Duedel: i really dont have a problem if all the money / orders goes to allies i.e. back to the tax payers resp
Do you abide by the same rules in your personal spending? No clothes from China, no computer chips from Taiwan? Or is it that you do not mind my money going back to allies? What tax bracket are you in? Are you seriously hit by AMT and speaking truthfully or just exercising your democratic prerogative to spend other people's money?
Duedel: The silly thing about it is the explanatory statement of Wolfowitz. He really is a moron.
No. He is not a moron by far. Wolfowitz is a good student of Leo Strauss and Adolf Hitler where public speec-making is concerned. His speeches sound moronic to you because they are targeted towards general american audience, not literate fellows like you and me. You are just not educated enough to understand that, even though you are smart and educated enough to see the flaws in his speech.
Read Hitler, read some stuff on/about Leo Strauss, read on the neocons, it will be much cleared to you.
vorticon: i could have sworn that cashing in was one of the main principals of the free market ideal that america is using right now...
Free market is economic concept that cannot include coercion. Whe are talking about politics here which is all about coersion. nothing that any government does can be about free market - by definition. Free market exists only where government stays out of it.
Yeager: France and Germany behaved and continue to behave as antagonists to american interests in Iraq, to allow them to bid, assuming they would bid lower, does nothing to improve your interests as an american, let alone as a taxpayer.
??? We need some job done quickly and well. If a private german company can do it better and allow us to pull our troops from danger sooner, how does it hurt me?
Does the same logic apply to buying imported goods from the same german company?
But I doubt Miko is a citizen, and since NOTHING about our country seems to meet his approval
I am a citizen and plenty about this country meets my approval - free market, constitutional liberties, entrepreneural spirit, federalist principle of local governance, separation of government powers, religious but tolerant culture, self-determination, risk-taking and personal responcibility.
Unfortunately every single one of those foundations of american life is being destroyed by your beloved republicrat governments. What do you suggest I should love that the government promotes? Social engineering? Racist policies? Egalitarianism? Corporate welfare? Income redistribution? Corruption of marriage and family? Subcidised breeding of the underclass? Support for tyranical foreign governments?
Dago: He's happy, and we are happy to have him gone.
You will just have to tax Fd Ski that much more.
Dago: Miko, since I do not remember even once you saying anything positive about the USA, about life here or our government, why don't you move out?
About USA - selective memory. I say a lot of positive about it. the most positive thing I can say about USA is that I want to preserve it like it is against USA-haters like you and the rest of republicrats that are destroying it.
I dislike any government that is growing tyrannical.
I could keep posting from other countries, so how would that solve your problem of reading my posts any better than ignore list could?
Why do you arrogantly assume I came to join your political clique and downspiraling socialist culture? Why not assume that I intend to stay here and survive/prosper while your corrupt and decaying way of life desintegrates?
The american settlers did not like the native american lifestyle and culture. So what? the natives disappeared due to suceptibility to imported deseases, alcoholism, love of cheap trinkets and general unsuitabulity of their culture to the changed conditions - and the entrepreneural newcomers are now "americans".
It's not me who should leave. It's your ilk who will leave one way or another so that people like me will have another shot at building a free society on the ruins.
miko
