New York Times: Do YOU Recognize America Any More?

[Miss Kitty]

Aww man I had to run out and didn't get a chance to answer. Like I said, that was something I saw not neccesarily something I agree with. However, it is an interesting top 5-6 politically. Canada and Mexico are economic "partners" with the US via NAFTA which some argue has hurt and not helped the US people. Saudi Arabia and Venezuela aren't what I would call "friends.". Nigeria is a political wild card and who knows what will happen with Iraq when all's said and done.

Texas Tea sure makes strange bedfellows.

I am surprsied my friend, Bob, has not used that term. He LOVES everything from Texas.

 

[Bob]

I am surprsied my friend, Bob, has not used that term. He LOVES everything from Texas.

Is Texas in the United Nations?

 

[NoHall]

Is Texas in the United Nations?

Right along with Canada.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Is Texas in the United Nations?

...Hi, Bob!

 

[raven]

America is pimping itself to the world for cash. Banks have gone begging for money to patch up the mess they've created with easy credit that fueled the real estate money grab. If other nations don't like something about America, they can simply buy us and change it...beginning with the financials.

(1) Abu Dhabi Investment Authority buying a 4.9% stake in Citigroup Inc. for $7.5 billion

(2) Chinese investment fund's $5 billion stake in Morgan Stanley

(3) Singapore government-owned investment company's $6.2 Billion stake in Merrill Lynch

(4) Merrill Lynch currently in talks with Chinese and Middle Eastern government-sponsored investment funds to sell off ANOTHER big stake in company.


For Christmas, I received a small 2008 calendar from a trout fishing resort I visited this year. On the bottom of the page was written "Printed in the U.S.A" -- it was kinda nice to see.


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not to mention the department of commerce's recent elimination of certain processes to prevent american technology and patents from reaching the hands of the chinese military industrial complex. anything for a buck huh?
from reuters:

The program increases the risk American goods will be illicitly sold to Syria or Iran or help China improve its armed forces, the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control said in a report.
Two of five companies selected in October for the plan have close ties "to China's military industrial complex or to companies that have been punished by the U.S. government for proliferation or other improper export behavior," the report said.
"In view of the failure of the selection process to safeguard U.S. national security, the Commerce Department should suspend the Validated End-User program pending a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation," the research group, which opposes the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, said.
A U.S. Commerce Department official defended the program and said it was part of a broader initiative in June imposing new export controls on about 20 categories of high-tech goods that could be used by China's rapidly expanding military.
Commerce created the scheme, which allows approved companies in China to import certain high-tech goods for civilian uses without obtaining individual export licenses, to address U.S. firms' concerns about being locked out of the fast-growing market.

 

[raven]

plus with illegal immigration slavery is back. if you don't believe that listen to people's rationale for not enforcing immigration, wage and labor laws:

"our economy would collapse without this labor force."

ummmmmmmmm sound familiar? how is it the left are the plantation owners of 2007?

 

[elgordoboy]

plus with illegal immigration slavery is back. if you don't believe that listen to people's rationale for not enforcing immigration, wage and labor laws:

"our economy would collapse without this labor force."

ummmmmmmmm sound familiar? how is it the left are the plantation owners of 2007?

Yeah and all that money sent back to Africa created a middle class that lasts to this day. I think the mmmmm key got stuck on your keyboard.