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35-Year Senate Veteran From Delaware Brings Foreign Policy Experience To Ticket As Democrat's Choice For V.P.
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- Tucker, actually, we are borrowing money for ear marks and lots of stuff......
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- How are you going to create jobs with money saved from Iraq?
Posted by WellHell3 at 07:14 PM : Aug 23, 2008
We have a multitude of unmet needs in this country. Healthcare, investment in green technology, rebuilding and upkeep of hard infrastructure to name a few. - Reply to this comment
- How are you going to create jobs with money saved from Iraq?
And that is not a s/a question, I am intersted in your answer.
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Posted by WellHell3 at 07:14 PM : Aug 23, 2008
And I ask it, because it seems that any money saved from not having war in Iraq...should be going to pay off the debt we have already accrued against it. And I don''t consider it to be money we have to invest in something else. - Reply to this comment
- Jon, I would agree with you if the money was remaining in the US but it isn''t.
It is like a thermo problem where the energy leaves the box. If it leaves the box it is gone forever...... That will mean to us that we will have less wealth to build on in future years and America will have slower growth. Same thing happened to UK until they found oil. - Reply to this comment
- We don''''t really have a good definition of success, and if we did, there is no way to say it''''s a good thing from our point of view. Meanwhile, we are losing soldiers, we are degrading our military power, and we are spending $10/month on top of $700 billion already spent. That''''s money that can create jobs in the U.S. and keep the value of the dollar high.
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Posted by jon2012 at 07:06 PM : Aug 23, 2008
How are you going to create jobs with money saved from Iraq?
And that is not a s/a question, I am intersted in your answer. - Reply to this comment
- We spend $700B PER YEAR on imported oil. That money is GONE. It is four times the amount we are spending on the war.
That $700B is wealth lost forever and is a bigger harm to our future than the debt or the war.
Posted by donbl1 at 07:09 PM : Aug 23, 2008
The $700B does not include interest payments on it. The bill for imported oil is an economic cost with a tangible productive return as without it our economy will shut down. Iraq does not have a productive return now or in the forseeable future. - Reply to this comment
- It''s laughable how every Obama supporter in the country has become an instant expert on Joe Biden...give me a break, you guys just learned how to spell your names last week.
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- Tucker, Reagan Democrats ARE Democrats and vote in the Democratic Primary. They voted for Hillary mostly.
They are mainly Scots Irish and blue collar.
BTW, McCain is Scots Irish....... - Reply to this comment
- Tucker, I am thinking of the oil rich Middle East around Saudi.
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- Jon, you must be getting the T. Boone Pickens ads.....
We spend $700B PER YEAR on imported oil. That money is GONE. It is four times the amount we are spending on the war.
That $700B is wealth lost forever and is a bigger harm to our future than the debt or the war. - Reply to this comment
- We will just have to watch and not declare failure before time plays out.
Posted by donbl1 at 06:55 PM : Aug 23, 2008
We don''t really have a good definition of success, and if we did, there is no way to say it''s a good thing from our point of view. Meanwhile, we are losing soldiers, we are degrading our military power, and we are spending $10/month on top of $700 billion already spent. That''s money that can create jobs in the U.S. and keep the value of the dollar high. - Reply to this comment
- Just saw on MSNBC that the reason Biden was selected because he could draw working class Americans (i.e., Reagan Democrats).
The problem is that Biden got less than 1% of the primary vote and no delegates in three tries for President. He did not attract anyone! - Reply to this comment
- You wanna pay fer it? Then ya can tell me what to do with it.
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- You use yer stuff the way you see fit. And I''ll use mine.
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- I pay fer it, I''m use''n it.
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- jon, the problem with conservation is that every barrel we do not buy is bought by China or India as they are still growing rapidly.
Posted by donbl1 at 06:51 PM : Aug 23, 2008
If it is a problem, then it could be a lot worse. Not having to burn all that oil in the U.S. means a lot of dollars staying here. We are still the country that accounts for 25% of world oil consumption. Conservation must start somewhere. - Reply to this comment
- Refrigerators are damned strange..
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- Tucker, if Iraq remains a democracy, it will be the only one in that area......... and, it will have a large well equipped army when this is all over.
We will just have to watch and not declare failure before time plays out. - Reply to this comment
- And what about refrigerators? Somfin funny about refrigerators..
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- jon, the problem with conservation is that every barrel we do not buy is bought by China or India as they are still growing rapidly.
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