JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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GJDailleult
I have to say I am a bit surprised here. I thought people here just pretended be in the dark so they could fight their little political war games. But you guys really are in the dark aren't you. Who are my sources??? Pretty much every financial news site, magazine, and newspaper in the world, right-wing, left-wing and center, that is who. With the exception of the Wall Street Journal op-ed page of course, those guys are serious Kool-Aid drinkers. Also, pretty much all of the major financial blogs out there are sources too.
It is said that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water he will immediately jump out. But put the same frog in a pot of cool water, and then slowly turn up the heat, he will just sit there until he is cooked to death. Friendly advice guys, get out of the pot, the heat has been being turned up slowly since the 70's, and not just in the good old U.S. of A.
Posted in: Obama calls for unity in State of the Union address
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GJDailleult
Mfa and WilliB, thanks for making my point for me so well.
Posted in: Obama calls for unity in State of the Union address
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GJDailleult
The USA's problem is not "competitiveness". The problem is that the financial and monetary systems have collapsed, and nobody is willing / able / uncorrupted enough to deal with that. This is just another blind alley to lead people down to keep the media busy and the public in the dark. A lot of talk about nothing dreamed up by the usual spin doctors and political image makers, but not remotely connected to anything in the real world. Just trying to make Obama look busy and like he is doing his job.
Posted in: Obama calls for new era of competitiveness
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GJDailleult
Have to say that I am always amazed at how many Americans on this site are still suckers for the political theater and still unaware of where the real causes of their problems come from. No excuse for that either in the internet age, there are lots of places to get your news now without the obvious spin and dis/misinformation.
But having said that, that comment above is one comment I can agree with 100%. Being vague is the one thing he is really good at, looks like they have decided to go with that strategy. Whatever it takes to keep kicking the can down the road I guess.
Posted in: Obama calls for unity in State of the Union address
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GJDailleult
Quick answer is NO. The real question is will the situation be better if and when the Repubs win the presidency in 2012? Too easy, the answer is also NO.
Ignore and cover up the real problem for as long as you can, but that won't work forever. One day, the bill will have to be paid.
Posted in: Obama calls for unity in State of the Union address
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GJDailleult
This is a lot like people whose house in the middle of a flood plane gets washed away, and who think if they can just rebuild the house in the same place all their problems will go away.
US government debt is not the cause, it is the effect. The predictable result of 30 plus years of economic idiocy. Also, stop using the ridiculous word "entitlements". The correct word is "necessities", if you don't want to pay for them go ahead, but use the correct word.
Posted in: Obama calls for unity in State of the Union address
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GJDailleult
Try to stay on topic. These people were not let in, they are people who want out. Condemning the attack is one thing, pretending that it is part of something else is another thing.
Posted in: Suicide bomber kills 35 at Moscow airport
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GJDailleult
Interesting that last week, Ruud Gullit was named manager of the Grozny soccer team in the Russian league. Bring in a big money foreign manager, show that things are returning to normal seems to have been the idea. If the bomber(s) turn out to be Chechen, looks like that was more PR than reality.
Also, these terrorists should be called "Chechen" terrorists, not "Islamic" terrorists. This stuff goes back decades, long before the rise of Islamic extremism.
Posted in: Suicide bomber kills 35 at Moscow airport
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GJDailleult
Sorry guys, but all that is going on here is just a lot more kicking the can down the road, and trying to extend and pretend. Lots of talk about symptoms like government debt and jobs, no talk about the disease. If you expect either party to deal with the disease, you are going to have a long, long wait, because their job is to not deal with it. As Obama is doing very skillfully right now.
Posted in: At Obama's midpoint, an altered State of the Union
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GJDailleult
Agreed. That is why he got the job. Same as everybody else in the Demopulican party.
Or is that Republocratic party?
Posted in: Obama refocuses on job creation efforts
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GJDailleult
Unfortunately, that is 100% correct. Obama also appears to have zero understanding of economics and the causes of the current situation, and zero interest in finding out. Just interested in filling all the top positions with the usual flunkies who only care about keeping the Ponzi scheme going.
Bad news for the USA, and bad news for everybody else who has to live with food and energy price inflation due to all the counterfeit US dollars flooding the world as they try to save the bankrupt US financial system. Oops sorry, I mean the "quantitative easing" intended to stimulate the American economy by increasing bank lending.
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GJDailleult
And the nice fat salary and cushy position at JP Morgan. Payoff for services rendered.
Who exactly do you think gets rich when governments go into debt to remove the dictators, the same dictators that those same governments backed in their rise to power in the first place?
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GJDailleult
That zombie is not going to die easy is it. The USA itself is evidence that the whole idea that cutting taxes makes economies grow is nonsense. Don't get me wrong I hate taxes as much as anybody, but they are a symptom, not the disease.
I suspect Romeo has no clue how correct his comment is, or just who exactly is on the dole.
Sorry Tea, but I have lost track of how many "worst" things have happened to America. Maybe you could make a list of the top 100 "worst" things so we heathens can keep up. "Educate the public" as the lefties like to say.
Too bad the gangster and soon-to-be cancer victim Jack Ruby suddenly found patriotism too. Never been much of a Kennedy conspiracy theory guy myself, but the events of the last three years of so have made me skeptical of my skepticism.
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GJDailleult
I know this is a long way down the road, but has anybody anywhere noticed or commented on the ridiculous fact that by giving the WC to Qatar and planning to play every game in the evening because of the heat, Japan, Australia, and basically all of East Asia were given the shaft by FIFA. Every single game of the whole tournament will be played in the middle of the night here, and it will be close to impossible to either be awake or find the time to watch recorded games before you hear the results. Thanks a lot Sepp. I am kind of hoping for a really poor performance by Qatar tonight just because that, it would point out again what an absurd decision they made.
As for Japan, it might just come down to the strikers. Defense and midfield have looked good, but as always with Japan, somebody has to put the ball in the net.
Posted in: Japan faces host Qatar in Asian Cup quarterfinals
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GJDailleult
If Americans had any understanding of basic economics (which they obviously don't) then they wouldn't be in this farcical mess in the first place. Universal health insurance can not be provided at a profit by the private sector, therefore it is not. All customers get sick, and all customers die, so the true cost of the premium is too high and can't be charged. So either you want everybody to have health care or you don't. If you do, it can only be provided by government.
Claiming that understanding that basic reality is "socialism" is a joke, and is just cover for the parasites who want to cherry-pick the profitable parts of the market.
Posted in: U.S. House votes to repeal Obama's health care law
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GJDailleult
Double indeed. So where is "the climate is always changing, there have even been ice ages before, scientists in the 70's predicted global cooling, it is all caused by sun activity, I know the answer even though I don't understand the question" crowd on this thread then?
Anyways, even though they don't know it yet, they don't matter. There is a school of thought out there that once insurance companies decide that Global Warming is for real (man-made or not) then everything changes. And it sounds like they are getting close to making that decision. No insurance equals no business, and business better get ready to pay through the nose for what insurance there is.
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GJDailleult
Is that comment meant to be some kind of joke? Or is it just the view of another American cheering on the collapse of his country? Unions have been dead for decades, the government exists to serve the corporate welfare state, and the sheeple are lined up at the door and resent nothing. As long as they can shop at the hillbilly five and dime store, and eat their government subsidized corn "food", they will be happy.
As for this meeting between Obama and Hu, it is like two guys playing musical chairs and there is only one chair left. If they both go for it too hard it might fall apart and then there will be no chair, and they both know that. Both countries are getting into very dangerous territory, and their only solution is to keep kicking the can down the road. But you can only fight off the reality and the future for so long.
Posted in: Obama holding first White House dinner for China in 13 years
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GJDailleult
@moderator- I wasn't comparing the USA to other countries. I was saying that the murder rate in the USA is higher than can be explained by the rate of gun ownership. Either the increase in guns results in a greater than proportional increase in murder, or there is something else going on. That is not a pro-gun or anti-gun statement, just a statistical fact, which nobody ever tries to explain.
Posted in: Gun show opens in Vegas, amid gun control debate
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GJDailleult
Let's assume that she would have and wouldn't have gotten herself killed trying to kill him. Let's say also that a crime victim wanting a gun for protection is completely understandable, and that guns do in fact provide protection for the "law abiding citizen" against criminals.
If you listen to the usual pro-gun talk that "guns provide protection against crime", and that "criminals will always find a weapon", that difference should actually be less than the difference in gun ownership. So what accounts for the difference? Either there is something about gun ownership that is being ignored or there is something about Americans.
Not criticizing or saying I have the answer. Just that it is an interesting question.
Moderator: Please note that comparisons with other countries are not relevant to this discussion.
Posted in: Gun show opens in Vegas, amid gun control debate
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GJDailleult
Much easier to win and look good when the strikers put the ball in the net, instead of wide or in the seats, which is the usual Japan style. A good sign for the rest of the tournament, even if the Saudis didn't have anything to play for.
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