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Originally Posted by rimmerama
Sure, but if I want a higher standard of living, we need to lower it from 40%.
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Not gonna happen. Can't have it both ways. When Bush said it was about defending your "way of life" he meant that literally, as in your standard of living.
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Originally Posted by thePR
Nice fail post. You stuffed more lies and make believe in here than I thought was possible.
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And your evidence is what?
You've never even seen a nuclear weapon. You wouldn't even know what one looked like, much less how much it costs to maintain, store, secure or transport, or dismantle (and the pits are stored but you probably don't get it).
Like you even understand what NVCD is.
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Originally Posted by sammbriggs
i don't want to maintain a std of living by stealing it from someone else.
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But that is exactly what you have been doing for the last 100+ years.
US oil companies were getting 92% of the oil profits from Mexico. They were supposed to give Mexico 8%, but they devalued their assets to avoid paying it, plus reduce their corporate tax liability, and they didn't even pay corporate taxes.
When the Mexican Supreme Court orders the US oil companies to pay the back taxes owed, they refuse. Why would they do that? Because the US has a very long history of murdering heads-of-State that attempt to tax US corporation, or overthrowing the government.
Except WW II was coming. President Cardenas seized all US oil assets in 1939. That's why Mexico's oil is nationalized. Cardenas offered the US $24 Million in compensation -- the exact book value as stated by the US oil companies, but the US considered that an insult and wouldn't accept it at first (but ultimately they did).
Wash, Rinse and Repeat for 40+ other countries...same story.
President Schemarke of Somalia was willing to sign an oil deal for 50-50. You wanted 92-8 (the standard bill of fare). So you murdered him in cold blood. Shot him down like a dog. Then you installed Mohammed Barre as puppet dictator and what did he do? He swindled your oil companies. That was a conglomerate of Texaco, Conoco, Standard Oil (of Ohio not New Jersey) and Philips (if I remember right). Then Barre gets bounced, and Mohammed Adid takes over. You send in the Rangers and Special Ops to handle a job for the big boys, and they get trounced, so you leave with your tail tucked between your legs. And the country is still a mess.
Obama just overthrew the Honduran government 2 years ago. And for what? Attempting to tax US companies and institute land reforms. That was the 14th time in 103 years you've overthrown an Honduran government. You've been in Honduras for 150 years and is the country any better off before you arrived? No. There's still areas that don't have water, sewage, roads or electricity. How sad is that?
On the HDI, Vietnam is 116 and Honduras 121. How sad is that? Vietnam had the crap bombed out of it for 15 years until 1975, and then the US levied trade sanctions and embargoes against Vietnam for 20 years and in spite of all that, Vietnam manages to catch and surpass Honduras in standard of living and quality of life. Again, is that just the saddest thing you ever heard?
After 150 years of US involvement, Honduras should be in the 50s on the HDI with Cuba.
Castro is another. You export all the wealth and profits from Cuba, and then when Castro tries to tax US corporations, he's a "commie" and you waste $Billions trying to murder him or overthrow his government.
Same story with Iraq. You murdered Faisal for the oil profits, then you murdered Qasim (who replaced him) because he was too damn stupid to figure out why you murdered Faisal, and then the Baathist Party comes to power and then Saddam Hussein does.
Same story in Iran. You tried to murder Prime Minister Massadeq three times and failed. So you tried him in a kangaroo court for "treason." How about that. Massadeq is a "traitor" because he tries to stop the US and UK from stealing all the resources, wealth and profits from Iran.
Same story in Argentina. You murdered Allende because he told US corporations to pay their taxes or have their assets seized.
That's one of the reasons you're in the economic morass that you're in.
You've reached a tipping point. You can't steal from anyone any more because BRIC is stomping you into the ground developing countries.
And it isn't that BRIC is developing countries, it's that BRIC shares profits fairly 60-40 or 50-50, plus re-invests $Millions into those countries to build roads, provide water, sewage and electricity.
And that is what is creating the emerging markets that are causing your jobs to disappear.
And I won't even get into currency.
The US Dollar was
the international reserve currency and
the international currency of trade.
Not any more. You have competition from the Euro, Ruble and others.
Just wait about 30 years. When Middle East oil production (sold in US Dollars) declines from 65 Million barrels per day to 42 Million barrels and Central Asian oil production (sold in Euros and Rubles) increases to 42 Million barrels per day, you will be in a world of hurt.
You'll be begging for 9% unemployment, because that will be a lot better than 15%-20%.
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