seal the borders, put tariffs on everything so weak, ailing manufacturing jobs filled with high wage union workers with big heath care packages can compete! That's the ticket!
Who cares if we ever sell anything to another country again, because WE can't compete. We can live in a communist utopia, like the USSR did. /s
To: BenLurkin
"Why not sell off Federal land to pay off debt? As a side note, we could restrict purchasers to American citizens and corporations but permit long term (99 year) leases to foreign inestors." A couple ideas worthy of consideration.
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posted on
03/13/2006 7:54:22 AM PST
by
CowboyJay
(Rough Riders! Tancredo '08)
To: Willie Green
"I am surprised at the recent outrage regarding the sale of American port operations to a United Arab Emirates' company."
The port deal is a bad premise for the sentiment expressed in the remainder of the article. The ports were already operated by a foreign company to begin with. From an economic perspective at least, whether that company was British or UAE doesn't really matter.
To: Dane
Oh wait a minute, your heroes, the unions, have never ran a business, just sponge off and ruin them. Don Corleone was a very successful businessman, Dane.
I would've thought that you, of all people, would be in favor of imported olive oyl.
To: Willie Green
Don Corleone was a very successful businessman, Dane Whatever willie, if you hold up don corleone as another Andrew Jackson, that's your perogative.
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posted on
03/13/2006 8:00:56 AM PST
by
Dane
( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
To: Willie Green
This is the guy that explains our economy in "crack whore" terms.
The one who will try to tell you economics by explaining how our President is hiding all our sorrows behind false signs of a healthy economy during a time when our country is engaged in a war.
Welcome to "Flim Flam Economics".
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posted on
03/13/2006 8:01:15 AM PST
by
CBart95
To: Nathan Zachary
Let's move all our factories to third world countries so we can make things real cheap. Those darn factory workers are so greedy to want to earn a living. We should teach them a lesson.
Whoops, turns out those manufacturing employees were a large part of the economic base of this country, and when they stop buying, corporations are going to be screwed.
All sarcasm aside, there's a happy medium. We don't have to become the USSR with a completely isolationist economy, and we don't have to let the free traders ship all of our jobs overseas.
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posted on
03/13/2006 8:05:06 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: Dane
You're the schizophrenic who's implying that American longshoremen are EVIL bogeymen, Dane.
To: Willie Green
Didn't this happen before, in the 1980's, when the Japanese banks (owned by the governments) bought lots of US assets like highrise office buildings, etc? And then they had their own financial crises, and Americans bought them back for pennies on the dollar?
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