2010-01-28, 17:02 | Link #5801 |
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Ugh, Dance your ass off is another one. A really bad cross between The Biggest Loser and So You Think You Can Dance? It's truly shocking. I hate that sort of reality TV, and agreeing with cors8, The Amazing Race is the only one I'd watch, only for suggestions on where I'd wanna go for holiday and what car I should take?
Oh I so wish I could see those, but I'm on a phone, is it about their new Camry Hybrid?
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2010-01-28, 20:30 | Link #5802 |
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U.S. senate votes ro raise debt limit...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/...ate_debt_limit
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2010-01-28, 22:31 | Link #5804 |
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No objections to requiring a balanced budget... many states seem to manage. However.... as we've seen senators from both sides don't seem to have a problem with keeping large operations off the books so they can pretend they've balanced things.
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2010-01-29, 04:15 | Link #5806 |
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I object, given the way the government is run in the state that I live in (California) I'm inclined to believe we need more government spending on realistic projects, like repairing existing roads (not building new roads to nowhere), getting the HSR line between SF and LA built right, (to take pressure off of in-state air routes) and investing in local rail transit projects (as a catalyst for developing both cities and suburbs, and also to take pressure off of roads and freeways).
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2010-01-29, 07:07 | Link #5809 |
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They will fight, of course. America's pretty proud of its achievements, but how can it fight? It has a huge debt to take care of, and it can't afford a war with another country now when it's in a position where it would be better for the US to worry about its own hide. And if by fight, you actually mean economic competition, China's already paving its way up the mountain while the US isn't getting anywhere the way it is now. People have been saying it for many years that there's a huge chance that China's going to replace the US. As things look, we're getting closer and closer to that.
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2010-01-29, 08:47 | Link #5810 | |
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Further, militarily speaking, the US is unmatched and will remain so for a long time. Quite simply there is no other nation on earth with the logistical capability to match the US. There are nations like China with a larger army, but they don't have the ability to deploy it much beyond their border. A lot of US military spending isn't in combat troops, tanks, ships, or aircraft, but in logistics troops, trucks, transport ships, transport aircraft, and overseas bases to deploy from. As a result the US has far more power projection capability than any other nation and that isn't going to change any time soon. As for the US economy not growing as fast as nations like China or India, of course it isn't. Those are developing nations. The US on the other hand is already developed. Most new American growth is the result of making existing industry more efficient. there's simply less room to grow. China's economy can't continue growing at it's current pace either. It's going to have to slow, if not sink into recession.
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2010-01-29, 09:19 | Link #5811 | |
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2010-01-29, 09:25 | Link #5812 | |
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Obama Plan Privatize Astronaut Launching.
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Now that I think about it, isn't that the reverse of what the Russians have been doing? Instead of financing the scientific program with space tourism, they are gonna end funding the space tourism sector with public money!
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2010-01-29, 10:32 | Link #5813 | |
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This came out a week ago, but it doesn't seem to be on many people's radar. It's not earth-shattering news, but on the medical front, it's rather promising.
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2010-01-29, 11:04 | Link #5814 | |
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2010-01-29, 12:22 | Link #5816 | ||
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You could even say Globalization is a ploy for US colonialism, it being a byproduct of capitalism. If it wasn't for that, the world wouldn't be in such a huge debt right now. Because world economies are connected to one another through franchises and outsourcing, what happens to Mr. X will affect Mr. Y. But, I've already said this before, so I don't feel the need to go on. |
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2010-01-29, 12:29 | Link #5817 |
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I'd say FDR has done more damage to the U.S. than Bush could dream about doing. The social programs he started, gave birth to new ones decades later. Those social programs have been used, and mis-used, and have taken over much of our economy, while they are going bankrupt in the process.
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2010-01-29, 12:36 | Link #5818 | |
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@justinstrife FDR saved the world and with American tax dollars turned the great depression and made the US the supreme super power of the past century. He is the reason why America is the most dominant nation, his spiritual successor Johnson on the other hand was an utmost failure. Those programs you say you hate? They are the reason why there is a middle class, when nobody would hire people FDR did the hard thing and hired those people, you must have forgotten about the great depression to solely blame fdr for this. Not to mention his push to go to war and fund the allies when congress was set to appease the Nazi establishment. |
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The idea that any one media organisation operates like a hive mind, deviously scheming as one, to fleece gullible laymen of their pennies — while making for terrific Hollywood fare — is at best only half true and, at worst, no better informed than some of the supposedly learned opinion in the West on how best to tackle difficult social, political and economic issues of multi-layered problems like those in, say, the Middle East. Can media organisations be deceptive? Of course! Do they sometimes get their facts wrong? Of course! Are they all part of a grand conspiracy to brainwash the people? Hmm... |
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