Yes, we should be ashamed. We should be ashamed that the US government is borrowing obscene amounts of money from Europe and Asia that it can't possibly pay back and handing it out to every needy country in the world. This is stealing.
To be fair about my indifference, I didn't really care about the oil spill and I'll go so far as to say even Katrina didn't stir me.
i take it then, that you don't live in New Orleans?DesertFox- wrote:
To be fair about my indifference, I didn't really care about the oil spill and I'll go so far as to say even Katrina didn't stir me.
desertfox you're unamerican.
Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.
TBH, this doesn't surprise me. It's election season in the US and there's so much political blood in the water right now that the mainstream media isn't going to report on much else. It's sad that they aren't showing more about this, but not surprising with the current political climate.CapnNismo wrote:
As have I. The BBC has done a very good job covering it. The Europeans have done a much better job but talking to my friends in the US they say they see little blurbs about it here and there but nothing like what happened with Haiti (as the most recent example).jord wrote:
Perhaps the broadcasters ought to be a tad ashamed but I've seen it covered on the bbc numerous times the last few days.CapnNismo wrote:
You're right, I didn't do a very good job on the title. I'm going to drop the second half of it and leave it at that on my blog.
Don't you think it's time we start to deal with issues at home and quit being the worlds police and rescue team. There are plenty of other countries that can certainly help out with this. We have enough to deal with between the Gulf Oil spill, the war, economic instability and a host of other issues. I'm tired of seeing us borrow money from China and then send borrowed money to help out other countries. Let them borrow frmo China just like us. Why should we run up our tab and become more in debt for these third world shit holes.
You're right. The US needs to drastically cut down on its military spending.cdailey2142 wrote:
Don't you think it's time we start to deal with issues at home and quit being the worlds police and rescue team. There are plenty of other countries that can certainly help out with this. We have enough to deal with between the Gulf Oil spill, the war, economic instability and a host of other issues. I'm tired of seeing us borrow money from China and then send borrowed money to help out other countries. Let them borrow frmo China just like us. Why should we run up our tab and become more in debt for these third world shit holes.
It does, and it needs to stop sending billions of dollars overseas in aid as well.CapnNismo wrote:
You're right. The US needs to drastically cut down on its military spending.cdailey2142 wrote:
Don't you think it's time we start to deal with issues at home and quit being the worlds police and rescue team. There are plenty of other countries that can certainly help out with this. We have enough to deal with between the Gulf Oil spill, the war, economic instability and a host of other issues. I'm tired of seeing us borrow money from China and then send borrowed money to help out other countries. Let them borrow frmo China just like us. Why should we run up our tab and become more in debt for these third world shit holes.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Haiti was different because it was closer and every fuck head celebrity itiching for publicity could easily race to Haiti and pick up a starving child and pose for the comera.
So does the uk, but what politician is going to have removing aid as a policy?JohnG@lt wrote:
It does, and it needs to stop sending billions of dollars overseas in aid as well.CapnNismo wrote:
You're right. The US needs to drastically cut down on its military spending.cdailey2142 wrote:
Don't you think it's time we start to deal with issues at home and quit being the worlds police and rescue team. There are plenty of other countries that can certainly help out with this. We have enough to deal with between the Gulf Oil spill, the war, economic instability and a host of other issues. I'm tired of seeing us borrow money from China and then send borrowed money to help out other countries. Let them borrow frmo China just like us. Why should we run up our tab and become more in debt for these third world shit holes.
there is nothing the Islamic terrorists would like better than to cut military spending. Their is nothing the liberals, China, North korea, Iran, etc would like better either.jord wrote:
So does the uk, but what politician is going to have removing aid as a policy?JohnG@lt wrote:
It does, and it needs to stop sending billions of dollars overseas in aid as well.CapnNismo wrote:
You're right. The US needs to drastically cut down on its military spending.
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None. It's one thing to run a telethon or whatever to raise money privately and then send that overseas. That's noble. It's an entirely different thing to take tax dollars and send them overseas. Taxes are supposed to be levied in order to further whatever common ends we possess as a nation. They're not supposed to be used overseas so that a handful of bleeding hearts at home can feel good about themselves at the expense of the rest of usjord wrote:
So does the uk, but what politician is going to have removing aid as a policy?JohnG@lt wrote:
It does, and it needs to stop sending billions of dollars overseas in aid as well.CapnNismo wrote:
You're right. The US needs to drastically cut down on its military spending.
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"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat