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TheeHazelnut (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 01:30 AM Original message |
Obama Middle East Speech: President Will Announce Billions In Economic Aid to Egypt, Tunisia |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
1. Maybe we need to move funds from Pakistan. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. Shouldn't the priority be American schools, infrastructure, |
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DesertFlower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 01:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. i agree. nt |
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The Northerner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 02:40 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. +100 |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 05:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. I have to agree giving away $$ after the last maladministrations |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 06:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Thank you |
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bluethruandthru (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 06:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
17. +1000000000 n/t |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. We don't have the money |
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Stuttgart77 (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 06:31 PM Response to Reply #21 |
48. That doesn't matter. Obama will not be stopped. |
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avebury (455 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
28. 100% in agreement |
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TheEuclideanOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
31. Obama has the most pathetic sense of political timing I have ever seen. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 09:08 AM Response to Reply #2 |
42. +1, We should be CUTTING foreign aid. |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 02:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. I never ceased to be amazed how they can pull money out of |
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stockholmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:44 AM Response to Reply #4 |
27. it's not pulled out of a hat, its printed out of thin air,& that debt WILL be on YOUR collective ass |
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neoralme (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
32. It is disgusting. We will steal money from aged and disabled |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 03:47 AM Response to Original message |
6. Medicare? Fuel subsidies? Chair Simpson's Meow Commission? On whose backs do we give foreign aid? |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 05:14 AM Response to Original message |
7. i read the same sentiments over on the other side... |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 05:35 AM Response to Original message |
8. Just what they don't need. |
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leftyladyfrommo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 05:55 AM Response to Original message |
9. Hey, what about me? |
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IamK (514 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 05:56 AM Response to Original message |
10. their new leaders need to fill up their offshore bank accounts... n/t |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 05:57 AM Response to Original message |
11. These are insignificant amounts of money... |
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stockholmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:37 AM Response to Reply #11 |
25. not to mention the $1.2 trillion in total war machine spending & $400+ billion in total debt service |
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Hotler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:03 AM Response to Reply #11 |
30. Because it is insignificant it is ok to keep handing it out? |
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TheEuclideanOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:30 AM Response to Reply #30 |
39. I think that your question answers itself. |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 09:24 AM Response to Reply #11 |
43. Europe, Canada, Australia all give much more per capita, but they know how |
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Stuttgart77 (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:02 AM Response to Reply #11 |
52. Then YOU give them YOUR money. |
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Ghost of Tom Joad (651 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
13. rob the pensions of Americans to give billions overseas and then complain we are broke! |
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MissDeeds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 06:21 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. +1000 |
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florida08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 06:32 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. exactly what I was thinking |
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dotymed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 06:38 AM Response to Original message |
18. "Charity" |
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palmtree guy (119 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 06:39 AM Response to Original message |
19. ahhhh the joys arab spring |
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BlueJac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:21 AM Response to Original message |
20. Obama=disappointment |
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lostnfound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
22. More corporate welfare = "injecting democracy". |
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mountainlion55 (302 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
23. What a fucking |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
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neoralme (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:13 AM Response to Reply #24 |
33. Exactly. Well put. The dye is cast and most of us here know |
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stockholmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:35 AM Response to Reply #33 |
41. Assange-still appealing extradition here to Sweden,Wikileaks docs com out daily, hardly any care :.< |
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avebury (455 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
26. It is bad enough the the majority of Americans |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
29. If anyone wants to hear the other side of this |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
34. You mean we really aren't broke? |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
35. Too many underwater homes that need economic aid in America first. |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
36. Taking his supporters longer than usual to start posting on this, isn't it? |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
37. I'm not seeing what |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:29 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. +1. nt |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 09:26 AM Response to Reply #37 |
45. Who would those "someone elses" be? Corporate entities? |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 10:36 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. I know what words mean |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 03:55 AM Response to Reply #46 |
49. Is Obama paying off banks which gave guaranteed loans? AGAIN? |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 04:03 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. The US has used loan |
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FrankinMO (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
40. Can I get some debt relief also? |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
44. Transferring $$$ from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries? |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-19-11 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
47. How can he offer Billions to Tunesia and Egypt!!! |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 06:53 AM Response to Original message |
51. "Hopey/Changey" has turned out to be "Same old/same old." nt |
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