Posted on 05/01/2008 9:17:15 AM PDT by BMC1
... but France is turning around under Zman.
Got this one yesterday as well, was going to post, but you
beat me to it. Thanks for posting, hopefully more will see it now.
Mission accomplished?
WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT,
“any”...?
I like being in Iraq. It seems to bother OBL.
I would dearly love to here our President say this.
Apparently, the author does not realize two things:
1) US foreign aid is very small;
2) A good chunk of it goes to Egypt and Israel.
They completely missed the eviction of the UN & our withdrawal from same.
Otherwise, I agree.
It doesn’t matter how small our foreign aid is. Cut it ALL off.
Have you been watching the riots in Egypt. That country used to be known as the breadbasket of the old world.
Maybe by the time we get the Alaska oil fields in production, the economy might recover enough to support doing what we do now. (but I doubt it)
Ya know, We use 8.9 billion bbl’s of oil a year in this country. I wonder if there really is enough oil in Alaska to provide for our needs.
Lets see, if we import 60%, and use 9billion, then we need to produce about 5billion bbl’s a year from the Alaska oil fields. How big is the Anwar field? How big are the entire Alaska fields?? Seems to me we should be spending more time/effort on shale oil and coal-to-oil technology.
Now, since we wish to be isolationist, where will we get all those rare metals we need for the aerospace and other technical industries (ya know, Beryllium, Gallium, Titanium, etc, etc) Do we go to the third world mines and take them?? (oops, I forgot. We are building our wall, putting the military on the borders and staying on our side. To he** with the rest of the world.)
While this would be satisfying to our ego, it would hurt us more than it would help. (unless you want to use NASA to go grab a couple of asteroids to mine??)
YOU for president!
Although in the real world, I wouldn’t pull out of Iraq like that. I want to finish the job.
Wouldn’t it be great to turn off the TV and never turn it on again?
I am also tired of the democrate who now control Congress preventing us from drilling oil on our own soil. Bill Clinton, vetoed the bill allowing us to drill in ANWR in 1994. We could be using that oil now instead of giving our money to other countries who hate us.
There is plenty of oil in North Dakota. We could be drilling in the Gulf, the same place other countries are drilling in. We could be drilling in the Atlantic.
We could have Nuclear power but we don't because environmentalists and the democrat party.
How long do you think we will continue to put up with this crap?
It's time to make our congress do something constructive instead of destructive and I don't mean taxing the oil companies or any of the other garbage they have come up with.
We are Americans and we can do whatever we put our minds to.
3) And we buy most of our oil from Canada.
4) China is more than willing to take our place on the world stage.
:)
Right you are, Philly! Good one!
Cut the military to fund the socialist security system? That’s a dumb rat idea. I’d rather sell off the US weapons testing grounds and training bases since Iraq serves that purpose. The US now has the most battle-seasoned military in the world and is ready to crush all challengers. The way to solve the social security problem is flood Iraq with cutting-edge military robots. Within 20 years this robot technology will transition into commercial uses and will be the source of America’s new wealth, funding social security 10 times over. Military investment has always been the origin of America’s unusually great wealth.
I would also like to be able to freeze all assets of our congress. Lower their salaries to $30,000.00 a year. Take away all their perks and make them ride public transportation.
I'll bet they would be willing to drill for oil in the US then.
I agree with Resolute.
Keep France on the short list (List 1).
Other than that, I agree wholeheartedly with the e-mail.
This is complete lying BS. We have already spent over $500 billion on the war in Iraq. Total foreign aid last year was around $30 billion.
Last year we budgeted $100 billion more for the Iraq war than for all foreign aid.
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