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There is plenty of blame to go around, but bin Laden shouldn't get much compared to Greenspan and Bernanke. And the easy money goes back to the Asian financial crisis of 1997. The central bankers have shown themselves unworthy of their power ever since.
#2
If the $1.3 trillion spent on the war(s) since 2001 can be blamed for making the economy sick, what has the $4.5 trillion of deficit spending over the last three years done? Let's treat the patient's hemorrhage with leeches - once all his blood is gone the bleeding will stop!
#4
Congress did (with the help of Presidents, what bin Laden could only dream of doing, and that is to destroy the economy by deficit spending. So who is the bigger threat to our existence as a nation? When push comes to shove?
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
09/09/2011 12:40 Comments ||
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So who is the bigger threat to our existence as a nation? The USA is its own worst enemy. Pogo said it even better.
Posted by: Barbara ||
09/09/2011 14:54 Comments ||
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"Did Bin Laden trigger the financial meltdown?"
No - Soros did.
Posted by: Barbara ||
09/09/2011 15:12 Comments ||
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Greenspan, Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner, Frank, Dodd, Bubba Clinton, etc., etc., etc. The bubble was a long time expanding. It started way before 9/11. There were an awful lot of people who just had to know the status quo was not sustainable and that sooner or later the bubble would have to pop. None of them was bin Laden.
#9
The hell of it is that our financial problems will make waging the WOT even more difficult. At what point does that kind of malfeasance become treason?
#10
please be clear on the "Frank" allusions. He is not a member of the Army of Frank (AOF). We don't practice DADT for flaming criminal liars. He was discharged, in all sense of the word
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/09/2011 20:07 Comments ||
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At what point does that kind of malfeasance become treason?
Who cares? Malfeasance is sooooo much easier to prove. Like sending mafioso to jail for tax evasion.
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The US + its way of life is ultimately in an existential, decades-n-generations long struggle wid Radical Islam + aligned, as the Islamist Jihad is GLOBAL/UNIVERSAL in scope, + is waging said struggle wid a Volunteer Army + a free-market national, global economy not mobilized for such a war.
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT OUR DEBT, DEFICIT PROBS IS BAD, BUT N-O-T THE WORST IN THE FREE = ENTIRE WORLD.
#3
China's bet that they can continue to scoop up every little bit of manufacturing the politicians in the US export... but that the US general public will always have the money to buy the stuff they make. And they don't seem to have a plan B.
A useful round-up by blogger Hotair, and the comment thread is worth scanning -- one commenter mentioned it would be a good time for people with a concealed carry license to do so, in case something happened in their vicinity. Moved to Opinion because it is a blog post.
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The day after 911, there were reports of 10,000 Paks trying to flee the US. We should have helped every last Pak get on a container vessel.
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Eohippus Phater7165, a lot of those Pakistanis went home, a lot went to Canada. NPR had a big report at the time about the poor darlings suffering as they sat in airports and in cars in long lines at the Canadian border crossings. It wasn't just Pakistanis, either-- if you'll recall all Muslim men aged eighteen and over had to register that they were here legally...and so very many were't. An awful lot of people went home, taking their families with them.
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Actually there was an overreaction by the usual suspects of Anti-Americans who painted the whole as nothing more than a bunch of xenophobes. How about shoving back into their faces their own deep bigotry ten years later.
It is something to have gone 10 years without an Islamic attack of similarly gigantic proportions to those of Sept. 11, 2001, but it is not enough. That's because the decade we look back on is marked by a specifically Islamic brand of security from jihad. It was a security bought by the Bush and Obama administrations' policies of appeasement based in apology for, and irrational denial of, Islam's war doctrine, its anti-liberty laws and its non-Western customs. As a result of this policy of appeasement -- submission -- we now stand poised on the brink of a golden age.
Tragically for freedom of speech, conscience and equality before the law, however, it is an Islamic golden age. It's not just the post-9/11 rush into Western society of Islamic tenets and traditions on everything from law to finance to diet that has heralded this golden age, although that's part of it. More important is the fact that our central institutions have actively primed themselves for it, having absorbed and implemented the central codes of Islam in the years since the 9/11 attacks, exactly as the jihadists hoped and schemed.
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