It might have worked had Bush not gone off on his Excellent Iraqi Adventure. The men and materiel siphoned off for that excess might have made a difference. Of course, it may have worked better to just beat the hell out of the place and left it.Wanna bet Karzai makes it to his plane alive in time after we do leave?
But really now, the war isn’t actually costing anything. Well sure, the expense is around $2 billion per week, but nobody is actually paying for it. Taxes haven’t gone up for instance, in fact they’ve gone down, and the expense goes on the deficit. And Cheney said deficits don’t matter, except maybe to the Chinese, America’s credit card company. And surely the Chinese can be trusted not to call the loans and bankrupt America, can they? So nothing to worry about.
I’ve seen him on Austrian TV a few times…I think on talks about alternative currencies like bitcoin. Unfortunately my German knowledge was wayyy insufficient for me to have followed them so I tuned off.Regarding this TEDx talk, I’m a little puzzled: he isn’t exactly saying anything much different what I thought money should represent….I shall have to watch this again with more care when I’m able.
I wasn’t entirely convinced by this. The banks that provide credit to companies, individuals or countries expect interest to be earned through the practical and profitable application of the monies into something productive. So they don’t loan herds but provide monies to buy a herd, that will produce offspring thus enabling the debtor to repay the loan capital along part of the profit realised which will pay off the interest. I agree that in many situations, especially in recent history, lending occurs which encourages pure speculation and perhaps that is when money is made out of thin air; and this speculative lending has led to the excessive over-indebtedness amongst debtors, enabling a vicious circle to develop and causing our recent woes (and China’s woes in the near future). I didn’t quite follow what he was trying to emphasis i.e. money’s roleDid it seem he was suggesting we return to the original intention of money?
Dtroutma about 10 years ago
^Apparently never, especially if there may be a profit to be made.
wjstuhr about 10 years ago
Alexander the Great said Afghanistan “is easy to march into, hard to march out of.”
lopaka about 10 years ago
Why are good Americans dying for this Azz?
Dtroutma about 10 years ago
Condi, Cheney, and Rummy’s guy is working out sooooo, well…
wiatr about 10 years ago
It might have worked had Bush not gone off on his Excellent Iraqi Adventure. The men and materiel siphoned off for that excess might have made a difference. Of course, it may have worked better to just beat the hell out of the place and left it.Wanna bet Karzai makes it to his plane alive in time after we do leave?
pirate227 about 10 years ago
Well this is certainly something is most definitely Bush’s fault. Oh, my mistake, it was Cheney calling the shots when the selected this loser.
evodevo Premium Member about 10 years ago
AND they operated in part out of … wait for it …. Germany.
louieglutz about 10 years ago
taliban,dope dealers, what difference does it make?
Gypsy8 about 10 years ago
But really now, the war isn’t actually costing anything. Well sure, the expense is around $2 billion per week, but nobody is actually paying for it. Taxes haven’t gone up for instance, in fact they’ve gone down, and the expense goes on the deficit. And Cheney said deficits don’t matter, except maybe to the Chinese, America’s credit card company. And surely the Chinese can be trusted not to call the loans and bankrupt America, can they? So nothing to worry about.
OmqR-IV.0 about 10 years ago
I’ve seen him on Austrian TV a few times…I think on talks about alternative currencies like bitcoin. Unfortunately my German knowledge was wayyy insufficient for me to have followed them so I tuned off.Regarding this TEDx talk, I’m a little puzzled: he isn’t exactly saying anything much different what I thought money should represent….I shall have to watch this again with more care when I’m able.
OmqR-IV.0 about 10 years ago
I wasn’t entirely convinced by this. The banks that provide credit to companies, individuals or countries expect interest to be earned through the practical and profitable application of the monies into something productive. So they don’t loan herds but provide monies to buy a herd, that will produce offspring thus enabling the debtor to repay the loan capital along part of the profit realised which will pay off the interest. I agree that in many situations, especially in recent history, lending occurs which encourages pure speculation and perhaps that is when money is made out of thin air; and this speculative lending has led to the excessive over-indebtedness amongst debtors, enabling a vicious circle to develop and causing our recent woes (and China’s woes in the near future). I didn’t quite follow what he was trying to emphasis i.e. money’s roleDid it seem he was suggesting we return to the original intention of money?