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  • S.V. Airlie
    Ancient Mariner
    • Dec 2006
    • 63914

    This country is going nuts. No surprise!

    It appears that the US is going to give Egypt 23 million $$$$ to repair the fence along the gaza strip that Hamas destroyed.
    And.. we are sending the USACE over to accomplish it.
    WHY?
    Let Egypt fix and pay for its own fence!!!

    Is this practice for our proposed, expensive fenceline along our borders with Mexico?
    Is anyone in our Gov. thinking or are all official just brain dead?
  • Kaa
    Wanderer
    • Sep 2006
    • 13503

    #2
    Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

    Why is this nuts?

    Kaa

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    • TimH
      Be as you wish to seem.
      • Nov 2002
      • 12717

      #3
      Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

      half our own people dont have healthcare and we have billions to just give away.
      I would say the American people have lost control of their own country.
      "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

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      • S.V. Airlie
        Ancient Mariner
        • Dec 2006
        • 63914

        #4
        Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

        Tim gave one reason Kaa..

        Clean our own house before we outsource ourselves to clean someone else's.

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        • Kaa
          Wanderer
          • Sep 2006
          • 13503

          #5
          Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

          Originally posted by S.V. Airlie
          Tim gave one reason Kaa..

          Clean our own house before we outsource ourselves to clean someone else's.
          Note that the money will effectively be paid to USACE :-)

          But do you want to get rid of all foreign aid?

          Kaa

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          • S.V. Airlie
            Ancient Mariner
            • Dec 2006
            • 63914

            #6
            Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

            Originally posted by Kaa
            Note that the money will effectively be paid to USACE :-)

            But do you want to get rid of all foreign aid?

            Kaa
            No, but I think we should be a bit more money conscious and picky as to where it goes and why. Not just throw it ant anyone for any thing.
            I can't understand why Egypt can't pay for it...
            And do you really think the USACE is gonna get all of it ( 23 million )?
            Right.. brbes to be paid, hands to be greased.. Oh food to buy, hotel rooms to pay for.

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            • Cuyahoga Chuck
              # 7727
              • Dec 2003
              • 12984

              #7
              Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

              The Bush people are cozy with Egypt. It gave Egypt a no-bid contract to be our official torturer. Debts must be paid.
              No surprise here.

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              • Kaa
                Wanderer
                • Sep 2006
                • 13503

                #8
                Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

                Originally posted by S.V. Airlie
                No, but I think we should be a bit more money conscious and picky as to where it goes and why.
                I agree :-)

                Note the difference from the original "the country is going nuts" sentiment

                Kaa

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                • S.V. Airlie
                  Ancient Mariner
                  • Dec 2006
                  • 63914

                  #9
                  Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

                  Originally posted by Kaa
                  I agree :-)

                  Note the difference from the original "the country is going nuts" sentiment

                  Kaa
                  Well in this case, I think it is...

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                  • TimH
                    Be as you wish to seem.
                    • Nov 2002
                    • 12717

                    #10
                    Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

                    gone nuts is more like it.

                    We are giving away the farm.
                    "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

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                    • Keith Wilson
                      Trying to be reasonable
                      • Oct 1999
                      • 64114

                      #11
                      Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

                      What? Hyperbole? On the WBF?? Nah, couldn't be.

                      Likewise the difference between 18% of the US population without health insurance (a genuinely serious problem) and "half our own people don't have healthcare" is just rounding error, right?

                      Foreign aid is about 20 billion/year. That is around 0.7% of the federal budget. It may be too much or too little; it may be well spent or thrown away or some of both, but "giving away the farm" it isn't.
                      Last edited by Keith Wilson; 03-31-2008, 11:00 AM.
                      "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
                      for nature cannot be fooled."

                      Richard Feynman

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                      • S.V. Airlie
                        Ancient Mariner
                        • Dec 2006
                        • 63914

                        #12
                        Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

                        Originally posted by TimH
                        gone nuts is more like it.

                        We are giving away the farm.
                        What farms? Are there any left?

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                        • TimH
                          Be as you wish to seem.
                          • Nov 2002
                          • 12717

                          #13
                          Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

                          This country has been like a family farm that sustained the American family for the last 200 years. Now we are giving it away one piece at a time.

                          We are giving away money that we borrow from other countries. we give away key industries, and we send American citizens over seas to die for no good reason.

                          to me thats giving away the farm.
                          "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

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                          • Kaa
                            Wanderer
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 13503

                            #14
                            Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

                            Originally posted by S.V. Airlie
                            What farms? Are there any left?
                            Not many that you can see while floating on salt water

                            Kaa

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                            • S.V. Airlie
                              Ancient Mariner
                              • Dec 2006
                              • 63914

                              #15
                              Re: This country is going nuts. No surprise!

                              Originally posted by Kaa
                              Not many that you can see while floating on salt water

                              Kaa
                              Fish farms, oyster farms (beds), mussel farms(beds)... Umm.. There are a few...lobsta pounds.

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