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Could Have Oil-Fed Budget Surplus Of $79 Billion, But They're Still Rebuilding With U.S. Dollars
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Posted by baldwin2008 at 12:16 PM
Bwaaaaaah! Seriously? Ahhh - you can thank your Republican president for the economy and all of his GOP/big oil cronies for our absurd energy policy. Cheney''s secret energy policy meetings ring a bell? I''m not sure if you''re aware but it''s all of Congress that is taking a vacation - not just the Dems. Furthermore, your GOP friends have fillibustered congress a record 47 times this session so they deserve some credit for ensuring that nothing gets done in Washington. LOL Wow - intellectual dishonesty at it''s worst. - Reply to this comment
- Jtdev1, do you watch See B.S.?
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- By the way baldwin, half those Senators that went on vacation were republicans, do you think they crapped on you too?
Posted by PVperson at 12:36 PM : Aug 07, 2008
So THAT''S why the FBI is in such a hurry to close the anthrax case. THEY WANT TO DO IT BEFORE CONGRESS COMES BACK FROM VACATION so they''ll forget all about it.
Gee, do you think Congress watches the news while they''re on vacation? Or do they just drink pina coladas and say "I''m OFF DUTY. It''s NOT MY JOB..."
No wonder they ALL have a LOWER APPROVAL RATING THAN BUSH. - Reply to this comment
- Actually, no PV, the republicans that did not stay in DC went HOME to their respective precincts to rally in their home-towns against the liberal stonewall.
And yes, that was in the last century when we bombed shinto-japan. Whats your point? Its called HISTORY - something you are SUPPOSED to learn from. - Reply to this comment
- "shino-japan rebuild"....what are you, some kind of idiot? Try and keep thing in this century, OK.
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- By the way baldwin, half those Senators that went on vacation were republicans, do you think they crapped on you too?
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- No PVPerson, I mean the absurd policies the democrats trumpet like... no drilling for our own, like no building of updated oil refineries, like no nuclear reactors. And as for my rose colored glasses... I guess we had those on to when we helped shino-japan rebuild. We should have never been so stupid as to think they''d be our ally and provide us with ultra-innovative technology far cheaper than other countries could get it for. Forget rose colored glasses! The democrats need to take their blinders off.
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- "You can''t go through life looking for a handout," according to James. So why are we paying for the rebuilding of Iraq? Well, the answer is simple, one that even James can understand, Bush has lined up exclusive oil rights for his Big OIl Goombas to expoit! That''s why we went there, that''s why were still there, and that''s why McBush wants to keep us there forever. I guess the Big Oil guys are allowed to "go through life looking for a handout." All I want is some of that Iraq Oil $$ given to the American families who have lost their loved ones in this "financial manuver" designed by the Bush Administration, at the expense of these families.
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- Why is the American public so apathetic and stupid? Posted by talkingham at 11:52 AM : Aug 07, 2008
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The SAME REASON we were apathetic and stupid after Chappaquiddick/Watergate.
We were so FED UP WITH THE LIES AND THE CORRUPTION, we realized OUR OPINION DOESN''T COUNT SO WHY BOTHER HAVING ONE.
Bill Clinton electrified the nation out of its apathy by POLARIZING AND DIVIDING THE NATION.
Now we''re seeing Hillary and Bush for what they are. We''re seeing the nation fall apart thanks to sixteen years of Clinton/Bush. Twenty years if you count Bush, Sr.
OUR OPINION DOESN''T COUNT ANYMORE. WHY BOTHER HAVING ONE. - Reply to this comment
- When this is all said and done America will be glad we were so patient and helpful to a country with much cheap oil to pay us back with.
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Posted by baldwin2008
You mean the same "Cheap Oil" that is being sold on the open market today???
You saying they will forgo selling their oil on the open market for sky high prices so they can sell it to us for cheap low profits???
GET REAL and take your rose colored glasses off. You and the rest of you dolts keep talking all this rosey stuff that never ever pans out. I bet you watch Fixed News too.... - Reply to this comment
- baldwin2008, "their absurd energy policies"
Don''t you mean the republicans absurd energy policies?
Like the one created by Cheney and his fellow oil executives? Like the policies controlled by the republican House and Senate for over 12 years. Imbecile. When will one of you dimwitted, dumb-butted neo-con jerks take responsibility for your OWN actions? Ever? - Reply to this comment
- Democrats - going on vacation while the most of us cant afford to so they don''t have to answer for their absurd energy policies. Corrupt to the core.
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- Our efforts in Iraq are paying off. Why would a country devote a lot of money to rebuilding efforts and the such when bombs are dropping? The Iraqi govt is beginning to set up nicely so of course the leftist nay-sayers try to slant an Iraqi surplus as a negative thing. When this is all said and done America will be glad we were so patient and helpful to a country with much cheap oil to pay us back with.
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- Republicans - corrupt to the core.
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- Maybe learning that we''''re sending foreign aid to a country that''''s SWIMMING IN MONEY will wake up more Americans to what we already know.
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Posted by txgrouch2006
Now that will be the day....
It will take more than that to wake america up. We are the stupidest bunch of people on the planet.
65% of americans can''t even tell you anything about current affairs. They''re so wrapped up with their own little life, they don''t have time for anything else.
The most self-centered people in the world are americans and unless our current affairs in government totally intrude on everyone''s individual life, nothing will change. - Reply to this comment
- I think the Bush Administration are traitors to the country. The whole bunch of them should be exiled from the USA. What they do is an "IN YOUR FACE" attitude. It is flat out criminal/Mafia behavior.
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- Why is the American public so apathetic and stupid? Just think of the trillions of dollars and hundreds of millions of gallons fuel we have WASTED in Iraq so they can make billions of dollars off of us.
Not mention the thousands of killed and maimed we have suffered as well as inflicted for no other reason than to feed the Bush ego and to drive the price of oil up for neocons everywhere so they can laugh all the way to the bank.
We are truly the most corrupt nation on the planet in that we feed the corruption of so many other "nations."
A few well placed cruise missiles and we could have taken out Saddam, but no, we have to waste trillions of dollars to feed the Bush legacy of death and failure. - Reply to this comment
- Next year, there will be blood in the streets. The pent-up rage in this country is incredible.
We are already sitting on a powder keg from race tensions, economic disaster under a president who couldn''t care less and a Congress that can do nothing. Banks failing, inflation rising, interest rates soon to follow. Jobs disappearing, dollar value dropping, while the rich order a new yacht.
Now the latest news - a poor, tormented man called the LONE KILLER in the anthrax attack based on WHAT ENVELOPES were used, and WE ARE BANKRUPTING OUR NATION TO BENEFIT A COUNTRY THAT CAN''T SPEND ITS BILLIONS FAST ENOUGH.
This country will EXPLODE next year. If not sooner. - Reply to this comment
- We just can''''t stop all funding of this war. What kind of irresponsible response is that? so we leave our Sons and Daughter out there with no bullets and other supplies to give them a chance to make it back home. I guess you have no children to understand that a parent wants them back home.
Posted by josebcruz at 10:40 AM : Aug 07, 2008
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josebcruz;
Do you really think Bush would have left the troops in Iraq with no bullets and other supplies, as you indicate?
Even if he were stupid enough, or vengeful enough to do that, he would have been removed from office faster than any normal impeachment process could have accomplished, and the military would have been right there with the rest of America in removing him. - Reply to this comment
- The neo-con right, and the neo- left are stealing America and its citizens blind, but very few of you even let out a whimper. These are sad days in the history of America.
Posted by renrivers at 09:48 AM : Aug 07, 2008
EXCELLENT POST! This is what I''ve been saying for a long time now.
Maybe learning that we''re sending foreign aid to a country that''s SWIMMING IN MONEY will wake up more Americans to what we already know. - Reply to this comment
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