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we are not made of fucking money. what are they going to do? increase the shit out of our taxes? YOUR NORMAL 9 to 5er doesnt need that. Your normal 5 day/week 40 hours/week guy can barely make ends meet. "ZOMGMG HAVE THE GOVERNMENTS PRINT MORE MONEY BILLS AND BUY POWERUPS" the double 'mgmg' displays an echo effect since cool edit doesnt work on text. |
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I just cant take this anti american shit anymore. Have some fucking respect for the citizens on this board that cant do a damn thing about it. I have seen this kind of shit for too long here. Its fucking rediculous. |
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No- what the majority of the members of xlt don't understand is finance. Money is a relative term. There are parts of alabama that look like Bangladesh after a peak monsoon and it happened overnight. It has absolutely nothing to do with the war- this is almost as random as the tsunami. To me the real problem is not wether we can respond to this disaster, but how. If we rebuild New Orleans on the same ground it will be like pissing into the wind. |
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That sounded kind of cold and dickish coming after Virginpusher's comment. I guess I'm just trying to say that a country as rich as the Us should plan ahead a bit more for disasters rather than spending any excess money on something that a great deal of citizens opposed, and screwing itself over when it really needs the money to protect its citizens. |
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This i can agree with. We shouldnt rebuild because chances are its just gonna happen again. It would be a waste of all the cash it would take. |
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Disasters, education, worrying about our own poor. Seriously all our govt cares about is foreign affairs. The whole time the general populous declines education wise and suffers overall. |
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yes, exactly. |
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It sucks because this wasnt what our founding fathers had in mind. *sigh* I just dont care anymore about any of this. everyone is pissing this world away. ----------------------------------------- Sorry for getting short in this thread. It is uncharacteristic of me. I am struggling with a lot of tension over here and i didnt mean to take out my internal agressions like that. It was not very mature of me. Sorry. Regards, Brian |
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what you said the other day, about there being a lot of tension in the world, i was thinking about this earlier and it just reminds me of history class, learning about the two 'great' wars, stalinism, the cold war, etc... has the world always been this way? |
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Let the first country with the perfect government cast the first stone..... Really if you want to know what pisses me off the most about Dub-ya's response to this whole thing, its his total lack of concrete action. Its just like 9-11. He's gonna sit back and let the tragedy unfolld and let everyone else make the tough decisions. I wouldn't be suprised if in 3 months he decides to invade Canada just to distract the American public from the fact that it now costs us $100 to fill up our SUV's. Don't judge the poor folks of Alabama and New Orleans marinating in their own effluvia . |
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give him a break! he had to cut his holdiay short! :P |
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Did he? I hadn't noticed. I like him better 'down on the ranch'- He's farther away from the button. |
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HAVE THE GOVERNMENTS PRINT MORE MONEY BILLS AND BUY POWERUPS I agree that the Us shouldn't just pull money out of thin air and screw itself economically, but the Iraq war kind of depended on such a thing. It's not like the Us had a special 'rainy day war fund' (at least I hope not) and spent it all, and now there's only a few cents left to save its citizens. I wish that the Us would gauge its money and be able to defend itself, but when a horrible thing happens and the country does need help, I'd like to think that the rest of the world would want to. But the rest of the world would want the Us to do the same, which seems considerably less possible if the country can't solve its own horrible problems even with their relative wealthiness. Also, there are plenty of people dying from starvation daily, and that is a preventable thing, not a natural disaster. I'm not trying to downplay what has happened in the Us, I'm just trying to point out that wealthy nations seem to close often their eyes to human suffering unless it's something loud and tangible that caused it. |
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Maybe its the fact that I understand this but i live here so its like a case of "guilt based on association" or something. I seriously need a drink. |
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"I wouldn't be suprised if in 3 months he decides to invade Canada just to distract the American public from the fact that it now costs us $100 to fill up our SUV's. " that almost made me laugh. thanks! :) :D |
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"I wouldn't be suprised if in 3 months he decides to invade Canada just to distract the American public from the fact that it now costs us $100 to fill up our SUV's. " that almost made me laugh. thanks! :) :D |
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This junk board is stutter crapping my posts |
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I really admire Americans who, seeing hundreds of unfair comments against their folk on messageboards, even filled with decent people like this one, retain patience and don't burst into cursing and rants. People can be really chauvinistic if it concerns Americans and noone will say a word. I dislike the majority of my compatriots, but I don't think I could stand reading how fat, stupid or gun-loving they are everyday. Especially if this were the words of people I was supposed to like. So, Virginpusher, don't feel bad. Your feelings are understandable. Though in this partticular thread there was no "God, Americans are so stupid" comment. Maybe because several thousands of them just died. |
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Am I the most understanding person alive or what?!?! |
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*hugs* its all the same nowadays. heck i dont even know anymore.... |
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Actually, Redrum called us "fucking sheep," which I would assume means the same. |
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i bet theyre all fucking thinking they shouldve paid attention at swimming class. as if theyre arent enough americans already. so what, boo hoo. |
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there was a hurricane!?! |
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the thing that pisses me off about it is that, yes indeed, this has been a tragedy, 100s dead, etc. but they knew it was coming! for years, people have known if new orleans was hit with a hurricane class 4 or 5 theyd be fucked, yet they did nothing to prevent it. and those people, who died, its sad, but they deserved it! people were ordered well in advance to evacuate, yet they just decided to sit around and thought they could wait it out.yerg. |
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