OT: Our Economy (US)

Baron Munchausen · #1 April 7th, 2002, 09:25 PM

Kinboat: Your whole spiel is summed up in a single sentence.

There's only one party, the incumbent party!

Versatile · #2 April 7th, 2002, 11:36 PM

I agree with Kinboat. Both sides are in the same bag and don't forget if it is necessary for them to kill us... they will !!! We do the same in SE IV... but it is a game not life.

Mysterial · #3 April 7th, 2002, 11:53 PM

George Washington warned, in his farewell address, not to have political parties. A pity we didn't listen.

Arak Koba · #4 April 8th, 2002, 03:44 AM

Ultimately, I blame the whole "rich get richer, poor get poorer" effect for our current economy; when all is said and done, there will be 10 rich people in the world that give hand-me-outs to the other 6 billion.

Ok, a little stretched there.

But all the same, "A house divided against itself can not stand", and the U.S. is definately a house divided politically. Less government and tax is good, but corporate despots aren't, and in a free-market, the corporate big-wigs end up replacing the government ones.

Kinboat · #5 April 8th, 2002, 04:03 AM

Yes it is a pity we didn't listen to some of our earlier leaders... One thing I forgot in my ramblings was this... The plight of the Afghani people wasn't on anyone's mind until it became politically beneficial to point it out (the terrorists we wanted were hiding in their country)... If we really cared about human rights violations there we would have done something many years ago. And yes a lot of my longer speils can be summed up in one sentence, that's an excellent one Baron Munchausen.

Damn didn't realize I started sounding so preachy there... That happens a lot with me. Sorry for the OT... There's probably a better place for this stuff.

[ 08 April 2002: Message edited by: Kinboat ]

geoschmo · #6 April 8th, 2002, 04:22 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Kinboat:
The plight of the Afghani people wasn't on anyone's mind until it became politically beneficial to point it out (the terrorists we wanted were hiding in their country)... If we really cared about human rights violations there we would have done something many years ago.

This isn't really an acurate statement. The deplorable conditions the Afgans lived under was well known by anyone who cared to get deeper into it than the nightly news. There have been many articles in magazines and newspapers over the Last few years talking about everything from the lack of basic human right for women to the destruction of priceless archeological atifacts that didn't fit into the Taleban's narrow world view.

The question is what could we as a country have done? Even after the blatent attacks on US soil on 9/11 there were many loud voices in other countries that were arguing we had no right to topple the "legitamate goverment" in Afganistan.

Imagine the screams of protest had we taken a more active role prior to those events.

Geoschmo

[ 08 April 2002: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Mudshark · #7 April 8th, 2002, 05:04 AM

The sad state of affairs is that the USA is tryintg to be the policeman of the world, we are very concernd with building colitions, why? We are the remaning super-power. If we pulled out of the past hotspots, ie. Japan, South korea, and Germany. Beyond a bit of oil, why should we care. We have more reserves than the middleast. I am one for closing the borders and letting the rest fight it out, Beyond the Americas,Europe, and the Pacific rim. there would be no technology!