Re: Dissing the Dalai Lama

     To add to that.
     I just read that about a fourth of homeowners owe more on their
mortgages than the house is worth.   That will increase if interest
rates rise.
    California is broke.  Michigan is close, I guess.
  And our fearful leaders in Washington are creating money out of thin
air.

I was reading an article about the "new poor", the people who have lost
their jobs and won't find another.  One 57 year old woman was going to a
food bank, and was thankful that this week there were no pinto beans.  
She didn't have any idea how to cook pinto beans.  57 years old, and she
had 20 lbs of pinto beans at home with no idea what to do with them.  
Anybody that stupid deserves to go hungry.  

The only reason the dollar hasn't crashed already is that we are living
on the charity of other countries.  China is single handedly holding up
the value of the dollar by refusing to let the Renminbi float.  If they
are nice guys, they will just raise the Yuan slowly until we balance our
trade with them.  If they are not nice guys, they will start a war to
drive us out of the Far East.  All they would have to do to deprive us
of the resources to fight a war is dump dollars and US bonds on the
market, driving the value of the dollar to nothing and making it
impossible for the USA to finance a war.  They would whip our a.ses.  We
would be lucky not to end up a conquered nation.  At the least, we would
end up a second rate nation like Spain, making debt payments to the
Chinese for a century.  

The US economy is not strong.  It's a basket case.  

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Right on Larry!

Why do you say the (US?) dollar is going to crash?  It hasn't so far and the
US seems to be a basket case if compared to other economies.  Our economy is
strong and if you looked at the situation of both our countrys, our dollar
should be higher than that of the US dollar but it isn't and never has been.

But I agree with you on the situation with oil.  It's really only a matter
of time before that becomes a major issue and if the US is still using so
much of it, that could be a real problem soon rather than later.

Food costs less than 10% of average US income.  Historically, the
average is a little over 30%.  Certainly, there would have to be some
adjustments in lifestyles.  For one thing, people would have to learn to
cook again.  

Taxing gasoline to $8 a gallon would just anticipate what is going to
happen anyway.  The dollar is going to crash.  Crude oil will cost over
$400 a barrel.  When the crash hits, it's going to be really ugly.  The
whole country would be better off if it started weaning itself from oil
imports right now.  

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Hope you like to eat rocks Larry, cause once fuel reaches $8 the cost of
food will be beyond the reach of average Americans.  So will the price
of everything else that depends on transport anywhere in the USA.
Likewise those who still heat with oil will get mighty cold during the
winter.

Does anyone really care how much the Dali Lama pays for cigarettes?  

This moron seems to think the only way to feed his addiction is to buy
tobacco.  It apparently hasn't occurred to him that tobacco is a PLANT,
that is legal to grow in all 50 states.  Burley will make a crop
anywhere.

Personally, I favor a straight carbon tax instead of that moronic cap
and trade.  Cap and trade is too easy to game.  Just tax crude oil so
gas sells for $3 a gallon, and increase the tax $0.50 a year for 10
years.  As soon as people know gas will cost $8 a gallon in 2020, they
will make some conservation decisions.  Meanwhile, the revenues will do
a lot to bring down the budget deficit.  

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any remarks from the triangle.general resident obama lover?

Obama meets him in the Map Room, not the Oval Office, and when the
meeting is over, ushers him out the BACK DOOR of the White House.

The "honeymoon" is over. Whereas decent people everywhere have been
giving this President the benefit of the doubt, continuing to like the
man, despite despising his agenda, he has now made any further such
affection difficult to the point of being humanly impossible.

Is is hard to imagine what sort of an "American" could possibly
countenance such disgraceful, spineless kow-towing to the forces of
oppression and tyranny in this world.  If the United States is not all
about stepping forward against just that, then the United States is
about nothing.

It is embarrassing to have such a toady, such an utter quisling as the
chief representative of this country, and the cheeks of every American
should be burning with shame.

Thankfully, now that it is possible to see the complete lack of
substance in Obama the man, there should no longer be any question
about his policies and his agenda: there is nothing respectable or
responsible or brave or basically American about any of it.

The cost of a pack of cigarettes has gone up, not only double, but
that again by half to fund this tyrant's "healthcare" agenda, and it
is driving the working class into poverty and crime. Is it this which
has the Tea Party people comparing him to Hitler? Or is it his
intention to decide for people what they will have under the hoods of
their pickup trucks?  Will he make it impossible for your average
country dweller to drive home with a load of fire-wood, without
burning up his engine, or to drive in the mountains, plow the snow
from a long driveway?

He's poking his nose into the people's business way in deep where a
spoiled little city boy's nose doesn't belong.

Yup. The honeymoon is OVER!
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