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By snakeoil
#95469
This is a disturbing article. When I think of what China is doing compared to our own government fighting and tearing each other up over petty ideals I begin to wonder about America's future. I can't begin to accept that we are a has-been. If you read this entire article you should spend some4 time thinking about where we are heading and where we should be heading.
China is setting themselves up to be the friend of the downtrodden. We've seen it before: money can buy a lot of friends.

http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/10 ... ef=d-river" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
By sillydaddy
#95471
President Trump wants to make America great again.....
We can help..
Let's start by telling the niggers to stand on their own two feet during the National anthem...
And don't gay it up by linking arms...man up! :o
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By namngulfvet
#95478
snakeoil wrote:This is a disturbing article. When I think of what China is doing compared to our own government fighting and tearing each other up over petty ideals I begin to wonder about America's future. I can't begin to accept that we are a has-been. If you read this entire article you should spend some4 time thinking about where we are heading and where we should be heading.
China is setting themselves up to be the friend of the downtrodden. We've seen it before: money can buy a lot of friends.

http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/10 ... ef=d-river" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
And not one Democrat wants to reach across that isl to help. Dems want Socialism so bad they can taste it. Look at the destruction they continue to create. Dems want high taxes so they create a dependency in their base, they want illegals to to vote.

So while I agree Snake its disturbing you need to look at your own party of Dem destruction.
By elklindo69
#95511
namngulfvet wrote:
snakeoil wrote:This is a disturbing article. When I think of what China is doing compared to our own government fighting and tearing each other up over petty ideals I begin to wonder about America's future. I can't begin to accept that we are a has-been. If you read this entire article you should spend some4 time thinking about where we are heading and where we should be heading.
China is setting themselves up to be the friend of the downtrodden. We've seen it before: money can buy a lot of friends.

http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/10 ... ef=d-river" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
And not one Democrat wants to reach across that isl to help. Dems want Socialism so bad they can taste it. Look at the destruction they continue to create. Dems want high taxes so they create a dependency in their base, they want illegals to to vote.

So while I agree Snake its disturbing you need to look at your own party of Dem destruction.
Trump and the republicans claimed that they wouldn't cut your medicare and medicaid benefits.

So what did they do...pass a budget that will cut benefits by more than a trillion dollars on order to fund tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

Bait and switch anybody?
By Intrepid
#95513
Elkindoofus repeats the same tired old polemic about tax cuts for the wealthy. It's the only thing the Donkey-Rats have and they drag it out every time. And their brain dead constituents lap it up every time.

I predicted this weeks ago.
By snakeoil
#95514
While we ponder abortion, gay rights, taking health care away from people, lowering taxes, making government almost non-existent and fighting each other to get the upper hand, this is what China is doing. I'm afraid that we will one day be talking about the late, great United States of America.

it seems to me that China has embarked on a strategy of buying friends with their money (actually our money that we give them through trade.) I don't think our huge military expenditures are going to help us much if most countries consider China a better friend than the USA.

http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2015 ... d-dontmiss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
By johnforbes
#95519
But nobody will have health care taken away by Repubs.

First, many young healthy people won't be mandated to buy Obamacare.

The rest will be on Medicaid block grants handled by the states.

It is just a lazy Democrat talking point to contend that those mean Republs -- you know, the racist white males -- want to take away your health care.

That's how dumb our political "discourse" has become.
By snakeoil
#95523
John, you are making my point. Instead of focusing on the fact that we are being left in the dust of China, you are focusing on the party line. China is fast buying friends around the world. Brazil even has installations financed and designed by China. The Panama Canal is being run by a Chinese company. We can't really compete with China's money but we need leaders who will keep our ideals foremost in the world. We just can't keep knocking the world off balance with the shotgun style of diplomacy being practiced by the USA now. It's getting so that many countries that we used to count as friends don't trust us anymore.
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By namngulfvet
#95525
snakeoil wrote:John, you are making my point. Instead of focusing on the fact that we are being left in the dust of China, you are focusing on the party line. China is fast buying friends around the world. Brazil even has installations financed and designed by China. The Panama Canal is being run by a Chinese company. We can't really compete with China's money but we need leaders who will keep our ideals foremost in the world. We just can't keep knocking the world off balance with the shotgun style of diplomacy being practiced by the USA now. It's getting so that many countries that we used to count as friends don't trust us anymore.
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