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Can anybody call Hu Jintao and tell him to stop this nonsense in Kentucky?
@ixian 177485 wrote:
Hey Bud – Your writing here paints you as a typical arrogant white American who thinks the world owes you a favour. Grow up, your country has been raping the third world for the last century. Why do you think the USA has such a crappy reputation at the moment. Yes that’s right, your cow boy president and his cow boy policies.
You Guys consume 25% of the worlds resources and don’t give a fuck about any body else.
Just remember that the wheel is turning. Rome is not what it used to be.
I personly hope Obama gets in so that he can turn your country around, but I’m not sure if you can stop this run away train.
Apologies in advance for offending over sensitive readers.
What an ugly thing to write about someone you dont know.
1. I was not born in the USA.
2. Where I was born, I am not concidered white. Say I am a non white on my birth certificate and we were certainly treated as such.
3. I had relatives forced in interment camps during WW2 in the country I was born in.
I think your post was more rude then any post I have seen in here. I just gotta say to you and everyone else that hates this country, I think it is the best. What did we get back when we gave billions a few yrs ago for the tsomi (sorry for the spelling) victoms. I dont think the states got anything or asked for anything.
I also think people come to the USA because where they are from things are not as good.
I also think your post to me was filled with hate, and raceist remarks. People preach tollerance till they run into someone who doesnt agree with them.
I am soooooooooooo glad I am not you, or at least the you that appears in that post.
I didnt write anything hatefull like you just did, I just voiced my opine and it was different.
Honestly, that really was an ugly post, undeserving of anything I posted in here.
Why would anyone want to stay in a fourm when he dissagrees, he/she gets a reply like that one.
you were wrong dude for talking to me and about me like that. My remarks didnt warrent that from this fourm. But to be fair, I am an American now and because I am, I do believe you do have your right to call me any name or anything you want.
Bud
I just wanted to clarify when i said i agree ,it was not in reference to anything about you.i agree with you Guys consume 25% of the worlds resources .I even hate saying ‘you guys’ as it is just a bunch of guys who run your country and make the decisions plus the ones who drive gas guzzlers and buy million dollars homes run up credit cards another million then walk away
@ixian 177485 wrote:
You Guys consume 25% of the worlds resources and don’t give a fuck about any body else.
gonna suck for a lot of world economies when that 25% dries up.
@slotplayer 177644 wrote:
gonna suck for a lot of world economies when that 25% dries up.
or imagine how much the economies of the world would benefit when US wont be able to afford this “25% of consumption” anymore. all this abundance of products available all of a sudden…this will happen when/if the dollar collapses.
there are a lot of truths in what has been said about US negatives.
But i’d suggest you ask the folks in the former soviet republics if they’d rather be next to russia or the US, they’d choose the US. I suspect the folks in Tibet would feel that way about China. The notion that somehow the US is different than any other large, powerful country is pretty lame. Ask the folks in Darfur, chad, congo what the presence of China has done for them, and it would be either nothing or they made it worse.
It’s interesting how much hatred there is of the US (for non-gaming stuff) by people here who presumably make more money from US players than elsewhere. Happy to take the money despite the “horrors” brought on by US society. Guess that’s the same as the US not embargoing South Africa during apartheid or for supporting dictators around the world. If there is money to be made the US and apparently many critics here are happy to make it.
I think the USA is a great country and I’m sure the majority of the people are decent hard working folk, just like every where else in the world.
Just because somebody may be an African does not mean that they are half starved and have there hands held out for aid. Just because some one may be Russian doesn’t mean that they are communist atheists. Just because somebody is a United States citizen does not mean that they are loud mouthed arrogant sob’s.
Hope you get my point. I get really angry when people make silly remarks about what they think the rest of the world owes them or their country.
So, if I offended anybody :whoa:, please accept my apologies. :cheers:
@splinterfree 177645 wrote:
or imagine how much the economies of the world would benefit when US wont be able to afford this “25% of consumption” anymore. all this abundance of products available all of a sudden…this will happen when/if the dollar collapses.
how is an excess of goods and less customers to buy them going to benefit any economy? More likely than not it will cause super high unempolyment.
Like I said in an earlier post, keep plenty of cash on hand and not in a bank.
I wrote about this very problem facing the USA on my blog in 2004. I’m just too busy to keep up with it these days.
@AmCan 177649 wrote:
But i’d suggest you ask the folks in the former soviet republics if they’d rather be next to russia or the US, they’d choose the US. I suspect the folks in Tibet would feel that way about China. The notion that somehow the US is different than any other large, powerful country is pretty lame. Ask the folks in Darfur, chad, congo what the presence of China has done for them, and it would be either nothing or they made it worse.
Ask the folks in Iraq what the presence of Americans has really done to them in the last 5 years. That’s not a valid arguement. Nobody is putting US and China on the same level. I’m not even suggesting that Russia is better than US. Instead I’m painting an alternative picture to what you are used to seeing. That doesn’t make me anti-american.
@AmCan 177649 wrote:
It’s interesting how much hatred there is of the US (for non-gaming stuff) by people here who presumably make more money from US players than elsewhere. Happy to take the money despite the “horrors” brought on by US society. Guess that’s the same as the US not embargoing South Africa during apartheid or for supporting dictators around the world. If there is money to be made the US and apparently many critics here are happy to make it.
Its not hatred, its a different opinion. There are things that I can and will criticise, but this hardly makes me an “america hater”. America stands for a lot of things. Some of them are great things like freedom and individual rights, others are corporatism (essentially fascism) and double standards.
The thing is that US exerts a lot of influence all over the world (particularly on a cultural level). This means that americans affect how everyone else lives their life on the planet. As a consequence, foreigners begin to display interest in things that happen in US because these events have global reprecussions. So I don’t see why you can call me a hypocrate without you being one
lolLook, KY officials are hypocrates. Americans are hypocrates by openly hating muslims and arabs yet fully relying on their oil. US govt is blaming foreign governments for torture yet at the same time doing it (and not even condemning it!? wtf) in prisons in Cuba and supporting latin american governments heavily involved in torture and executions (start at pinochet and follow through with most anti-socialist leaders backed by US in latin american countries).
My point is that my truth is not better than yours and vice versa. Its just different. Difference in opinion doesn’t make me a US hater just as i dont think you are a Russian hater. So stop polarizing things into black and white and learn to live with shades of grey.
@slotplayer 177679 wrote:
how is an excess of goods and less customers to buy them going to benefit any economy? More likely than not it will cause super high unempolyment.
what it means is that without large american demand, there will be more goods remaining for the rest of the world (read china and india) to consume. Currently, US is borrowing money from countries like China to sustain its own consumption levels. Once China stops lending, and the dollar falls, US will simply not be able to afford to consume as much since its heavily relying on imports. This fall in consumption in US will be offset by growing consumption in developing countries.
As for the fall of dollar, obviously there will be global repercussions, but its not going to lead to super high unemployment across the world.
cheers.
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@splinterfree 177733 wrote:
Once China stops lending, and the dollar falls, US will simply not be able to afford to consume as much since its heavily relying on imports.
That’s my point, less demand means less production, less production means less jobs.
@splinterfree 177733 wrote:
what it means is that without large american demand, there will be more goods remaining for the rest of the world (read china and india) to consume.
You’re assuming that production levels will remain the same, does’t happen when a large customer stops buying. production actually declines.
“Toyota has had an unusual sales slump in the United States, which has become the largest market for its vehicles worldwide”. “Toyota’s sales were down 12% from a year earlier, far worse than the 3.3% decline forecast by Edmunds.”
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/01/news/companies/auto_sales/index.htm?postversion=2008080112@splinterfree 177733 wrote:
This fall in consumption in US will be offset by growing consumption in developing countries.
Another assumption that developing countries will make up the slack, they may but is there something stopping them from increasing consumption now? Is there a supply shortage?
@splinterfree 177733 wrote:
As for the fall of dollar, obviously there will be global repercussions, but its not going to lead to super high unemployment across the world.
economies are much more global now than ever. Since I just started earning as the UIGEA was passed I’d be interested in how much of an effect it had on established affiliate’s earnings.
