If the government can't fund it's OWN people how can it fund other countries?
Rosa Luxemburg
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Wed Aug-04-10 10:45 AM
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| If the government can't fund it's OWN people how can it fund other countries? |
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Something doesn't add up.
Due to the recession:
we can't fund health
we can't fund schools
we can't fund training for our workers
we can't fix the roads
we can't fund this and that and the other
so this government has to rein back funding programs from overseas. Stop programs for missile shields for other countries. Bush's ill conceived programs have to be overturned NOW!
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| Jackpine Radical
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Wed Aug-04-10 10:48 AM
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| 1. We are able to fund other countries |
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BECAUSE we don't take care of our own.
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| JuniperLea
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Wed Aug-04-10 10:49 AM
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| 2. Plus, we are borrowing from one or more countries to give to other countries... |
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We are going to find ourselves unable to do anything for anyone if this business doesn't end.
If we could just stop, even for a little while, and make ourselves stronger, we'd be a lot more use to the world.
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| OHdem10
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Wed Aug-04-10 10:56 AM
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| 3. We can sure hand out bags of money in Iraq and Afghanistan to |
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bribe people to be on our side.
They even give cash to soldiers to bribe the people on the
ground level. Someone was whining about 9 million lost dollars.
Has anyone kept up with the cash outlays??
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| Rosa Luxemburg
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Wed Aug-04-10 05:57 PM
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| 5. we need to stop leftover Bush and cheney tactics |
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we also need to hold a trial of bush, cheney and rumsfeld
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| and-justice-for-all
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Wed Aug-04-10 02:35 PM
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| 4. We should not be giving funds to any country at all... |
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that means cutting Israel off as well.
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| golfguru
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Wed Aug-04-10 06:17 PM
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| 6. We have soldiers stationed in 3 dozen countries |
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Go figure. In essence we are borrowing from China to
defend markets for Japan & China & others. All these countries
have surplus trades with us. Asinine comes to mind.
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| Exilednight
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Wed Aug-04-10 07:36 PM
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| 7. Just pray to whatever god you may or may not believe in that China does not ......... |
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cash in those bonds they are holding. Or even worse, start selling them off at pennies on the dollar and sink our currency along with our economy.
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| Rosa Luxemburg
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Wed Aug-04-10 07:37 PM
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the west has been very short-sighted
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| treestar
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Wed Aug-04-10 11:27 PM
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| 9. The stimulus covered all of that |
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Our being world policeman has been going on for decades.
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