http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&t ... d&cat=Iraq

spending 6-8 billion dollars a month in Afghanistan and Iraq and bankrupting the country, losing 1200 or so people, maybe 75000 Iraqis, pissing off the rest of the world, and dubya still can't wipe that smirk off his friggin face.

hey, he's a happy go lucky guy.

and time's monkey of the year.

but don't we all feel safer? i mean, except for pregnant women, they're obviously no safer, but i'm safer, right?

there was this investment banker on npr yesterday talking about how much of this economy is basically founded on so much debt that the whole bubble may burst fairly soon.

happy new year

Move your retirement plans to Asian markets aka China.

this guy said a lot of foreign investors basically own this country and if they see the risk getting too high they are going to move to start investing in the EU

It's OK, Jesus will take care of everything.

EU's as volatile as the US currently. Asian markets recently climbed out of a recession. Our Chinese imports are equaling some $33 trillion and our China exports equaling $2 trillion it doesn't take much to see that China will eventually dominate world trade and very soon.

cool - the company I work for s banking on China big time.

Not cool. China is a human rights disaster. Manufacturing/factory workers are lucky if they bring home $50 a month and they work 13+ hours a day 7 days a week.

then we need to pressure them (along with 100 other countries) to implement reforms. that won't stop us from expanding there, or in India, eastern europe, brazil, south east asia sorry to say. we need inexpensive labor and they need jobs.

Exactly, the floodgates have opened.

Edit: Quality of life in the US will decrease dramatically in the next 10 years. Also, middle class will eventually be nonexistent.

As long as they stay away from Kansas, they're fine.

My co-worker is being mobilized to go to Iraq(Marine reserves). About 120 miles outside of Baghdad, El Saad I believe. She leaves in a month.

She read this earlier on CNN and looked at me with a straight face and said "I'm gonna be alright aren't I?"

I told her she was going to be fine and not to worry. Fact is, no one is safe over there. The Mosul base is over 200 miles from Baghdad.

Fuck Bush for never having to truly know what grief he has wrecked upon over 1200 families.

my friend is in fallujah right now w/ the army.

G-Dub's press conference pre-empted Ellen yesterday, which I only get to watch two days a week (due to sleeping from the job the other 3 days) and I was so angry. And he kept talking about the war, then giggling and I just wanted to punch him. Hard. A lot of the kids from the Marine ROTC program at ISU used to be doorguys at the bar I frequent and they're all over in VI getting trained to blow up people and die over in Iraq. What a freakin' bummer. I did my part for the economy by doing all my shopping yesterday. Hopefully, overdrawing my account helped some stock holder who will later serve 2 months in a blue-collar prison. I'm feeling a bit down here today.

Don't make him negotiate with himself!

just keep reading your bibles and everything will be fine. happy happy bliss bliss.

i just can't get over it, i can't understand america. everything we are doing right now is retarded, so freaking retarded and it'll all going to bite us in the ass when world war III starts.

But our multi-billion dollar 'star wars' multi-nuclear warhead defense system will save us just like Jesus.

OMGILOVESTARWARS!!!! I'm gonna enlist right now so I am among the first to get a lightsaber. Cadet Jesswalker, reporting for duty!!

Wouldn't it be nice if the EU became the dominent Western economy for a while and the U.S. settled down into boring old second place?

I believe just recently the EU over took the USA as the world's most powerful economy.

I read that from a creditable source. But I don't really know anything about economics except I never seem to have any money.