🚀 go-pugleaf

Napoleon <anarch@666yes.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:29:18 -0600, Snowbound
> <loosebowels@ixnay.invalid> wrote:
>> Golly gee, thanks Congress! Thanks, Mr. President! You all may be
>> total fuckheads intent on ruining the country, but you are OUR kinds
>> of fuckheads! These are the kinds of moments that make you glad we
>> sent all those soldiers to die in Iraq. This is what it means to be
>> American.
>>
>> <http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/06/real_estate/walking_away/index.htm?secti
>> on=money_topstories>
>
> Indeed. The whole American economy is based on borrowing Chinese money
> to buy Chinese manufactured goods. Thank god for our wonderful
> relationship with a communist country. All the Korean war vets should
> be proud.
>
> As long as the stock market is happy with the fed's interest rate cuts
> and Joe Schmoo gets his rebate check to buy plastic Chinese crap at
> Walmart, EVERYTHING'S GOLDEN! And now everyone who bought overinflated
> houses with borrowed  Chinese money can get out of their bad decisions
> with no consequences. Yippee!

> All this makes so much more sense than an actual economy
> based on manufacturing goods to sell to your own people,

Modern first world economys are about a hell of a lot more
than just that, and have been for a hell of a long time now.

> and keeping the money in the country.

And that stupid blinkered mentality is what produced the worst of the great depression.

> Oh - and keeping your military troops in your own country on the border.

Havent done that for centurys now. Just as well too now that the US oil has run out.