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To: Vaquero

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population of all the nations and is dear to Great Leader Obama as he lived there as a youth. It is not a greatly disadvantaged land as it has oil, minerals, manufacturing and exports palm oil and textiles to the US.


7 posted on 12/09/2012 4:14:41 PM PST by RicocheT (Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
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To: RicocheT

Indonesia is not an impoverished nation, but it has the creepy feeling of a Soviet nation, where you feel like everyone is watching their backs, pretending they aren’t.

According to Forbes they have are doing well.


8 posted on 12/09/2012 4:26:12 PM PST by mgist
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To: RicocheT
Indonesia also wisely invested in Mr Bill Clinton.

Several years ago, two vast reserves of extra-clean-burning coal were found. This coal would be very valuable as the globe looks to be ever-greener. Well, one of these reserves was found in Indonesia... the other, in Utah. In exchange for a few million in campaign contributions, Clinton just happened to declare some land in Utah to be "national parkland" that is off-limits to development. Coincidentally...

...but anyway, the point is, Indonesia is not poor, as others have noted above. At $1.1 Trilion, their GDP is similar to Canada's... and our $200 million is less than 0.02% of their GDP, and less than 0.3% of their $74 billion federal budget (of which almost half goes towards education and schools, supposedly).

That $200 million is bribe money, so that they will pay attention to us, since nobody fears or respects us anymore.

11 posted on 12/09/2012 4:46:21 PM PST by Teacher317 ('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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