Thank the founding fathers - and lots of folks since then who have made sure our free speech is mostly intact ;-) I don't think you offended anyone - this sort of thread is a place to exchange viewpoints, if you ask me.
Sounds like we're not so vastly different in opinions, after all. I lean left, but mostly on social issues, rather than economic. Although, I'm one of those treehuggers, too.
The argument that wrestling the corporate giants is a reason not to push for greener tech makes me sad - but I do realize how huge a task it will be. I don't have ready numbers to point to, but I'm not convinced that investing in solar/wind would take that much extra money - I think of it as just transferring from the huge amounts we invest in fossil fuels. Like our wars, for example, which I agree were largely prompted by our concerns over the middle east (ie oil). They didn't achieve much, though, and imagine what
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drilling here wont help our debt nor will it lower prices...our prices will be the same as the rest of the worlds (bah foriegn dependency) OPEC has no more clout...although i do agree on letting drillers continue to drill to help balance off the incresed demands of china and india
and having a huge ass inefficient behemoth of a military wont keep people safe not that theres that much danger anyways
Ahem.... We sell our oil resources to Europe because they can't get along with the Middle East and it is worse than the US's relationship with them.
Soooo.... We will always be dependent. Lets say contribution margins to the US are 50% but to Europe is 65%. US COMPANIES WILL sell to Europe regardless of the price to the US consumer.
This is about the movie though... so... Um military spending really makes no sense but I'm not gonna debate that here as it has no relevance.
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Wilhelm II Hohensteinburg
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I support whom ever gets the American Army out of Germany, with this maybe you can get a little more money into caring for your people and less spending on eavesdropping in foreign business.... I am pretty sure we can handle European Affairs as we did when America was barely setting foot in the world stage.
Oh and if you keep up like this, Germany will end up getting all your manufacturing jobs lol (Schadenfreude), which is nice.
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Actually withdrawing your troops from the 130 countries you are currently "monitoring", would help your economy a lot I reckon.
Wilhelm, no offense, but you do know why there are so many US troops in Germany, right? Europe has always handled its own affairs just splendidly. Anyway, pulling troops out of Germany is so far off the radar for American voters that it never even gets a footnote right now.
That said, I agree wholeheartedly that we should get our boots off the ground wherever we possibly can. Save money and avoid making even more enemies, with one magical recipe. Militaries have a consistent and thousands-of-years-old record of creating more problems than they solve when there isn't a specific military threat.
my military view at this point was only based on the kind of problems our attempting to police { so called } the world has already caused us. the fact of the matter is, china and Russia are real threats to us, and make no mistake, if the roles were reversed and the opportunity ever comes open to them, I promise you they will make every attempt to do exactly as the United States has done. lets face it guys, Imperialism is not a new Idea. those in power always try to advance their power and maintain it. However I do agree whole heartily, I think we could do just as well, and it would certainly be more economically efficient for us if we pulled back to our own boarders. also iamihop11, I liked your idea about increasing the term limit and doing away with a possibility of reelection. that has real Merit if you ask me.
Well, I will say this, and this isn't propaganda. This is fact. Obama in his 4 years in office has tripled the deficit, which is 3 times that of all American presidents put together since George Washington. President Obama has greatly weakened our country. We are no longer the super power, which stands to reason why so many other countries and their citizens want him back in office. He is the beginning of the great fall of the USA. I'm sorry, no matter how expensive it is, you don't ever cut back on your military. When you pull troops out of certain places, leaving a skeleton crew there, you are endangering the lives of those men and women that you leave there. Stupid! You pull them all or leave them all there!
You ask your military men here in the US what they think of Obama....... they respect the man as they have to as the president, but they do not regard him as a good president or leader. Neither do I. The man blantantly
AAhh! Lorelei Has Indeed Spoken! hows that for right wing Propaganda monto? lol just messing with ya man.

your take on obama Lorelei is absolutely correct. and yes this country is becoming more and more a welfare state. here is my problem with the state run healthcare system that is being proposed here. in a perfect world universal healthcare for all would be great if it could be something that was of the highest quality. however, that is just simply not the case. do to the overwhelming cost for such an expenditure, the quality of the system winds up being crap! they are already making so many cuts within the system that it is reducing the quality of state sponsored healthcare { via medicaid/care}. Hospitals and nursing homes all over the country are already hurting over the cuts that have been made and are projected to be in worse shape when the full load of obama care sets in.
Lorelei and shave, the problem is that it simply isn't true that the majority of people who get gov't support are "freeloaders" who refuse to work. You have people working 2 or 3 jobs, but they're bad jobs and it doesn't provide enough money. That's much more common than lazy bums who just sit around all day (not to say that there aren't plenty of them, too). The lazy people are infuriating, but it's almost impossible to distinguish the two on an institutional scale. People seem to forget why we have these federal programs - it's because the communities, the capitalists, the markets were NOT doing a good job of helping each other out.
I agree that it's a slippery slope - it does build up a feeling of entitlement that is incredibly destructive. I would also agree that each person's success or failure should be down solely to his or her personal abilities and efforts, except for one crucial ele
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No offence taken iamihop11.
Well Lorelei revealed her extreme right side!
What about the people that can't afford private Health Care Insurance? I'm sure you have a couple of monopolizing enterprises (Medicaid and another one).
As for the illegal immigrants, Turks in Germany that are useless can just go... We don't need people in the streets or just more crime, but some other illegal Turks, work well and strive to survive in the honest and right path, they also struggle and work to get assimilated into German Culture, those illegal immigrants should be granted at least residency.
I am sure its the same case in America, where the south west is full of Hispanic people from Mexiko and Central America, even passing the american population originally there. Some work to get assimilated into American Society, work the right ways to get money and help do the jobs Americans do not like to do, just like the Turks
U kids are crazy. Every one of your points can be refuted. The democratic way is innrfecient but the republican way is pure evil and retarded