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| 14 May 2007
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Posted on 05/14/2007 7:54:55 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
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Since the Democrats retook congress last year, they've jacked around like clowns, doing nothing. That changed last Friday though, when Charlie Rangel snapped into sense and realized that our hemisphere has a problem that can be expressed in two words: Hugo Chavez. He put aside his partisan views and acted in the national interest. Guy deserves a medal. As of Friday, the US's strategic position has been vastly improved because of Rangel's courage. Hugo is screaming right now.
To: Kitten Festival
What will they buy from us?
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:17:11 AM PDT
by
ex-snook
("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
To: Kitten Festival
Quickly that drunk will do something stupid
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:19:04 AM PDT
by
italianquaker
("blue dog democrats", that dog don't hunt)
To: ex-snook
What will they buy from us?Equipment from companies like Caterpillar and John Deere. Trucks from Freightliner, Mack and PACCAR.
They will buy military equipment from Boeing, L3, etc
They will buy more agricultural products from us.
It will lessen the need for Chavez and increase the importance of North America to these nations in the infancy of democracy.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:24:46 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(The Democratic Party will not exist in a few years....we are watching history unfold before us.)
To: Erik Latranyi
Sounds good as long as we don’t loan [give] them the money to buy from us.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:27:46 AM PDT
by
ex-snook
("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
To: ex-snook
If we buy more from them, they’ll have money to buy from us. See how that works?
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:30:11 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are protectionists (and goldbugs) so bad at math?)
To: ex-snook
Sounds good as long as we dont loan [give] them the money to buy from us.Why not? We would be lending to businesses, not the government. Our banks would make the profit on the loan interest.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:38:01 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(The Democratic Party will not exist in a few years....we are watching history unfold before us.)
To: Kitten Festival
The headline had me worried; I thought some environmental wacko had devised a free trade scheme to sell sunlight credits or restrict its use to daylight hours only.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:39:15 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Toddsterpatriot
If we buy more from them, theyll have money to buy from us. See how that works?
The same argument was used to justify trade with China. See how that works?
To: gas0linealley
The same argument was used to justify trade with China.We sold them $12 billion in 1996, $55 billion in 2006.
See how that works?
Yes.
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posted on
05/14/2007 9:41:47 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are protectionists (and goldbugs) so bad at math?)
To: Toddsterpatriot; 1rudeboy
Ra Raing for the Chicoms again i see. I’ll ping rude for you.
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posted on
05/14/2007 9:44:25 AM PDT
by
jpsb
To: jpsb
You’ll have to point out how the numbers I posted are in anyway “ra raing”. LOL!
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posted on
05/14/2007 9:46:19 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are protectionists (and goldbugs) so bad at math?)
To: Toddsterpatriot
We can either buy from China, which is an enemy, or buy from Colombia, which is a loyal and faithful pro-American friend. Because we are going to buy from one of them. You decide.
To: Kitten Festival
Stop it, you're making sense. Tell the idiots who whine about China but don't want to buy from Mexico either.
I think they're immune to logic.
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posted on
05/14/2007 9:47:55 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are protectionists (and goldbugs) so bad at math?)
To: ex-snook
Machinery, wheat, cows, beef (shortage there because hungry Venezuelans are buying all their beef), software, cars, services, tractors, basically, everything we can make or service.
To: Erik Latranyi
To: ex-snook
Won’t happen - they are creating an actual economy in that country, with private-sector jobs and taxes. They are cutting bureaucrats, they are making it easy to start businesses, they are one of the very few that’s moving in the sustainable direction. They are going for it honestly. It’s so unlike most of the third world, whose only mantra is gimme gimme gimme. All these guys want is opportunity to trade without customs duties, same as Mexico gets.
To: Kitten Festival
Free trade with Panama and Colombia would be a good idea. You "pertecktionists" don't have much to worry about the former, as it has a largely service based economy.
Speaking as one who has worked in Panama, it is bad enough that said country signed an MLAT, thereby ending its bank secrecy laws that made Panama a major banking center in the 1980s. I hope that whatever free trade deal gets signed does NOT involve further "sharing of information" on bank accounts.
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posted on
05/14/2007 9:51:53 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: Toddsterpatriot
Whoops, I’m sorry, my reply was for GasolineAlley, who asked about China, not you.
To: gas0linealley
We can either buy from China, which is an enemy, or buy from Colombia, which is a loyal and faithful pro-American friend. Because we are going to buy from one of them. You decide.
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