FredHayek wrote: VL? What are we going to steal? Their wind? Their sunlight?
lol me and you won't get any of it...And there are always valuable things under the ground. I remember watching an NBA game, Bill Walton was calling it and he was talking about an African player who came from a suprisingly peacefull prosperous part of Africa, a moden metropolitian city somewhere over there. His father was a doctor and his mom was a college proffeser or something.. and they were quite well off...Then Walton says its because their is no oil under the ground there..I laughed because he's spot on. I'm sure it went over most peoples heads, but I love it when people on air go off the plantation like that- I'm sure NBC told him to shut the F up about global politics..
FredHayek wrote: VL? What are we going to steal? Their wind? Their sunlight?
lol me and you won't get any of it...And there are always valuable things under the ground. I remember watching an NBA game, Bill Walton was calling it and he was talking about an African player who came from a suprisingly peacefull prosperous part of Africa, a moden metropolitian city somewhere over there. His father was a doctor and his mom was a college proffeser or something.. and they were quite well off...Then Walton says its because their is no oil under the ground there..I laughed because he's spot on. I'm sure it went over most peoples heads, but I love it when people on air go off the plantation like that- I'm sure NBC told him to shut the F up about global politics..
We no longer live in the 60's VL. The biggest oil companies are nationlized firms like Chavez's Citgo and Mexico's Pemex. Libyan oil? No American oil companies were awarded leases by the new government. Iraq also has no American oil companies working there. You really need to get to other countries and stop getting your foreign affairs knowledge from bad druggie announcers like Bill Walton.
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FredHayek wrote: Actually most US aid requires that American products be bought as a percentage of the contract. Why Caterpillar tractors bulldoze Palestinian homes and the Palestinian police use Colt M-16's.
In this case, 100% of the loans are spent on US products, manufactured in the US, by US workers.
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FredHayek wrote: We no longer live in the 60's VL. The biggest oil companies are nationlized firms like Chavez's Citgo and Mexico's Pemex. Libyan oil? No American oil companies were awarded leases by the new government. Iraq also has no American oil companies working there. You really need to get to other countries and stop getting your foreign affairs knowledge from bad druggie announcers like Bill Walton.
Ha ha ha ha You don't think Iraq was about oil?
Read the link I posted Fred..Its a consortium of multi national corporations with interests in the region- They are all feeding at the trough..I don't know what they want in those asian countries but I know for dam sure that were arent doing any of this out of the goodness of our hearts.. lol
FredHayek wrote: Actually most US aid requires that American products be bought as a percentage of the contract. Why Caterpillar tractors bulldoze Palestinian homes and the Palestinian police use Colt M-16's.
In this case, 100% of the loans are spent on US products, manufactured in the US, by US workers.
Don't try to make this sound like a good thing..Obama is not behind this- He's a front man in this deal..This is what he had to do in order to get elected, notice how quick banks and corporate interests get returns on their investments in Obama while we the people wait around for worthless window dressing legistlation to get stalled in washington..
