[thinkthenpost]

I invite you over for dinner, your kids spend the night with mine, your business buys items from mine and vice versa, our wives gossip about the family down the street, hell we're in the neighborhood watch program.

I decide to buy the house down the street, maybe rent it, maybe fix it up hell I might move in. You then kick me in the balls, call my wife a whore, try to get the kids expelled, and finally hit me up for a better price like nothing happened.

I can certainly understand the UAE's response.

The majority of Americans, probably aren't paying attention, were you aware that nearly every port terminal in this country was run by a foreign owned corporation? I knew several were, I had no idea basically all are, I do now. Obviously you are against DPW taking ove P&O,I ask how is DPW any worse than Red China?

[LibertarianInExile]

First off, your analogy is incomplete.

You forgot the part where you also hide money from the people that robbed my house, and you pay off a bonus to the families of people that murder my friends. You also left off the part where you threaten that if I don't invite you to dinner you'll stop selling gas and supplies to me at your store, and not 'let me' run the security concession for your business any more (even though you live in a high crime 'hood), and the other people interested in running your business' security would probably also take your stuff.

Further, it's incorrect. Where you say "I decide to buy the house down the street, maybe rent it, maybe fix it up hell I might move in," you add all these additional possibilities that never occurred. Nobody said you'd rent it, fix it, move in yourself, or improve it at all. You told us you were just going to be responsible for its upkeep and buying it as an investment. And we didn't like that idea because we've seen the neighborhood you come from, and don't like what your side of the tracks looks like, and know you are far more connected to your 'hood than you'll ever be to a home you're buying as an investment.

"Obviously you are against DPW taking ove P&O,I ask how is DPW any worse than Red China?"

You act as if the reaction was going to be "Then we should let the UAE in, because we need MORE security risks like China." DPW isn't worse than China. It's the SAME. We should get them out, too. Question answered.

[commonerX]

"""I invite you over for dinner, your kids spend the night with mine, your business buys items from mine and vice versa, our wives gossip about the family down the street, hell we're in the neighborhood watch program.

I decide to buy the house down the street, maybe rent it, maybe fix it up hell I might move in. You then kick me in the balls, call my wife a whore, try to get the kids expelled, and finally hit me up for a better price like nothing happened.

I can certainly understand the UAE's response.

The majority of Americans, probably aren't paying attention, were you aware that nearly every port terminal in this country was run by a foreign owned corporation? I knew several were, I had no idea basically all are, I do now. Obviously you are against DPW taking ove P&O,I ask how is DPW any worse than Red China?"""


one flaw to your analogy it should have read:

I invite you over for dinner, your kids spend the night with mine, your business buys items from mine and vice versa, our wives gossip about the family down the street, hell we're in the neighborhood watch program.

I decide to buy the house down the street, maybe rent it, maybe fix it up hell I might move in. Then my son decides that our religious writings says the neighbors are the devil and must die. He them drives a truck full of explosives into the neighbors house and kills half their family. They then kick me in the balls, call my wife a whore, try to get the kids expelled, and finally hit me up for a better price like nothing happened.