Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers

[touchring]

Re: Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers

I think the groveling is only possible because we are actually so comparatively strong that we can get away with it. The Chinese can't grovel, it reinforces existing truth and would be too embarrassing to them. Can things change, sure, and they might in the next few years, but right now, the US, for all of its enormous problems, still holds many of the important cards the way I see it. Timmy can pretend to be scared, but with a smirk.

The Chinese are just like shop keepers, a shop keeper never rejects a customer. The US is a customer.

[Slimprofits]

Re: Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers

U.S. Rep. Buzz Killington to push tougher sentences for more-potent marijuana

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,4381974.story

By Lisa Black | Tribune reporter
June 15, 2009

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk will call for legislation Monday that would toughen drug-trafficking laws regarding a highly potent form of marijuana, with penalties of up to 25 years in prison for a first-time offense.

The law would target offenders who sell or distribute marijuana that has a THC content exceeding 15 percent, which is between 5 and 10 percentage points higher than average marijuana, according to Kirk's office.

Jeff Spicoli to Mark Kirk, "You dick!"

[Mango]

Re: Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers

U.S. Rep. Buzz Killington to push tougher sentences for more-potent marijuana

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,4381974.story

By Lisa Black | Tribune reporter
June 15, 2009



Jeff Spicoli to Mark Kirk, "You dick!"

Thanks for posting this. It was the first notice I ever took of Kirk, and came to my attention only yesterday, so I am primed to view him as an idiot.

[halcyon]

Re: Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers

all well and fine... but why go to saudi arabia and tell the audience to stop lending money to the usa?

Don't be naive.

Do you honestly think that macro-investors bow to national flags?

Really, wake up and smell the coffee, man

There's nothing special with UK, Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden, Rome, Ottoman empire, etc (you can continue the list).

All had their run, spent it and since then it's been payola time for them. It could be that the time's now up for the US.

BRIC now has the cash. They are the investors of the future.

Why is the macro picture so hard to get.

Of course US can throw a pissy fit and start threatening everybody with their big guns, if it really gets bad.

But even in that scenario, the macro money is going to play both sides till the winner is decided, and right now it sure does look like China.

Let go of your national pride and understand that the fairy tales about the inherent god-given superiority of the US were all that - bed time stories for children and the working masses. Just a historical period, that's all.

Money goes where it makes the most profit.

End of story.

[metalman]

Re: Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers

Don't be naive.

Do you honestly think that macro-investors bow to national flags?

Really, wake up and smell the coffee, man

There's nothing special with UK, Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden, Rome, Ottoman empire, etc (you can continue the list).

All had their run, spent it and since then it's been payola time for them. It could be that the time's now up for the US.

BRIC now has the cash. They are the investors of the future.

Why is the macro picture so hard to get.

Of course US can throw a pissy fit and start threatening everybody with their big guns, if it really gets bad.

But even in that scenario, the macro money is going to play both sides till the winner is decided, and right now it sure does look like China.

Let go of your national pride and understand that the fairy tales about the inherent god-given superiority of the US were all that - bed time stories for children and the working masses. Just a historical period, that's all.

Money goes where it makes the most profit.

End of story.

this is at least the 3rd time in my life i've heard america's end declared.

the usa has a trump card... self repair. just watch. but first...

[dummass]

Re: Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers

That....is in poor taste!

[cjppjc]

Re: Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers

I missed it. If Metalman posted it, there is a strong possibility is was in poor taste.