A few bowls of Lucky Charms and Apple Jacks should put the world right back on course.

What does is this statement supposed to mean? What “formal” role do we play? I don’t see us imposing a mercantilist system or some type of banking/currency hegemony. I don’t recall treaties that give us any expanded powers beyond those of other nations. We don’t have state-owned industries or government-enforced monopolies (anymore), even with in our own borders. Even after the whole “blood for oil” meme, we still aren’t even buying Iraqi oil. In fact, we are tax subsidizing its refinement!

Contrary to what this warmed-over Marxist would have people believe, we exist in a global *market* economy, where nations are free to compete (and we out-compete them, even when we gave them better trade terms than they give us). And that is largely due to our informal role as the “world’s policeman,” something that we didn’t ask for, but we do anyway, because we believe that people have the right to freedom. Yeah, get all cynical if you want, but it was grain handouts during the Cold War that kept the Soviet people from starving, even as they fielded armies meant to invade Western Europe, which was kept safe, by defense subsidies from and a direct military presence of the US. It’s our carrier groups that keep world sea lanes open. It’s our military might that allows for the pretensions of international law to be respected by tin-pot dictators. It’s mostly our money that subsidizes the largely failed project called the UN. It’s our trade, as China’s largest trading partner, that has allowed their economy to grow and given their people a degree of economic and political freedom. And as Europe’s largest trading partner, it’s our money that allows them to continue to screw around with socialism.

Hell, if you want to bend over for the Russians and the Chinese, go ahead. Just be prepared to become a colony and tourist getaway once they plant their flag on your shores.

Also, you might want to make a toilet that works, the one on the space station is a piece of crap.

yeah, ya all only tourists in “Muzzieland”

Thank you for the tips

PS) don’t speak too loud, that frightens us

Lol! Pun intended?

The Democrats are a larger threat to the United States than Russia.

“the financial capabilities of Russia, China and OPEC countries and the potential use of their market access to exert financial leverage to political ends.“

The goal, of course, is to bankrupt the US by turning the dollar into ‘funny money’ then really turning serious attention to busting-our-chops.

The quote comes from the Annual Threat Assessment prepared for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence(PDF Warning; quote on PDF page 7)

RIGHT!

Pelosi,Reid, Durbin, Obama, Clinton, Murtha, Schemer, Syria, Iran, China, Russia, and Radical Islam are all on the same team.

DC just because the average Russian lives below the US Poverty line, don’t think they don’t have money. Some of their citizens are the richest in the world and they just so happen do work for the state ran oil and natural gas companies. This shit has been in work for a couple of years.

And we won’t see “tanks rolling” either. We’ll see natural gas and oil shipments held. We’ll see manipulation of the markets, possibly working to impose “energy trade credits” where nation’s won’t be able to buy oil, etc on the world market with their own money. We’ll see countries who coalesce around Russia and China, that offer them support for their initiatives, that work to block western Europe and the US, getting “favored nation” benefits while those that oppose them will get nailed with all kinds of crap.

And this is Stalinism, not Marxism. Ever since it fell 20 yrs. ago there has been a clandestine effort to bring it back, and here we have it.

Thanks a lot Liberals!! While we’ve been wringing our hands concerned about the caribou, the view from our beach house and what other people think of us, while imposing greater restrictions on our export and foreign trade capabilities. Others have been moving forward expanding, building, improving, and waiting for the day the scales tip their way.

Is today that day? I say it is unless we make a dramatic change…And QUICK. We’ve got maybe 10 years on the outside to fix and stop it. Otherwise….

Fuck this Medvedev idiot and his puppet master Putin. Huff and puff all you want. Russia and China are still third world countries. Every day they spent fucking around with Communism was a day more they fell behind in the world.

Steve in NC is right. We have MUCH more to fear from Dhimmicrats. Anybody else feeling like a siamese twin with your ‘other half’ holding a gun to his head?
The Dhimmi dumbfucks wanna commit murder/suicide and we’ve got *maybe* 10 years like Erik says.
There is one other thing… there really is no reason for us to be tolerating Europeans let alone have to bear watching our lib ‘other half’ try and imitate them either….

“And as Europe’s largest trading partner, it’s our money that allows them to continue to screw around with socialism.”

Quite right. Fuck ‘em.

Actually Europe is buying your enterprises and bring jobs to the poor americans

Marvelous.

Oh, and John Cunningham - right on, man.

c’est le retour du baton !

though with 1 € = 2 $ this is logic

Would change dramatically if we ceased our active participation in their defense and they were forced to participate in the world on their own.
They’re like kids playing dress up in mommy and daddy’s clothes. Comical.

now, your comment doesn’t concern France’s reality, but your famous Alliees à l’est rien de nouveau.
On the Atlantic front, we still wear our grand-pa boots : Grand-Charles était son nom

Just like Ford and GM owning multiple car companies and bringing jobs to you pour Europeans. It looks like you might need it; Europe ‘needs 75 years’ to catch US

From the article:

The Association of European Chambers of Commerce in Brussels warned that the transatlantic gap had widened yet further in the past five years by all key measures, despite the pledge by EU leaders at the 2000 Lisbon summit to transform Europe into the world’s “most dynamic knowledge-based economy” by the end of the decade.

The EU-wide umbrella group, known asEurochambres said the EU’s overall employment rate was still stuck at levels attained by the United States in 1978, chiefly due to an incentive structure that discourages women from working and prompts early retirement by those in their fifties.

It found that the European Union’s research and development levels were achieved by America as long ago as 1979, while the lag time on per capita income is 18 years.
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“It will take the EU until 2072 to reach US levels of income per capita, and then only if the EU income growth exceeds that of the US by 0.5pc,” the study said.
…

The unemployments rates are no more of 2005 :

ex for France ~9,xx in 2005, today ~7,xx
as ratio per worked hours, we have the highest productivity

http://atlanticreview.org/archives/588-Productivity.html

EU GDP is higher than the US

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29

1. Rate of incarceration: There are 2.2 million Americans in jail. That’s 738 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents. In France it is 9 times fewer (80). There is also a huge administration to cater to them. Some studies have shown that if the U.S. were to have France’s rate of incarceration, its unemployment rate would go up by 2%.

And here is a number to back that up, especially points #1 and #3: 86.7% of French males age 25 to 54 are employed. In the U.S., that number is lower, at 86.3%!

also,our students don’t work unlike in the US, though they are counted as unemployed

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8a3e56f2-aa48-11db-83b0-0000779e2340.html?nclick_check=1

It won’t certainly not take until 2072 to pass the US levels

no more accurate :

In private enterprises, retirement officially occurs at 61 years old for France, for Germany, its 65 to 67 years old ; though at each presidential mandate, new reforms are on board ; actually, the administrations jobs are on the grill, they will rejoin the private ones as far the number of worked years.

now, your comment doesn’t concern France’s reality, but your famous Alliees à l’est rien de nouveau.
On the Atlantic front, we still wear our grand-pa boots : Grand-Charles était son nom

Your brain on France.

I love ya gal and enjoy visiting your web page, but………..

You’re doing a bit of academic ’sleight of hand’ here. First you begin by comparing the EU GDP to US GDP. Not a problem. However, you start comparing France with the US and it starts getting “fuzzy”.

The EU is, according to the CIA World Factbook, a hybrid intergovernmental and supranational organization. Which is really hard to compare to any single country. They’re more like a trading block, the ‘benefits’ are not equally distributed and not really a representative democracy. I think it’d be better to compare it to NAFTA. But I digress.
The GDP of the EU is $14.45 trillion (2007 est.), the US GDP is $13.86 trillion (2007 est.) and France’s is $2.067 trillion (2007 est.). As far as per capita, the US leads with $46,000 (2007 est.), the EU with $32,900 (2007 est.) and France at $33,800 (2007 est.)-good on the French, they’re ahead of the EU as a whole.
The per capita numbers represents a measure of productivity. Which is calculated by purchasing power parity. Which you can see the US by far leads both the EU and France, and that’s even with us supporting a huge ‘penal administration’.
I’ve not found a total number of inmates for the EU, and I’m not going to research 27 countries for that information. However, we don’t have roving bands of gangs burning cars and demolishing personal property on a regular basis that go unpunished.
The unemployment rates, EU is 8.5% (2006 est.), US is 4.6% (2007 est.) and France 8% (2007 est.). Which does not include statistics for illegal immigrants as well.
Some other interesting statistic are: Roadways, EU total: 5,269,163 km , US total: 6,430,366 km and France total: 951,220 km. Total airports with paved runways, EU 1,991, US 5,143 and France 292.
We also have the most kick-ass, well trained, highly motivated and equipped military in the world. We drive hard and fast and fly the fuck everywhere we go. We work hard, play hard and sometimes we go too far and land our asses in jail. And as you have noted, if not for the US involvement in the ‘affairs’ of the world in the last century, we’d all be in sorry ass shape. So excuse the fuck outa me if I have pride in my country and can back it up with hard facts and not academic trickery. If that makes us ‘dicks’ then that’s what we are. And you know what, dicks fuck pussies and assholes…..

Considering the long-term projections they were making, three years is not that long. New data, of course, can change the picture, but quoting from from something that is only a few years old is not an invalid practice.

“…from an UK paper…”

Which was quoting a pan-European organization. That contention, even if correct, is entirely irrelevant.

“It is well known how the Brits are whining when it comes to EU social-liberal productivity, they are the ones that wanted badly to include the former east block and Turkey; that allows them to have a fluctuant working class with low and no secured wages.”

Absent of facts, figures, quotes, or specific examples, we have only your assertion. Moreover, your asserting motivations of others without any evidence.

“The unemployments rates are no more of 2005:

ex for France ~9,xx in 2005, today ~7,xx
as ratio per worked hours, we have the highest productivity”

France is, geographically, the size of an average US state, with a population of about 64.5 million people. That is a high population, placing, I imagine, quite a high percentage in urban areas, which might skew a higher percentage of the workforce toward service sector, which is where most productivity gains occurred.

“Rate of incarceration: There are 2.2 million Americans in jail. That’s 738 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents. In France it is 9 times fewer (80). There is also a huge administration to cater to them. Some studies have shown that if the U.S. were to have France’s rate of incarceration, its unemployment rate would go up by 2%.”

First, the comparison of incarceration rates is apples and oranges. EU countries typically have shorter sentences for comparable crimes; certain property crimes are punished with incarceration in the US, and there a difference between short-term jail time and long-term punitive jail sentences that that 2.2 million figure doesn’t take into account. Second, this is “thought experiment” to illustrate a point, apparently about how the US labor market is regulated through the penal system; hundreds of thousands of prisoners are not going to released at once and have no work. Thus, it has nothing to do with real world unemployment rates, which are measuring the percentage of *available workforce* which is unemployed.

“2. Long-term unemployment: In the U.S., people who have not asked for a job in the last 4 weeks are not counted. If they were, it would add 400,000 unemployed to the U.S. rolls. In France, they are counted.”

Are you saying people who have been unemployed for less than four weeks, or people who are unemployed, but have not requested a job? But assuming the latter, what does this prove? If they haven’t asked for a job in the last four weeks, then the reason may be that they have found a job. That difference is merely 400,000 who reported unemployment at some point, not that they are necessarily still unemployed. Without further information, such a difference seems to suggest that the way unemployment is monitored is also different, in addition to how it’s measured.

“The day-care situation: In France, it is free for children as young as 2-year old, and it is heavily subsidized for younger children. That allows mothers to work. But if they don’t find a job, they are counted on the unemployment rolls.”

Let me make an important point, outside of the discussion: It may be free to the person to whom it is being offered, but it is not free. Someone is being taxed to pay for it.

“In the U.S. on the other hand, because day-care is sometimes so expensive that a full-time job brings little more than the ability to pay for it, many mothers (or fathers, sometimes) decide to stop working for several years, until their kids are old enough to go to free school. Sometimes it is a life-style choice only, but often it is as much of an economic choice. Those mothers are not counted on the unemployment rolls, of course.”

With a two parent family, it would incredibly unusual, with the combined income of both, to not to be able to afford day care, even for lower income wage earners. In the case of a single parent family, with the relatively unregulated US labor market, the parent would usually take on a second part-time job to pay for it. I would say, most often, it is a life-style choice.

That is, right now, the result of a low dollar, which was caused by a number of factors, including the Fed readjusting the interest rate every time someone sneezed.

OK, though I can speak of what I know the best

(Im not an economist academic, but an Arts’, even a fancy’s )

Which was quoting a pan-European organization. That contention, even if correct, is entirely irrelevant.

ya don’t know the irrelevancy of EU stances, “a hue et à dia”, means that they fire at each others

Absent of facts, figures, quotes, or specific examples, we have only your assertion. Moreover, your asserting motivations of others without any evidence.

did you provide any ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/opinion/11krugman.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

http://www.il-ireland.com/il/qofl2008/

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/325.php?nid=&id=&pnt=325&lb=hmpg1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-507916/France-70bn-richer-Britain-overtaking-World-rich-list.html

http://international-trade-leaders.suite101.com/article.cfm/top_french_exports_imports

Really franchie… If you aren’t able to vet the ’sources’ you use even at a basic level don’t use them. As you say yourself, you are an “arts”. WTF are you doing arguing economics?
Using the first results google gives you (that you can read) as ‘proof’ is at best silly.

no, I digged them in a site that had the kind of discussion, rather EU oriented, (oops French’s),
sorry if I still trust my fellows for being irrelevant when it comes to the bashing seances

I’m still waiting for your moral justification of your palestinian sympathy and empathy and the murder it exacerbates…..

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j97/stars5501/shiri-1.jpg

How about it?

And how about you quit trying to find some absurd way to poke Americans “in the eye” (as you’ve said you enjoy), in this case about how much ‘better off’ France is than America.

Did I press the sensible button again ? then sorry

again :

deuxio, neither said that I supported the Pals in their attacks on Israel, I defy you to find a sentence that says so.

…

Quite right. Fuck ‘em. ????

Yeah. Your EU compatriots are big fans of ‘progressive’ economists…. Who didn’t know that.

No thoughts for Shiri there? You know,the girl murdered by the palis you feel sympathy for?

https://pat-dollard.com/2008/05/carter-israel-has-150-or-more-nukes/

very first post you say you’re also embarrassed the EU doesn’t support the pali cause and then later on you say your position is due to your empathy for the pali.
you acknowledge your moral relativity, even going so far at times to tell us all in your own way to ‘Imagine No Religion’.
what ARE you doing on a right of center mil blog girl? is it really as simple as getting to poke fun at America and its religion?

Nietzsche, Chapitre XV, (Ressentiment)

What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean?

Nietzsche chapitre XV

not answering questions as usual.
not gonna at least say that you feel empathy for Shiri?
you did as much for her murderers.
maybe you just took too much of your idol Nietzche’s “anaesthetic against pain through one’s emotions.””

Banks and investment banks whose health is crucial to the global financial system should operate under a unified regulatory framework with “appropriate requirements for capital and liquidity”, according to Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The Russian’s already have it all worked out…almost: Russia to draw up plans to make Moscow global financial hub

Plans for turning Russia’s capital into a global financial hub will be drawn up in the next few weeks and presented to the leadership, a presidential aide said on Sunday.

President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at the International Economic forum in St. Petersburg on Saturday, said that turning Moscow into a world financial center and the Russian ruble into a leading regional reserve currency are central to building a competitive financial system in the country.

Whata plan…let’er rip. This’ll work-out real well.

i’ll point out that franchie’s been a good sport about this and you’re being ungentlemanly. we may not agree with what she says, but she ’sticks it out’ and doesn’t do ‘guerrilla or drive-by posting’. i may not respect what she says, but i do respect her.

“i’ll point out that franchie’s been a good sport about this…”

good sport about what? making blogsport of murder? poking the silly Americans in the eye every chance she gets?

“… and you’re being ungentlemanly.”

Dude. ungentlemanly? I’d hoped it was worse actually.

“… we may not agree with what she says, but she ’sticks it out’…”

How so? I’ve asked numerous times for her reasoning behind her sympathy for murderers. No reply as of yet.

“…and doesn’t do ‘guerrilla or drive-by posting’.”

But you are mistaken in my view. She makes assertions all the time that she cannot and/or will not back up. Pretty much a definition of guerilla posting.

“… i may not respect what she says, but i do respect her.”

Good for you I suppose? I do not share that respect. It is difficult for me to imagine myself achieving that level of enlightenment with those that empathize with murder.

I think i’ll continue to be disrespectful of both the character of her content as well as the character that produces the content and continue to bring it to light whenever I see it. Thanks for the critique though.

thanks for the support

It’s not in my nature. You will not find a French doing so either, if the raisonable conditions are not gathered : intelligence, empathy for each others.

I know that you have got more “ecucation” than me ; but you can’t deny that I don’t know nothing in “philosophy” : that was my speciality in terminal year of high school, whereas I got the first price. (you’d probaly known that from my place where I have shown a class photo last year)

As I wrote also (in the lost post), you already brought the pic of that poor girl last year, this to make me wonder if you have a limited documentation in store, or if you have memory problems, as well as lunatic bi-polar derangements.

poking the silly Americans in the eye every chance she gets?

yeah, and your not poking the silly Frenchs ? no-no-no !

Dude. ungentlemanly? I’d hoped it was worse actually.

yeah, how comes that “Monsieur” can’t admit that he spies my place since last year, certainly not because of the political ideas I spread there. LMAO

No reply as of yet.

yeah ? many times, though there are sentences that you can’t read because their anti-thesis is carved in your brain.

des dizaines et des cent fois ne trouveront pas grâce à ta vindicte

But you are mistaken in my view. She makes assertions all the time that she cannot and/or will not back up. Pretty much a definition of guerilla posting.

Nope, these are because of your falsh allegations, derison and teasings become part of the exchange.

Didn’t you say that you go on the liberal sites, and that teasing them is your main untertainment ?

Good for you I suppose? I do not share that respect. It is difficult for me to imagine myself achieving that level of enlightenment with those that empathize with murder.

putain, I wouldn’t like to be one of your students, Professor Zebulon, what a boring fellow you are

I think i’ll continue to be disrespectful of both the character of her content as well as the character that produces the content and continue to bring it to light whenever I see it.

Yeah, Darling, don’t forget that we are entitled to fight each others until the end of our lifes

unless the scorpion you are is biting your consciousness.

it is obvious that you hold yourself in high regard but the reasons you would do that escapes me… it likely is simply the easiest way for you to continue the self serving mental masturbation you believe to be serious thought.

good luck with that.

no, just retablishing some facts, because it doesn’t disturb you to paint me with falsh qualities

“but the reasons you would do that escapes me”

the truth

it likely is simply the easiest way for you to continue the self serving mental masturbation you believe to be serious thought.

calling it mental masturbation meams you don’t have a clue in psychology and that you can’t understand people apart those of your fine circle

The US Unemployment rate is much higher than 5.5%

The $ is in free fall.

The first time in history our trade deficit exceeds our Industrial Production.

The 70% of the jobs that we are creating monthly are service industry jobs.

Actually we have lost jobs the last three months.

Come on guys the US economy is NOT in good shape.

America needs to step up and stop resting on our past achievements. We can’t all be Dr’s Lawyers Stock Brokers and Investment Bankers. We need REAL jobs paying REAL wages.

I understand that a lot of “deviations” come from my side ; the “bashing” perception that I was in used to get in the past few years on different anti-french places induced my “guerilla” attitude and may-be inflated my ego expression, which is apparently natural by me.

I’ll try to amend my comportment