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#1 on the cutting block should be Israel.
#1 should be South Korea.
#1 on the cutting block should be Israel.
think how much money we would have here at home, if we quit subsidizing the rest of the World.
Good idea. America could be like the Worlds Pawn shop. --You want money, put your Country up as collateral, till you pay us back with interest.---I like it.If they ask for help and need help and we are able to help then we should help. But the consequence of asking for help should be annexation. Then they wouldn't have to ask again every few years.
Good idea. America could be like the Worlds Pawn shop. --You want money, put your Country up as collateral, till you pay us back with interest.---I like it.
Good idea. America could be like the Worlds Pawn shop. --You want money, put your Country up as collateral, till you pay us back with interest.---I like it.
It has potential.This is insane.
Haiti has nothing.
At least Japan has the quality of people and Saudi-Arabia has the oil, what does Haiti have ??
It has potential.
Make a nice vacation home right there--Annex Haiti.If we could get rid of the natives, I would agree.....
Cool, as I have been told, "If you have nothin, you have nothin to loose"---we should just move on.This is insane.
Haiti has nothing.
At least Japan has the quality of people and Saudi-Arabia has the oil, what does Haiti have ??
do you seriously think america is there to "rebuild" haiti. they are there to build a military presence to project u.s. "business interests".The rebuilding efforts of Haiti will be massive and will take "years".
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Yes we could, but can we really? Let's play this out. We're in a deep recession. Our government has now been spending money faster than ever and has committed 4 Trillion dollars in various forms in the past year. The US is still in two active Middle East occupations. We're printing money without much backing and we're in hock to China up to our ears and it's getting worse not better.
While International attention to Haiti right now is key and the devesationin Haiti is only now starting to be realized, how can the United States in our current economic condition pledge money we do not have to rebuild? We're not going to rebuild their dirt floor hovels with rusted tin roofs either. Not only that, an entire infrastructure of business has to be rebuilt; telecommunications, networks, roads, electricity, water systems, I mean the whole thing has to be done from the ground up.
My view here is we American's can't afford it, and while we'd like to just run up our debt to rebuild Haiti over the next 4-5 years and pledge hundreds of millions of dollars maybe billions of dollars (these people have to eat, have clean water, get medical care, get an education while the rebuilding is going on), I think it should be up to the American people, directly, to pledge money for Haiti. Not the government putting our country in deeper debt, but individuals who have the means to help can. How? One way is the IRS tax forms we get each and every year, a direct withdraw of money from an account of any amount of dollars can be submitted. That money goes directly to a management fund which spends the money for Haiti. Those who do not have the means or wish not to or already have donated, can opt out. Our government shouldn't spend the money, but we the people should if we can. And those American people will need to pledge often and for years to come.
Add to that list pretty much every country in Central America and Africa.
What if we didn't help Haiti? It would be hard to convince anybody that it had nothing to do with racism. It would be obvious.
We don't need that reputation.
Good idea. America could be like the Worlds Pawn shop. --You want money, put your Country up as collateral, till you pay us back with interest.---I like it.
What do any of the Caribbean islands have?This is insane.
Haiti has nothing.
At least Japan has the quality of people and Saudi-Arabia has the oil, what does Haiti have ??
I suppose China could say the same to us someday?:shock:
What do any of the Caribbean islands have?
It COULD have tourism dollars coming in, if their govt would go in that direction.
We don't need anything China has.....
We can make anything we want right here in the USA, just like we did prior to the last twenty years....
I will stilll take a Craftsman wrench over Chinese bust your knuckle crap any day.....
There are too many other nice places already up & running, why go to a third world ****hole?....
Of course Puerto Rico falls into that category, once you are past the fences....:doh
according to a google search, SOME sears craftmans tools are made in china, and other places overseas...
Not the ones I still have from 30 years ago.....
Try getting a year out of a Chinese wrench....
They''ll get it right when they figure out that rice has no role in the Bessemer process.....:lol: