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TheQuestion
Following that logic I should be able to tell my boss "I will finish the report by tomorrow, but I have to talk to my secretary first." I'm sure that would go over well.
Posted in: Obama weighing 23-month Iraq withdrawal option
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I wonder how long it will take to pay off the bill for this? I bet an economist could figure it out, oh wait, I am so lets crunch the numbers shall we? The average working adult makes $50000 a year, the workforce is 154.5 million but after factoring in unemployment of 7.6% that leaves us with 142.9 million. So after taxes it would take the entier working population about 8 months donating every single cent to pay it off, or in laymans terms its going to take decades. Keeping in mind that just to pay of this one particular bill and not counting the ones that came before it or the ones that are going to come in on its coat tails. Because mark my words this will not be the last and it probably won't be the largest.
Posted in: Senators reach deal to cut Obama's economic stimulus bill to $780 billion
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I called that one. Maybe someday in the distant future I'll be happily proven wrong, but thus are the fanciful dreams of men and mice.
Posted in: U.N. halts aid to Gaza, citing Hamas disruption
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yabits: The simulus bill itself essentially strips the businesses it helps of any sembelance of self control. The auto companies will have Auto Czars, the banks will have Financial Czars, thats called nationalization. And now that they are under the control of the government you know for a fact they won't be allowed to fail, like when Amtrac was requed, do you have any idea how many other smaller privetly owned passenger train companies it had to crush to ensure Amtrac's stability? The same thing is going to happen in the financial and auto industry.
Posted in: Senate struggles on Obama's economic stimulus bill
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I agree with Sarge. If a business is mishandled it will die, whether slowly or quickly but it will die, and when that happens sombody smarter, better, and more profitable will take its place. Thats how a free market works, it doesn't promise success only the right to compete. What is happening now is flipping that logic upside down claiming that if a business is mishandled it can go to the goverments waiting arms with sweet promises of doing better next time. What this results in is the retardation of prosperous business and the stagnation of the market. If you let one of these finaincial giants fall flat on its face a thousand other firms will pick its body apart and thrive, but as it stands we are stuck with a half-dead company thats essentially being forced to live on even though its usefullness to the market has expired. It simply not good business.
Posted in: Senate struggles on Obama's economic stimulus bill
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Yeah, nice job brining up something that is totally irrelevant to the topic.
Have you read the UNFPA? It has whole sections dedicated to china and large industrialized countries with large populations including China, India, and South Korea all of which have strong economies and should be able to take care of their own toddler troubles.
Posted in: Obama reverses Bush's abortion-funds policy
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The BBC is justified in its attemtps to remain impartial and its actions should be commended. I have never seen a commercial on BBC for any side of an ongoing or recent conflict and it does my heart good to know that it will remain as such.
The news exists to inform, not to sway opinion one way or another. That is the main reason I can't stand CNN and Fox for their unsubtle bias to one side or another. BBC is one of the few great news companies with a shred of objectivity left.
Posted in: BBC slammed for refusing to air Gaza appeal
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TheQuestion
Hm...after all these articals, all this debate, I still wonder why people take sides on this. On one hand you have Palestine lead by Hamas, on the other side you have Israel. Hamas doesn't like Israel and it kills Israeliis, Isreal doesn't like Hamas so it kills Palestinians. We need to stop looking at this in terms of religion, land, and politics for a moment and see this for what it truely is, two groups that want each other dead nothing more, nothing less.
There is no moral highground here, no good side, or bad side for that matter. Its about who folds first and at what cost. If I were a betting man my money would be on Isreal; better armed, better trained, and better organized.
Posted in: Hamas says it's back in control of the Gaza Strip
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I'm going to ignore the issue most of you are talking about and ask the following: Where in deaths name is all this money comming from? It cant be from taxes, because U.S taxes haven't been able to cover social policies since the mid 90's. The only logical conclusion is that the U.S is borrowing money from other countries so that it can participate in the U.N abortion tea party. To be perfectly honest it makes no sense.
Its like a guy thats up to his eyeballs in debt buying a tuxedo so that he can go to his neighbors (who are also in paralyzing debt) party. Only the guy is the U.S, the tuxedo is world abortion (mostly in china), and his neighbors are the other flat broke countries around the world.
However, if you would like to skip the entire artical and every other word up to this point I can summerize.
The U.S is borrowing money (most likely from china) to pay for abortions and condoms in other countries (probably china) so that it can look nice and make people in favor of abortion happy (especially the people in China). And the score is: Western World 3, China 17, Third World Countries -5, TheQuestion 6. Stay tuned for the third quarter after this commecial break brought to you by Hasbro™.
Posted in: Obama reverses Bush's abortion-funds policy
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So what exactly are they going to do with the Gitmo prisoners? No state wants to take them and releasing them would be a PR catastrophy. If you put them in maximum security prison you run the risk of them being killed by other inmates, same goes for federal prison. So where do you put them?
Posted in: Obama tackles recession, war and ethics on day one
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Communism makes the grand assumtion that the goverment knows what is best for the people. But to do that government would have to be nearly infallible and in responce to that let me offer a quote "There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government." - Voltaire
Posted in: Red star rising: With global capitalism on ropes, communism gains in Japan
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Faderkinta, I believe that was perhapse the most insightful comment about this international debacle I've yet seen on any of the Gaza threads. We can't hope to pass judgement on a conflict that we actually know nothing about aside from the obvious fact that there is quite a bit of shooting being done. What we can do is speculate the statistical outcome based on the gains and losses of each side and Hamas clearly has far more to lose than Israel in this fruitless engagement. In a sensible and rational world Hamas as a political entity would broker a swift peace deal for the sake of the people that elected them to power and learn to play nice with the other semites in the region. But then if this were a sensible and rational world it would be terribly boring wouldn't it?
Posted in: Israel declares unilateral Gaza cease-fire
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As far as I know the Israelii Artillery corps has only two or three types of howitzers which are quite up to date and accurate. And the primary shell for said artillery pieces is a 155mm round thatweighs 43.2 kg, is 800 mm long, 15.8% of that weight is the actuall explosives consisting of stabilized nitroglycerine or TNT.
While on the other hand Hamas has displayed incredible skill in the creation and deployment of white phosphorous explosives whose main uses are as a smoke screen...and as improvized napalm.
My question this round is this; how does a device that uses concussive force alone start a large scale fire in an emergency shelter designed to handle such threats?
Posted in: Israel kills senior Hamas leader as strikes set Gaza ablaze
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Presumptuous are we not Thenewfront? More goes into this than you can see.
This is what I see happening. Hamas, the illegitemite spawn of the Muslim Brotherhood, inserts itself into the Gaza strip.
For most of its existance it enguages in suicide bombings in executions eventually culminating in the Passover Massacre in which 30 people were killed and 140 were wounded.
In 2006 it wrests control of Palestine from the Fatah.
It begins to loose control of its crumbling infrastructure and now, its greatest enemy conveniently attacks eventually reafirming its anti-isrealii sentiments.
A cleaver plan no?
Posted in: Peace efforts intensify as Gaza death toll tops 1,000
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Why are the atheists so interested in this? So long as the oath is preformed and Obama bound to uphold his position can we agree that the wording of such an oath is irrelevant?
Posted in: Atheists sue to stop use of 'so help me God' in inaugural oath
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There is something that has been overlooked. Something I find quite interesting.
During the fighting Hama's chief rival Fatah has been surprisingly quiet even as reports come in of Fatah suporters being shot and killed within Gaza, not by Isrealii fire but by Hamas supporters. Curious.
Posted in: Peace efforts intensify as Gaza death toll tops 1,000