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It would be better if it was Maryland instead, asshole.

What do you have against Maryland? ...... :)

I was born (Baltimore, Mercy Hospital, 1947) and raised in Maryland until I became 18 years old and fled. Now I live in Idaho and California. If I could pick a spot to wipe from the face of the earth, in collusion with the Chinese Commies, it would be Maryland, which has become the District of Columbia Greater Metropolitan Area. It's nothing like what I knew as a child. It's suburban sprawl, a megapolis, artificial and gross beyond description. I pity you.

I couldn't agree with you more. Terrible traffic, congestion, and too many toothless watermen driving 30 mph and clogging up the roads.

Not so dear, not so - didn't those mighty world powers Tonga and Tuvaly back you up? Never mind, you clowns are still floundering around in there. Why don't you learn from your mistakes - god knows there have been enough of them. Next time you amateurs stumble in where you are neither wanted nor needed perhaps your political masters will have an exit strategy. That would be a first for you, wouldn't it dear.

Now you're claiming to be Chinese? You really are weird Sable.

And what do you think the rest of the world would be doing during all this?

You never really were clued up to reality, were you.

You never were short of sifile material, were you.

The Chinese economic engine has neen running in high gear for more than a decade - long before the current US administration.

I was there for three weeks in 1998 and witnessed it happening. I was there again last year and saw the continuing progress since 1998.

You cannot stop it, and you cannot blame the current administration.

To do so just proves you bias and ignorance.

We should not be financing our huge deficits by borrowing from the Chinese. As a matter of fact, now that I think about it, we shouldn't have huge deficits. Is it fair to blame the current administration and the Republican Congress for that? Or is it all Bill Clinton's fault? :-)

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Actually, I believe the economists say "neither". That this has been going on for a good 50 years.

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Wing nuts talk about the "tax and spend Democrats." They don't talk much about the "spend and spend" Republicans.

When Clinton left office there was a very substantial budget surplus, and there were projected surpluses "as far as the eye could see." This led Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to worry that our biggest danger was that we'd pay the national debt down TOO FAST! Yep, our biggest problem was that we'd be up to our asses in ice cream.

Well, that fat tax cut for the wealthy and the ongoing cost of the Iraq Quagmire fixed that problem.

This huge deficit, which is growing more huge all the time, is a big deal. It's unsustainable. If this keeps up we will have to devalue our currency in the not-too-distant future, and then the shit will hit the fan. In the meantime, we're giving China political leverage because they're keeping us afloat.

One side taxes and spends and the other side creates huge welfare programs, and support the notion that people should not take responsibility for themselves. Two sides of the same coin.

Maybe it's because I am more of an optimist. Things tend to balance out one way or another. The pendulum swings both ways. I much prefer to hold that view, the to be forever worried about gloom and doom around the corner.

I figure, sooner or later, we're going to see a major epidemic, or a major war, or some other means by which nature tends to balance out the populations, and allow things to renew. I'll deal with that when the time comes. Meanwhile, I'm going to enjoy my life whether times are lean of plenty.

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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:04:54 -0700, Spike wrote something wonderfully witty:

I'm an optimist as well, I know everything is going to be all F'ed up. Never will everybody be happy. And last but not least, things will go wrong. Of this I am positive.