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popeye1250 -> RE: McCain "alarmingly bad" w/ Foreign Policy (8/24/2008 12:30:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
What a bunch of crap!
Who cares about our "reputation?"
If McCain is a novice on foreign affairs that's a plus, I don't want my president spending much time on that at all!
It's funny, foreign countries "like" whichever candidate they think they'll be able to get the most Taxpayer dollars out of! And this time around that's Obama and Biden.
Who cares what foreign countries "think" anyway?
Fuck 'em!
Uh, well, I like my Presidential candidates to have a bit more knowledge than just being able to spell "foreign". We have these weird things called "Treaties" and "Trade Agreements" with other nations that, properly understood and negotiated, would/could benefit us. Instead, the Great Unwashed Nascar Gomers like to vote for "no gnu taxes!" and "give me guns!" and "Oh, no! Saddam has a nuke buried under the post office in Dumbass Springs, Idaho! We need to invade and make the Middle East safe for Halliburton!"
While all the time the Walton family of Über-patriots can't get Chinese garbage shipped here fast enough to sell to the soccor-mom bimbos who can't understand why their hubby lost his job at the plant, and why the schools are falling apart because there isn't any money to pay teachers with because Wallyworld got a sweetheart deal of NO TAXES! just for building another milk 'em and bilk 'em shitty cheap goods depot. Huuu-aaaahhhh!
There's a whole generation or two of Murkins who have no idea how well hand-made soap lathers (I know; I make soap; and I sell what I make very quickly. I'm back-ordered, in fact (I think I gave GT some. Or maybe not, I don't remember))) or what a well-crafted wooden toy looks like (yep, Mr Smith the craftsman couldn't compete against THE STORE WHAT PAID NO TAXES). Craftsmanship is going by the wayside (the US used to make fairly good quality stuff, almost as good as Germany)
To answer your question, I CARE about our reputation. I don't want to see our skills get any more under-utilized because shit-head Wall Street punks who have never dirtied their hands diss some CEO who actually kept a few people on rather than sending the jobs to Watchafuckincallit, Malaysia and subsequently missed the quarterly Ebitda by 0.008%. Fuck that.
I thought you were an American.
Hippie, I mostly agree with you there.
But you're talking about "Trade", not "foreign policy" which under every administration since Carter has been a disaster for the U.S.
We need to get o-u-t of all of the trade agreements we're in now!
Our trade agreements should be very spartan and shouldn't be decided by Walmart or any other corporation!
We need to get manufacturing back in the U.S.!
I'm tired of having no choice in stores but to buy something that's made in China, Thailand or Honduras, that's why I don't buy anymore.
You won't get any argument from me on that.
As for "foreign policy" I don't want my govt. getting us involved in the problems of foreign countries!
It is time that we end those "foreign aid" programs not increase them!
Obama has said publically that he wants to "double foreign aid!"
That's nothing but global socialism and it's stealing U.S. Taxpayer Dollars!
That money should be returned to the Taxpayers to whom it rightly belongs!
Then if someone wants to donate their own funds to a foreign country or charity they can do it.
I don't want my govt doing it "for" me and I don't want them in the "foreign aid business!"
There are too many lawyers, lobbyists, corporations and others in Washington who are making tremendous amounts of money from "foreign aid."
And Obama wants to double foreign aid?
How can he (not) know where all that money is going?
There are currently more than 130 countries on foreign aid, many of them since the 1940's!
Every country in the Carribean is getting foreign aid!!!
This needs to *end!*
I don't mind us helping out like after the tsunami in 2005 but to have ongoing "foreign aid" programs in place that are making so many beauocrats rich is insane!
We need to *Outlaw* any type of lobbyists!
Also, Obama has stated publically that he would send our Troops to Darfur!!!
What the hell is that all about?
That has absolutely nothing to do with the U.S.!
Someone needs to explain the job title of "president of the U.S." to him!
Does he think he's going to be an "Emporer" or something?
How can anyone who wants our Troops out of Iraq then want to put them in Darfur? Talk about *Imperialism!*
We've had Troops in Japan and S. Korea since the 40's and 50's!
It's time to bring them home and put them on the Mexican border where they're *needed!*
Obama hasn't said anything about what he's going to do for the U.S. with the exception of some vague slogan about " having an aggressive opportunity agenda for America."
WTF does that mean?
Clinton did the same thing with his, "Building a bridge to the 21st century."
He didn't build too many bridges in Minnisotta though, did he?
WhoTF writes that shit???
Obama wants more foreign aid, more Troops in foreign countries, and people try to say that McCain would just be an extension of Bush???
I'm tired of my Troops dying in foreign countries!
We need to stop all this shit!
I don't want to continue all this crap but Obama wants to expand it!
Our govt. is doing a lot of things that it *shouldn't* be doing!
If Obama said he was going to stop all foreign aid programs what do you think foreigners would be saying about him then?
They just want our fuckin' money!
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