Posted on 08/01/2011 10:07:02 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
US a ‘parasite’ on world economy, says Putin
On August 1, 2011
SELIGER (AFP) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the United States of acting as a “parasite” on the world economy by accumulating massive debts that threaten the global financial system.
“The country is living in debt. It is not living within its means, shifting the weight of responsibility on other countries and in a way acting as a parasite,” Putin told a group of pro-Kremlin youth in central Russia.
He also suggested that Washington may have been flirting with the idea of a default in order to weaken the dollar “and create better conditions for exporting their goods.
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Ain’t it amazing? A communist - correctly criticizing our dim-bulb president and congress.
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yep. it’s a bizarro world.
how about this one, where RUSSIA is blocking the U.N., led by the USA, from fighting “global warming”:
Rice Lashes Out at Russia for Blocking U.N. Council From Tackling Climate Change
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2752187/posts
Main Adversary. I've heard that that label has now been replaced by
New Africa.
graphs showing Russia recovering from Communism, and putting in a 13% flat tax in 2001.
and showing our Marxist President, leading us headlong into socialism (and debt):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2755900/posts?page=4#4
Hah!
As the Dems took Marx and Lenin's work to a whole 'nother level -- the commies in Russia tacked to the right...
What a strange world.
A more fiscally responsible Government and truthful news media in old Commie Russia - and a communist government with a Big State cheer-leading Media in the Good Old United States.
Embarrassing.
It’s pathetic that we elected a President that’s too big a commie for even Putin.
The real scary thing is that a crypto-Communist understands how totalitarianism and an ever-expanding state destroys a country better than our leaders.
Well we do have a very large potion of our population who are parasites. They all vote a straight party ticket and love Obama. We also pay them to breed and provide free medical care for their offspring. Their proportion of the population is growing and I really think we are doomed.
I recall that when they had the USSR, Russia was like a tapeworm devouring the productivity of the Soviet satellites.
We need to default and get our debt forgiven by the IMF like this puto Putin’s Russkies had.
*****We’ll keep borrowing money to maintain an artificially elevated standard of living until we can’t any more. Then US living standards will fall to world norms.*****
Then all hell will break loose is more like it.
...the world turned upside down.
He may be right.
We are so screwed up it isn’t even funny.
Russia is an expert on how to default.
He is 100% correct.
GET RID of the ENTITLEMENTS to make that ex-KGB AH a liar.
Someone should remind Putin.....and Europe.....that the United States spent trillions of American taxpayer dollars defending Western Europe from the Soviet Union for a period of 50 years +.
And who footed the bill for the rebuilding of Europe after the war.....The Marshall Plan?
My late father used to call us “Uncle Sap.”
Funny, we accumulated a lot of that debt taking his country down. They went bankrupt before we did. We paid for a free Europe and we’re still paying today. Wonder if anyone pointed that out to him.
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