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Of course there is a bias against the Republicans lately. They have declared an unwinnable, stupid, expensive and useless war and have tried to win with no plan for victory whatever. Anyone who did not criticize the insanity of the war or the incompetence of its implementation would be a truly bad reporter of the news.

Is Jack Abramoff a force for good? 

Is soliciting pages a positive news story? Was Abu Graib somehow a great accomplishment for Juniorbush?

Is waterboarding a positive thing?

Are the huge thefts of US taxpayers' money sent to Iraq somehow good news?

Please. The media has reported the dumbass things done by a dumbass administration because of the stupidity, incompetence, immorality and incompetence of the perps. The perps are Republicans. They have it coming, not because they are Republicans, but blundering, corrupt, perverted numbskulls.

What's your idea of an unbiased media? One where the mirror tells the witchy stepmother that she is the fairest of them all even though it knows Snow White is the One True Babe?

"Investing in retailing Chinese products also does not serve to make the economy grow."



What?

Should I sell my retail stocks because they are not really part of the US economy?

Do yuou just hate furreners or what?
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I did not say that retail was not part of the US economy. I said that investing in Wal*Mart or some other retail purveyor of Chinese or other imported goods will not cause the economy of the US to grow.

If Wal*Mart were selling US-made products, then US workers would get paid for making these goods and if more of such goods were sold, the US company would nuild a bigger factory and more US jobs would be created. There is a multiplier effect at work here.

If, on the other hand, the goods sold are made in China, the multiplier benefits the CHINESE economy and not the US economy.

I am not against foreigners. I am merely stating that for the supposedly miracle-working US tax cuts to benefit the US economy, it is far better if the money spent goes to US workers.

If the government spends the money, it also has a multipler efect in the US. If the US government uses the money to pay the salary of someone to repair, test or schlep weapons about the Warner-Robbins AF Base, then you will spend your money mostly in the US and the US economy will benefit more than after the tax cut, when you are fired in a cost-cutting move and the tax savings go to say, Richard Mellon Scaife, who then invests in say, a factory in China.

For the US economy to benefit from the tax cut, the money must create more jobs than it loses as a result in cuts in government programs. You are more a part of the US economy that a guy who makes schlock in China to be sold in Wal*Mart. If the tax money is paid to you, then the US economy will benefit more than if it is sent to China to buy scholck. Even well-made schlock.

This is pretty complicated, and I doubt that RR or Rush or even O'Reilly actually has the statistics to prove that Juniortbush's tax cuts actually caused the current rise in the Stock Market.

And again, a rise in the stock market does not benefit even most Americans, though I have done pretty okay as a result.

 

It was not necessary for Rome to destroy Carthage.

Comparisons of the US with the Roman Empire are absurd. The Romans were larcenous brigands and plunderers who felt that the future could be deduced by looking at chcken guts. We no longer live in this age, and the comparison is worthless.

The Roman Republic was run by a limited number of men of the aristocracy in its most democratic form. Iran today is must more democratic than this, and Juniorbush wants to destroy its government.

 

There are two dangers with enlisting in the military.

You could get killed. about 3,000 so far in Iraq, plus more in Afghanistan
You could be seriously wounded, perhaps for life. At least 22,000 so far.
More dangerous than being a cropduster or a roofer.

Of course, if you are seriously wounded, you might end up getting paid for the rest of your (probably short) life, plus a snazzy prosthetic limb or two. Or three. Maybe four.

What rationalizations?

Are you aware that you have yet to convince a single soul that Juniorbush and Cheney did not lie?

It does not require any sort of argument to know that people died as a result of this useless war. About 3,000 dead and over 20,000 wounded and counting.

I was merely stating my speculation that Junioorbush abd Cheney, who DESERVE major prison time, will not have to do any, because returning the nation to the pre-W state is far more important to everyone.

It is beyond obvious that Juniorbush and Cheney both lied like orange shag throw rugs to get the US into this useless and unwinnable war. Both of them deserve impeachment, conviction, removal from office and major prison time for all the evil crap they did as well as  their gross incompetence.

But they will probably get away with their crimes, simply because what the country needs is an end to this foolish war and a return to decent democratic government.
                 

Rangel was simply stating a well-known truth: New Yorkers pay out MORE in taxes on a percapita basis than people in many other states, among them, Mississippi. New Yorkers get back LESS in federal expenditures on a percapita basis than people in Mississippi.

Most of the people in this country do not wish to live in Mississippi, including many Mississippians.

This had absolutely NOTHING to do with Katrina.