#114560 by thomas billis

...."My only hope is that someone will convince the chimp to start fixing the problem by talking.Or get ready for a draft and your kid fighting and dying for oil."…

Thomas,

It’s way, way, way too late for this talking. He’s had more chances than they claim cats to have lives, and has not only blown each one, but actively made it worse. He’s spent 7 years making it worse.

How long does one think that they can poke and antagonize, and agitate, and insult, and demonize even the friendliest of the foes, and not expect them to strike back at some point?

Neither of these guys started out as ‘foes’ in the typical sense of the word. Both have even offered help.

It’s the same with Russia. They were no longer our ‘bitter enemies’ by the time the thugs came to power, but now he’s even annoyed Putin. China can snap our necks at any time.

They can’t begin to REPAIR the damage until they stop CREATING the damage, and of course that is still ongoing.

Time to dig in and save prepare for the worst. Not a recession, (which I know “sounds” better) because we’re already IN that. The reality is something closer to 1929, and bound to last far longer.

Eveybody can keep a bottle/can of their favorite beer for when george comes calling, if in fact he’s not hauling his ass out of here on the fastest anything to Argentina or Paraguay. Or, maybe he plans to live on one of those air craft carriers for the rest of his days, ducking and dodging all of the destruction he’s created.

Bush/Cheney’s empire will be flushed down to toilet without pride due to their “blow job’ foreign policy!

The CIA did us a lot of harm not only in Latin America but in Iran, thus it is no surprise that Chavez and Ahmadinejad would link arms and sing kumbyya. We are getting the blowback from being involved in the internal affairs of many countries in South America and Iran still hasn’t forgotten our involvement in the 1953 coup engineered by the CIA. Now they are attacking us where we are most vulnerable - our weak and growing weaker dollar. If OPEC goes Euro on us, there will have severe consequences for U.S. economic policy. It would almost surely throw us into a recession next year and we would be forced to increase interest rates not decrease them. That would compound problems for already strapped consumers. Republican’s could kiss next years election’s goodbye if it isn’t already too late for them. We have nobody to blame but ourselves by getting involved in unnecessary wars which have increased our deficit and made us dependent on foreign buyers of our bonds. There will be some unpleasant consequences in the next few years as it becomes even more apparent how reckless the Bush Administration was in putting our nation in economic peril.