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Re: Rückkehr der Raumnazin
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Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:48:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:

   So, you are saying that our current government has brought devastation to our country and the world, is that correct?

Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes! Mostly economic and social destuction, but in Iraq physical destruction as well! Recently South Korean farmers publicly commited suicide as an act of protest against flooding their countries markets with cheap American produce, which would destroy their livelihood and way of life. We have already badly damaged Latim American economies with unfair trade arrangements. We are unpopular in the world due to our destructive political end economic practices, not because they are envious of the MTV.The world is in the process of constructing an economic trade system that is independant of the American one, with the strenthening Euro likely to replace the Dollar as the standard measurement of trade. China’s economy is growing at an unheard of rate of 10% a year, and has been for the last 25. They are making energy deals with Venezuala, Russia, and the Mideast markets which make the U.S. government very nervous. This whole mess we’ve made in Iraq in the name of 911 and security has to do with grabbing as much of a dwindling oil supply as we can, while in the process showing the world that we are the sole surviving superpower with a badass military, and we’re not afraid to use it! If your not convinced that oil was the reason, then why is the U.S. recieving 70% of the oil produced in Iraq, the world’s fifth largest proven reserve, when pre-war we we’re revieving 0%? and the cost of gasoline has increased 900% for Iraqi citizens, and they have to import it?

The concequences of our actions haven’t quite made it stateside yet, but the story isn’t over yet either.

In case you think I’m just a Bush basher, I don’t particularly discern much between the parties- they essentially have the same goal, just slightly different ways to approach them. Both are beholden to corporate interests at the expence of the citizen .

Thank God 2005 is over!

Lets hope the world fairs a little better in 2006.

-Mike



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  Re: Rückkehr der Raumnazin
 
(...) Economic destruction? All I've seen is 2 of the most horrific economic disasters strike during Bush's tenure (9-11 and Katrina, neither of which can be attributed to the Bush Administration), and yet our economy still grows. To what economic (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: Rückkehr der Raumnazin
 
(...) So, you are saying that our current government has brought devastation to our country and the world, is that correct? (...) That well may be true, but it is not necessarily my objective to move you on any particular position, but at least to (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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