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globalwatcher,
If you want her exact quotes on the matter,
Bloomberg Business Week covered her whole speech in depth. Left out the fluff that A.P thought was important though.
‘I support what is being debated right now in Washington, D.C., with the FTA with South Korea because we are natural trading partners from automobiles to agricultural products.
‘‘What government can do is to open the gate and then get out of the way and let the people trade, let the markets dictate what should be traded and much of the terms, and I do look forward to seeing that outcome from the U.S. and Korea free- trade agreement.’’
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sailwind
You've got your facts wrong.
President Obama in November 2010
President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea failed to reach an agreement Thursday on a long-awaited free-trade agreement, saying they had decided instead to give their negotiators more time to work out differences, which revolved around Korean imports of American autos and beef.
Sarah Palin in today's keynote speech.
On issues in the Korean peninsula, Ms. Palin said there needs to be a regime change in North Korea given the brutal dictatorship in the country and separately called for a stronger partnership between the U.S. and South Korea, noting the latter country’s impressive development in the past 50 years and voicing her support for the South Korea-U.S. free-trade agreement.
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sailwind
Some of the things she said in her speech not used here in the article;
"Technology means individuals have been empowered in ways they have never been empowered before in our entire history," she told the World Knowledge Forum hosted by Maeil Business Newspaper.
"Technology has taken power away from central authorities and provided individuals with more choices. We are no longer living in a top-down world. Now we are living in a bottom-up world, from entertainment and information to education."
But governments seemed to be going in the opposite direction, with the European Union in Brussels "dictating terms for the member states across the continent", she said.
In China, "where there have been some movements towards reform, the Communist Party still dictates to the Chinese what they can and what they can't do in so many respects", she added.
Even in the United States, the political elite "believe we just can't get along without them", Palin charged.
"Government officials like to push this idea because it gives them the opportunity to pick the economic winners and losers in our system... in other words, it gives them ultimate economic power.
"I just call it crony capitalism."
Pretty astute I must say.
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Yabits,
Moody's downgrades a dozen UK banks .......... Yesterdays headline on JT for a little reference on London based advice.
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sailwind
Madverts,
In a Yank word......"Yup".
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sailwind
Madverts,
I do hope you get well. Honesty time. During our past discussions on Bush during the years I was still Active duty Military. I served twenty years, under both Republican and Democrat Commander and Chiefs. I took my oath to support the constitution and obey the orders of the Commander and Chief very seriously. I would not or could not in good conscience violate that oath and there were many times when I wish I could have posted more disparaging words about Bush during that time and I did not agree with a myriad of things he did during his terms, but service to ones country means just that.........Words sort of fail me right now, but understand this, I will have always tried to respect your posts and positions, and will always strive to in the future, I wil get rid of the template.
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Madverts,
I have been working a template to copy and paste prior to anything I post to sastify your continued demands that I hate Bush just as bad you do.
Here it is so far, " President Bush was bad President, now on to the topic at hand"...........
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Yabits,
After world war 2, Europe and Asia were ruins. The U.S was the only country whose industries were intact and could supply the insatiable demand Europe and Asia needed to rebuild after the war.Reality is we got lucky due to our geographic position and did not have our industrial base bombed into ruins by the Facist forces that held sway in the world then. Our prior economic policies during the war only shifted from war industry to a consumer based one based on rebuilding the free world after the war. Your position that our deficit spending created massive demand after the wer is flat out wrong. It was consumer demand and if not for that we would still be saddled with that long ago debt to this day.
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sailwind
Changing policy revolves around stopping the current policy in place. You have to have that basic step first until anything can change. President Obama has not changed his policies and in fact has now double downed on them and is racheting up the class warfare rhetoric. Also Madverts, if you are going to use a past quote from me to show my 'radical' views please use the entire quotation so others that read here can make their decisions if my saying that the U.S deserves to default if it can't its fiscal act together is not based on hard economic reality and not on Maynard Keynes economic fantasies. You will also notice in my quote I advocated we change course and fast.
sailwindJul. 29, 2011 - 08:34PM JST Did it occur to anyone that the U.S actually deserves to default and have her credit rating downgraded? Our spending is out of control and there is no fiscal sanity anywhere evident in Washington. Until we learn to live with in our means we do not deserve to be able to borrow as we please or be considered a good credit risk. We have not earned our good credit rating since Obama became President and until we change course and get our spending under control and grow our economy through the hard work of the private sector to put people back to work should we bitch that our country defaulted and was downgraded as a not so good credit risk.
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sailwind
No offense. Define and clarify your vision of better quality of "Thinking" and your plan to bring it to the masses.
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Taka
Got it, I need help, could you both tell the U.s Govt to fund a program to get me well again? I'm sure a few your tax dollars will not be missed for worthy cause.
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sailwind
Madverts,
The U.S invaded Iraq. Deal with the world as it is now. What more can I say.
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sailwind
Madverts,
Never said default on our debits, said if we could not pay them back we deserved the SP downgrade.
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sailwind
Madverts,
Bush invaded IraQ on a credit card, I know this when wil you get over it?
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Laguna,
Agreed, collapsed demand is what causes an economy or an entity to go through hard times. For instance take our Government, there is a huge demand for less of it right now but it demands more cash through tax hikes resulting in more hard times.
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sailwind
Actually I did, last paragragh was the most interesting. This is what these economic genuises were saying before Obama's Must Pass new stimulus, err I mean Jobs Bill was even on the table.
The economy will expand 2.2 percent next year, according to a separate Bloomberg survey of economists conducted Sept. 2 to Sept. 7. The same survey said the unemployment rate would average 8.8 percent in 2012.
I'm more inclined to believe double dip recession is the more likely outlook and unemployment stuck a 9.2 percent at a minimum until Govt finally gets it act together and the deficit spending under control.
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sailwind
Oh my goodness! What is this? Economists agree the jobs plan would not only be EFFECTIVE but is possibly the ONLY thing preventing another recession in 2012? This can't be! Who are these so-called "economists"? Well, they must be "elitists" with their "college education" and their "knowledge of how economies work"
Must be the same economists that said the first stimulus bill would keep the unemployment rate under 8 percent and create new jobs.
In the two years after the ‘stimulus’ spending bill was enacted, more than 1.3 million jobs have been lost and the unemployment rate has averaged 9.5 percent – despite projections by White House economists that the “stimulus” would keep unemployment below eight percent.
I think the "college elites" and their expert 'knowledge" should go back to school for a little refresher training on the subject given their stellar track record so far.
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sailwind
The books are given as gifts to donors that contribute 100 dollars or more to her PAC.
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Taka,
You forgot to mention that she is a lousy tipper also when the family goes out to dinner.
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Yabits,
Governor Palin never claimed she was a foreign policy expert. If she had ever proclaimed she was strong in foreign policy and then made a weak impression on her knowledge of the subject then the folks that derided her would actually have case. Her expertise actually was in energy policy a subject the Media did not really ask her about at all.
You quoted this,
In public, Palin looked like the game changer McCain had wanted, but in private,** the authors say she was struggling to learn too much too fast.**
I guess this would be considered a "bad thing" to a Liberal's view of her.........Studying and trying to learn as much as she could in a short time on a complex subject she really never had to use or really deal with in her life up to that point.
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