Posted on 10/07/2018 5:48:58 AM PDT by Nextrush
"When it comes once again the debt crisis will come back and hit cause actually national borrowing, corporate borrowing and individual borrowing is even bigger than it was back in 2008 when we had those huge problems.."
Nigel Farage-"The Nigel Farage Show"-9/10/2018
"Democrats...tax and spend...Republicans...spend and spend"
Michael Savage-"The Michael Savage Show"-10/1/2018
".....British interests involve almost total subjection to the wishes of Saudi Arabia. So their current stance of supposed horror on the subject of Chemical Weapons, especially when (as was not the case in Halabja), their use has not been established beyond doubt, may be less than wholly genuine..."
Peter Hitchens blog post-9/11/2018
"Many dead including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria....President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad...."
President Donald J. Trump-"Twitter"-4/8/2018
"..We protect Saudi Arabia, they're rich. And I love the king, King Salman but I said: 'King, we're protecting you. You might not be there for two weeks without us, you have to pay for your military'...."
President Donald J. Trump speaks in Southhaven, Mississippi-10/2/2018
There was a time when the British Empire was rich and it paid people to fight for it like Jordan's "Arab Legion".
But that was when the British pound was worth five dollars and there was a British Empire. Now its reduced to the "United Kingdom", a shell of what it once was.
Several years ago then Prime Minister David Cameron hailed a new naval base in oil rich Bahrain for Britain's military paid for by Bahrain. So who's fighting for who now.
President Trump's statement about the US military propping up Saudi Arabia certainly got attention last Wednesday night but was he trying to distract us from something?
Some years ago (a decade or more) I became aware of someone I know travelling around the world to find money to finance an educational institution.
His travels took him to Asia for sure but they also ended up in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
Eventually he put his experience to work for a major corporation doing exactly the same thing in the same places.
President Trump also mentioned rich Asian countries paying for "their defense" in that speech like South Korea and Japan.
The British are on the ropes and need Saudi money and business but so do other Western nations.
Its all about money and a shortage of money and the problem is a worse as its ever been, even more so than in 2008.
For now we got a high stock market and low unemployment but that won't last forever. The bubble will burst.
With President Trump playing hardball with a big holder of our national debt, China, the money will have to come from somewhere.
Saudi Arabia, not to mention Kuwait and other Gulf Arab nations paid for the first Gulf War in 1990 and 1991.
We can see Saudi-Sunni Muslim influence on policy in the events of the last decades.
And we saw how that worked with genuflection to Islam as well. The armed forces radios played out the Christmas carols instrumentally in 1990 in Saudi Arabia. Wouldn't want a non-Muslim message broadcast. The Islamic standard was observed in the entertainment for the troops with Bob Hope's troupe reduced to men only for visiting the Persian Gulf countries.
Then in the late 1990's the NATO intervention in Bosnia to protect the Muslims in Kosovo.
And our leaders are concerned about protecting Muslims today.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has gotten involved in the Rohingya Muslim situation in Myanmar.
He recently called on the government there to prosecute members of the military fighting terrorism for "human rights violations">
Vice-President Mike Pence just several days ago talked about Muslims in China bein persecuted by the regime.
Thousands of Chinese Uighur Muslims are fighting as part of the jihadist movements in places like Libya and Syria right now.
And here we are post 9/11 doing the bidding of the nation most of the terrorist hijackers came from, the Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia, cradle of Islam. We (Israel, US, UK etc.) ratcheting up against the ultimate target, Sunni Muslim Iran it seems. Military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The "Arab Spring" mess in Libya and then Syria.
And as Peter Hitchens put it in his February 25, 2018 column:
"Just bear in mind as you read the latest propaganda from Syria...that the 'rebels' and 'activists' in the suburbs of Damasacus are the people we used to call Al Qaeda. That is, they are the ones who blew up the Twin Towers. But Al Qaeda has now got some very good spin doctors....."
There may have been a crackdown on "Al Qaeda the organization" but on the other hand there is cooperation with "Al Qaeda the movement" and its anti-Assad campaign part of a wider goal of dealing with Iran in the end and all designed to make the money men in and around Saudi Arabia happy.
Iran is evil we are told but Kim Jong-un in North Korea has brutally killed his opponents and has dozens of real nuclear weapons in his possession. Yet President Donald Trump met him once and intends to meet him again. What makes Iran any worse?
When George W. Bush alluded to the "religion of peace" maybe he should have the "religion of money" regarding Islam because that is what it is for the nations like ours saddled with debt.
The cost of the dependence on Saudi Arabia and support for jihadist wars in Libya and Syria included the Islamic State and the tide of migrants into Europe and both of those are associated with sexual assault.
Islamic State rape victim Nadia Murad was named Friday as one of the two Nobel Peace Prize winners this year, another reminder of the folly in Syria all because of financial connection to Saudi Arabia.
I hope you haven’t quit your day job.
America is not dependent on Saudi money, American politicians are dependent on Saudi money.
That could very well be the problem as I see it.
Donald Trump is playing things well in switching around the nations he is critical of with a lot of focus on China right now.
They are no doubt buying politicians in this country along with the Saudis and others.
The British government I strongly doubt is without sin when one considers the Steele writings against Trump used to justify Mueller’s activities. They were in league with Obama speaking out against Brexit on behalf of the British government for sure.
Without the Saudi Petro-dollar, our economy is that of Zimbabwe. They have been keeping the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. If that stops, you will learn quickly what inflation is.
You are incorrect. Saudi selling oil in dollars IS the reason we have the reserve currency. When that stops—and it will—ice is going to get tough in a hurry.
Not if we learn to live within our means.
If we stop borrowing money to fund our excesses, they have no power over us.
“I hope you haven’t quit your day job.”
LOL. Well done.
As an individual, I guess you are correct.
But the size of the national debt means that it will never be paid off. Ever.
We have terminal cancer. We are dying. The question is whether we outlive it, or if it kills our kids, or our grandkids.
The Baby Boom killed us. We lived of a national credit card since the early 1960s. There is no way out of the economic mess. We lived on the military industrial complex, and then people spend millions of dollars living far beyond their ability to be supported. And that is going to get worse.
I am not “blaming” any one, or any group. It is the fact that we’ve lived beyond our means as a nation for half a century. That bill had to be paid.
England doesn’t need money from anyone.
The Left was highly critical of the Gulf Wars and talking about “oilmen” and “oil money” but where are they now.
They might come back to help the Democrats, but not for principle, as the war rhetoric builds up against Iran.
There is a Saudi connection to our economy and it is important.
The relationship with the Saudis started in 1945 with FDR and the Saudi king on a warship in a Saudi harbor as FDR came back from Yalta.
Amazing, FDR was giving stuff to Stalin and then inaugurating a relationship that would lead us to a relationship with Islam and terrorism.
As Mr. Savage pointed out the other day, the spending isn’t stopping. We are so used to the welfare state and big business has no problem as long as they don’t pay high taxes.
In addition, Mr. Farage has said debt and borrowing by business and government alike is as great as its ever been.
We are deeper in the hole than we have ever been.
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