OT: Rating the President

[rextorres]

I agree with you a 100%! We should privitize everything.

[ January 28, 2003, 06:30: Message edited by: rextorres ]

[Fyron]

Originally posted by rextorres:
I agree with you a 100%! We should privitize everything.

Eh?

[orev_saara]

Huh... I finally looked at this thread to see if there was anything interesting. Looks like there was one interesting thing, now there's another. A bit of a whodunnit. I would like to reply to the most recent comment by Instar on the president's performance. You can stop wondering why the prez keeps proposing stuff that's bad for the economy. We've seen it all before as Reagonomics. The plan is, you cut taxes, especially to the wealthiest (funny coincidence there). Then you explode defense spending. At this point a strange phenomenon called "no money for domestic spending" occurs. This has the "unintended" consequence of crashing social programs like welfare, education, civil rights monitoring, environmental regulation, etc., etc., etc. And there you have it! Calling your opponents names makes it all go down easier.

Oh, yeah, about the distribution of wealth thingy, 70 percent controlling ten percent sounds bad, but when you look at global wealth distribution, it doesn't seem like any big deal. And that's just dollars. There's no way to measure political control, but from where I sit, I'd guess that the distribution of political influence in America is a lot worse than the 70% for 10% split in money. Kinda creepy.

[Fyron]

Anyone happen to have saved a Version of the thread before it was slashed? We could easily pick up from there.

[Askan Nightbringer]

Yeh! I was enjoying this one.
I do recall thinking about where I was gonna park my yacht but can't remember much after that.

But I can get back on the president track.
Now without much debate I'm sure we can all agree that America is
1. The strongest military power in the world
2. The strongest economic power in the world.

Most people would agree that America does claim to be
3. A democratic nation of sorts
4. Leaders of the Free World.

Most non-Americans would probabaly agree that (I'm getting to the point so hold on)
5. Their/our leaders seem to be doing alot of brown tonguing when George W. is in the room.

Now considering all those points doesn't it make sense that in the next presidential elections the entire world gets to vote (or at the least those who at least pretend to have a democratic system).
After all, the american president has huge influence in the world economy, world stability and who will be the bad guys in the next 20 hollywood blockbusters. That affects all of us, not just you guys with the funny spelling.

Askan

[tesco samoa]

Now with following the news this week.... What did they find....

Some major players have changed their tune over night on Iraq...

Time will tell I guess, but I am guessing it's not good.

Powell changing his tune was a shocker!!!

My guess is perhaps Feb 16th to 26th. As you don't wanna get involved in a ground war when the heat kicks in.

So far they have been right about everything.

When I first heard the Axis of Evil line I laughed on North Korea... But.....

Perhaps it is the deliverly of the message , or lack there of that bothers me.

P.S.
Now that I do not have to pay a dividend tax on my Us stocks...Like all of you I thought i would take that extra cash and buy a coffee...

[E. Albright]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Anyone happen to have saved a Version of the thread before it was slashed? We could easily pick up from there.

Well, the Last thing I remember posting (or seeing, 'cause I think it was posted during the Crunch) was a missive rife with atrocious wordplay based on Mutually Assured Destruction and Nuclear Use Theorists. All told, the death of that post might well be counted a blessing, given the popular opinion of plays on words...

I'm half-tempted to resume where I'd left off, but I'll be good. No gas on the fire.

E. Albright