Oh please, your understanding of economics is even worse than your comprehension of political science. Ask yourself this simple question: Who has more money to bribe politicians -- Jews or Muslims? OK, now who are the Republicans supporting and who are the Democrats supporting? That's right -- the Republicans are supporting the people who are too poor to bribe them and the Democrats are supporting the people who are rich enough to bribe them. Think about that with both of your brain cells for awhile. Honestly, it seems like you can't get the racist stereotype of rich Jewish bankers and jewelers out of your head. Please, try to spend less time at your local Nazi part meetings and more time with your therapist.
Actually, we are discussing anti-American sentiment -- by Russians, Canadians, Islamists, and random assorted kooks.
USA: GDP $11,750,000,000,000 Economic aid: 6,900,000,000 %=0.05 Japan: GDP $3,745,000,000,000 Economic aid: 7,900,000,000 %=0.21 Germany: GDP $ 2,362,000,000,000 Economic aid: 5,600,000,000 %=0.24 UK: GDP $ 1,782,000,000,000 Economic aid: 4,200,000,000 %=0.23 France: GDP $ 1,737,000,000,000 Economic aid: 5,400,000,000 %= 0.31 As you can see USA spends the least amount as percent of GDP and even money wise spends less than Japan which has much smaller economy. On the other hand USA has the highest percent on the military spending. Economic aid- donor 2005
I seriously agree with that. I've seen videos of Saddam at rallies, and the Iraqis were firing their AK-47s in the air, and no one shot at him, even though they could. You'd think if Saddam was such a bad man the Iraqis would have killed him the first chance they got. The fact they they never shot him shows they respect him. Now I'd like to see George W. Bush or Dick Cheney get in front of thousands of Americans armed with AK-47s, but I don't think that is going to happen any time soon.
What censor is that? Are you saying that your friends should have the right to be anti-Semitic and push their hate propaganda on Jewish cadets?
More lessons about American history: "By contemporary standards, America in the first half of the 20th century was a profoundly racist nation. Jews and people of color were openly barred from clubs, colleges, neighborhoods, and mainstream American life. In vaudeville, racist humor dominated. Performers playing African Americans were required to appear in blackface, while stage Jews had to wear long beards, and be venal Shylocks. By 1939, the anti-Semites had two causes: keeping America out of the European war, and keeping European Jews out of America. And they had two famous men in their ranks. Henry Ford was a true rags-to-riches hero. He was also an anti-Semite, who railed incessantly against "the Jewish plan to control the world" in his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent (circulation allegedly 700,000), which Ford dealerships distributed free of charge. A collection of Ford's ghostwritten columns was published as The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem — a best-seller in Germany. The other famous American was Charles Lindbergh, who may have been an anti-Semite, but most certainly claimed publicly that Jews were trying, partly through their ownership of the media, to draw America into the war. Lindbergh represented America First, the powerful isolationist organization that, in fact, ejected Henry Ford for his anti-Semitic views. (See The Isolationist Movement.) Also ejected by America First was radio preacher Charles Coughlin of the Christian Front, an underground army that attacked Jews in the streets of New York and elsewhere. Coughlin's allies included the German American Bund, led by Fritz Kuhn. ("I will become America's Hitler".) The Nazi-sympathizing Bund had elaborate summer camps and held an infamous 1939 New York rally attended by 20,000 people. Some Bund rallies were enthusiastically broken up by gangster Meyer Lansky and his boys, while Minnesota gambler David Berman was so effective disrupting rallies of the anti-Semitic Silver Shirts that the Silver Shirts stopped holding rallies. The most powerful American anti-Semite was practically unknown. Breckinridge Long, who claimed to be under persistent attack from "Jewish agitators (who) all hate me", was a former ambassador to Italy and great admirer of Mussolini. As the U.S. State Department's man in charge of helping Europe's Jews, he deliberately created bureaucratic obstacles for refugees seeking visas, and found ways to block many humanitarian efforts. 90% of the immigration quotas from countries controlled by Germany and Italy were therefore never filled. Had they been, it's estimated that the lives of 200,000 people could have been saved." Anti-Semitism
gworld gworld gworld, only you could so completely fail to understand the data which you cut and paste so liberally. This data refers to net official development assistance (ODA) from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations to developing countries and multilateral organizations. ODA is defined as financial assistance that is concessional in character, has the main objective to promote economic development and welfare of the less developed countries (LDCs), and contains a grant element of at least 25%. The data does not cover other official flows (OOF) or private flows. In other words, this data does not include private charity, which is how the U.S. gives so much more money than every other country on earth. Please, try to be more accurate with your vicious propagandizing. Which the U.S. also uses for the benefit of the entire world, from rescuing victims of mother nature to rescuing entire nations from predators. America devotes not only its money to benefitting the entire world, but also its sons and daughters.
Well, then show me 1 benefit of the war, noone has been able to do that yet, like usual, you,will and the many others continue to avoid the topic by insulting people, because you have no educated arguments whatsoever. All you have done is stereotype people and insult them. I am one of the few stepping up and actually posting fact, what has your side offered? I mean, come on, look at the quote im responding to, it just goes to show again that your side has nothing, and like usual are resorting to petty childish insults. I can go on all day posting reasons why this war will never have benefits, except for other countries that is making profit from this. And now the foreign countries who are going to enjoy the interest that america will have to pay. But really im not surprised to hear responses like that, its pretty typical that when someone has nothing to say, they resort to insults and funny statements such as the many will has made, the quote above this, and everything henny has said. Anyhow keep them coming. I must say, this is the first time I have ever met people so arrogant that they support a war and DONT EVEN KNOW WHY?? lol BTW, WILL YOU STILL HAVENT APPOLOGIZED FOR LYING YOU LIAR, SO UNTIL YOU APPOLOGIZE, YOU HAVE NO ARGUMENT!!!!!!! lmao, Will logic FIRST HAND! Will: "Which the U.S. also uses for the benefit of the entire world, from rescuing victims of mother nature to rescuing entire nations from predators. America devotes not only its money to benefitting the entire world, but also its sons and daughters." last I checked, america is devoting its money to slaughtering iraq, I mean that is the reason the administration is trying to extend the debt limit right? I mean, if im wrong, feel free to show some proof, which you have never been able to do yet. Wups, again it has shown that you are a liar right? According to your funny logic? SO YOU HAVE LOST ALL CREDIBILITY, NOW APPOLOGIZE YOU LIAR!!!! lol.... If america is so concerned with helping people, why are they throwing katrina victims out of their motels in april because the money is going to goto the war in iraq? Think that's propoganda? I watched 2 different people try to propose an ammendment for that on cspan, and of course it get's regected. Will: "Honestly, it seems like you can't get the racist stereotype of rich Jewish bankers and jewelers out of your head. Please, try to spend less time at your local Nazi part meetings and more time with your therapist." Again, you have nothing intelligent to say so you resort to calling him a Nazi and that he needs a therapist. Talk about a hypocrit, you are the most racist person in this thread, you are for killing innocent people, and on top of that, you are the only one stooping to throwing racial remarks. and you have the audasity to call someone else racist?? and that THEY need a tharapist??? lol.... pathetic... How the hell can you guys live in the usa, one of the most media centered countries in the world... and not watch the news.... just doesnt make sense to me... Or do you hide under the blankets whenever they show that your administration fucked up? You guys can live in your carebear reality, and close your minds whenever it involves your country making a mistake. I guess sometimes its easier to live in ignorance. I understand that its hard to answer a question, when the answers go against everything you believe in, but cant you at least answer one big question I have asked so many times? How is this war benefiting america? Or, how is this war benefiting the American people?
I am still waiting for a reply to the question I asked in the reply before this, and the many other replies I made, but Let's analyze this from two sides, let's assume I can go back in the past to when bush first went into office. With no opinions, this is what I see: -Some terrorists steal planes with box cutters and fly 2 into the trade center, 1 into the pentagon, and 1 into a field. -The CIA finds osama bin laden responsible -The patriotic act is formed to (fight terrorism or to give bush more power -which ever way you look at it-) with little or no debate, and is passed in the snap of the finger. -Troops are sent to afghanistan to find Osama and his people -They fail -Bush now over live TV says they have proof that saddam hussein has WMDS -They take it to the UN to investigate and nothing is found -Bush ignores that and sends troops to iraq against the UN (after lying about proof) -America tries to convince other countries to join his illegal war, but most refuse, and dont welcome him to their country. So instead he has to go in secretly to have meetings, so no citizens see him. (check the news). - America finds saddam and puts him in a cell - America continues and hits a kill-score of over 35,000 of innocent people - Bush is re-elected despite his crimes - Bush confesses that he spies on his own people and invades their privacy by tapping their HOME PHONES!! - To supply the bullets to go into (the towel heads -as someone like will would call them), America becomes #1 in terms of external debt (IN THE WORLD!) -Gas prices raise higher than EVER BEFORE IN HISTORY, in relative terms. -Debt is higher than EVER BEFORE IN HISTORY! -The administration costs are higher than EVER BEFORE IN HISTORY. -Federal assistance has dropped more drastically than EVER BEFORE IN HISTORY. -None of that is good enough, so the administration now tries to EXTEND THE DEBT LIMIT! -Osama is still alive and free as he watches america fall further and further into a crisis..And Iraq fall further and further into civil war. Now from an unbiased oppinion, under the basic definition of terrorism, osama got exactly what he wanted. (Assuming this is what he wanted)... So looking at that, its pretty obvious that a non racist such as myself would be against the war. Its all there, plain as day, and the fact that some people dont see really scares me. I mean no matter what you do, no matter how much you show it on the news, no matter how many news paper prints the articles some people will just never bother to read and if they do, they are so pampered that they just cant comprehend what they are reading, and that bad things happen in this world. Instead they will goto forums and post how wrong people are, or how racist they are, or throw 10 yr old insults at them. Yet offer up not a single answer or fact. It just goes to show alot. And what makes things worse, is you have people like will constantly disrespecting the innocent people who are dying unjustly everyday, because his racist background makes him feel that they deserve it. I really feel sorry for them. And you know what, I also feel sorry for Will. When a grown man cant even comprehend the world around him.... Its just sad.....
Will doesn't have a thing to apologize for, Argyle, and he hasn't lied about anything in here. You come off like a fanatic with your style of posting. And the only one arrogant is you making suggestions that you're the only one here who understands the situations at hand. I'm not sure how you've come to form your opinions, but that is what they are, just opinions, perceptions and IMO 80% of what you claim is false or simply distorted thru the eyes of someone who has unreasonable hatred towards Bush or our government in general. Look at the bigger picture here. How would you have handled post-9/11 and where would you have gone from there? It's easy to criticise when you're not in the hot seat yourself. I believe if we had a President like Gore back then, we would be in bad fucking shape right now. If you and others can't find it within you to support Bush in any way, at least he does deserve some respect and gratitude. But then again, if you hang around the wrong people and hear "Bush this, Bush that" all day ... maybe you just get one-track minded like that. Dissing Bush is lame. He has lied, he has fucked things up, but you know what: who hasn't? And at the end of the day, when you look at everything ... I believe he is doing a very good job. I'm not necessarily repub, but I'm definitely pro-Bush.
argyle: The falsehoods in your last post have in and been refuted again and again. We're not here to do your homework for you. You are clearly too hate-filled and close-minded to accept the truth. We're busy people and it is not worth our time and effort to attempt to teach someone who obviously has neither the desire nor the capacity to learn.
What would I have done post 911? I would have went after the people responsible, that's the normal thing to do right? And again ill bring up the fact that my oppinions were formed from news articles, government sites, and from cspan. All you guys do is say im wrong and that im a fanatic and throw insults, but where's the proof? You surely have to have something right? I think its odd that you call me the fanatic yet im posting what was in the news papers and on tv and even links to alot of the sources, im not just sitting here insulting everyone and saying everyone is wrong without something to back it up. @will, see, you dont have an answer do you? There are right ways of doing things, and bush did not choose the right ways. if the president had done it legally, planned it, and supplied good reason, instead of just lying, going against the UN and forging an illegal, unplanned, expencive war that screws over the american people in the long wrong, I would not have as much of a problem with it. You have to think about it logically. "You are clearly too hate-filled and close-minded to accept the truth. We're busy people and it is not worth our time and effort to attempt to teach someone who obviously has neither the desire nor the capacity to learn." Read your own responses to what people say and you say im full of hate and that im close minded? Everytime I show you that you are wrong, you change the subject, everytime I ask you a question, you change the subject (or make a reply like the previous one) so dont say im close minded.
"After the people responsible?" I wished things were that simple in the world of intelligence. But they are not.
Well, last I checked, bin laden is responsible.. Afterall he did admit it. And according to their "intelligence" he is still in his mountains, I dont see how bombing iraq will somehow fix the whole 911 thing. You would think focusing all that on the person responsible would make more sense. If he had proof of wmds, I would be less against this war, but bombing the hell out of a 3rd world country over rumor is unjust in my eyes, I dont care who the leader is, innocent people are innocent people, I dont care where they live, and no innocent person deserves to die over a lie.
Oh so he is the only fanatic? What about the others? You want to catch Bin, kick back, and wait for the next kook inspired by 9/11 start the next coup? You underestimate what is going on in the world of Islamic extremists. I believe our wars and hardline battle against terror have prevented some major attacks on us and our allies. We just don't know about it in detail ... that's why they call it the secret service. You make up your mind based on the limited information that you have.
Little willy Now that we proved that other countries government help more than US government, your latest excuse is about private charities. Do you have any stats about this and how it compares to other countries? Do you have any stats that how much of the money from private charities spend in USA and how much is helping other countries? Do you have any stats about what percent is just a way to hide assets in non-profit charity organization? May be, you just expect us to believe your BS because you are the little willy, the x-box general of video games? How are the death squads in south America, and torture chambers staffed by members trained by America or over throwing democratic elected governments is helping other countries?
huh? kick back? isnt that what america is already doing by focusing on iraq instead of the people responsible? how can you even say that attacking iraq over false information has anything at all to do with 911, they are not responsible for 911 (which seems to have reformed the term terrorist), al queda is responsible. Just the fact that bin laden hasnt been cought but saddam has shows alot. How often does america get terrorist attacks against them in their own country, before and after the war? You make it sound like just because a fraction of al queda attacked america, the entire middle east is just gonna unload. There is no proof at all for this, we have rules and laws for a reason, if any country can just bomb any country for any reason they come up with, what is the point in the UN? You break laws and you are going to make people angry, you do things the legal way, and noone can say shit. And had this have been planned first, america wouldnt be stuck with the sour aftertaste that has been created economically for the future. That's how it should have been done in the first place and it would have prevented most of the problems.
If our intelligence service had to wait for proof, we'd already be in ashes. Do you think the other side is going thru due process? Why don't you take a trip to Morocco or another Islamic nation to see what people are really like over there and see for yourself how deep the hatred towards Jews (and Americans for supporting Israel) really is. Seriously, man: you've been influenced by all of the "Bush wants oil" talk. Not saying he doesn't want the oil, but it's not that simple when it comes to explaining the war. The oil may be part of what enables us financially to clean up other people's messes. But we need to protect ourselves. And our friends, the Israelis. Because if it was for the rest of the world, they wouldn't give a shit if the entire state of Israel was to be wiped out, or so it seems.