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| Re: Coffee for DJ [message #74037 is a reply to message #74018] |
Sat, 14 October 2006 08:46   |
Chris Ludwig
Messages: 868
Registered: May 2006
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". You know, the one enriching all the uranium. I
> disagree with plenty of the Republicans and the Presidents actions,
> policies, etc., but being tough with terroists is one area we can't waiver.
> These people want to kill us. I'm affraid nothing short of a few smuggled in
> soviet nukes going off is going to make this clear to people. Too bad it'll
> be too late at that point. Sorry for the drama, but this one thing more than
> any other scares me sick.
>
> Tony
>
>> DJ wrote:
>>> Are you really happy that our economy is artificially propped up with
>>> trillions
>>> of dollars borrowed from countries like China?
>>>
>>> Absolutely not....and who praytell, gave China the jumpstart that vaulted
>>> them into the position they are in nowadays?
>> Nixon.
>>
>>
>>>> It's bad enough that we have placed ourselves in the position that we
>>>> need a constant flow of mideast
>>> oil to keep our economy going.<
>>>
>>> I agree. A president with some foresight would have recognized this back
>>> when we had the time to di something about it,
>> Carter did, but we voted him out and effectively pretended there was no
>> problem with our oil dependency for the next 22 years (Reagan, Bush1,
>> Clinton, Bush2).
>>
>> Gore probably would have tried to do something.
>>
>>
>>> especially upon having had ward publicly declared on this country by Al
>>> Qaeda. So what are we going to do? Are the Democrats going to solve this?
>>> In order to do so, we need to become energy independent *as
>>> in..yesterday*. Now how to go about that when all domestic energy options
>>> other than drilling for oil in old, depleted oil and gas reservoirs here
>>> are off the table whereas solutions that *are proven* could bring this
>>> about within the next 5 years are off the table?
>>>
>>> I'm all for clean energy. enough clean energy to sustain t\our economy is
>>> 15 years away, at least. We don't have 15 years...especially with a party
>>> in power that is willing to negotiate with terrorists, which to them is a
>>> sign of weakness. They will be encouraged by this.
>> Energy policy needs immediate attention. And some amount of ti
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| Re: Coffee for DJ [message #74044 is a reply to message #74037] |
Sat, 14 October 2006 11:07 |
animix
Messages: 356
Registered: September 2006
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no@way.jack" target="_blank">no@way.jack> wrote:
>Are you really happy that our economy is artificially propped up with
>trillions
>of dollars borrowed from countries like China?
>
>Absolutely not....and who praytell, gave China the jumpstart that vaulted
>them into the position they are in nowadays?
>
>>It's bad enough that we have placed ourselves in the position that we need
>>a constant flow of mideast
>oil to keep our economy going.<
>
>I agree. A president with some foresight would have recognized this back
>when we had the time to di something about it, especially upon having had
>ward publicly declared on this country by Al Qaeda. So what are we going
to
>do? Are the Democrats going to solve this? In order to do so, we need to
>become energy independent *as in..yesterday*. Now how to go about that when
>all domestic energy options other than drilling for oil in old, depleted
oil
>and gas reservoirs here are off the table whereas solutions that *are
>proven* could bring this about within the next 5 years are off the table?
>
>I'm all for clean energy. enough clean energy to sustain t\our economy is
15
>years away, at least. We don't have 15 years...especially with a party in
>power that is willing to negotiate with terrorists, which to them is a sign
>of weakness. They will be encouraged by this.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>DJ
>
>
>"Gene Lennon" <glennon@NOSPmyrealbox.com> wrote in message
>news:4553565b$1@linux...
>>
>> "DJ" <no@way.jack> wrote:
>>>
>>>3. Since the republicans have rebuilt the economy that Clinton destroyed,
>>
>>>and it usually takes the democrats at least 4 years to wreck a good
>>>economy,
>>
>>>the border control issue is going to be their biggest domestic challenge.
>>
>>>They are going to have to carry the ball on this and if it is not
>>>effective,
>>
>>>the responsibility will fall in their lap.
>>>
>>
>> This is from an article in the New Yorker that is about a year and a half
>> old. The numbers are much worse now.
>> Are you really happy that our economy is artificially propped up with
>> trillions
>> of dollars borrowed from countries like China? It's bad enough that we
>> have
>> placed ourselves in the position that we need a constant flow of mideast
>> oil to keep our economy going. Very few Americans understand the danger
of
>> working under the threat of petrodollar conversion. (
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodolla
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