When will you Yanks learn?

[Mega]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7769108.stm
I would have thought you had better things to spend your money on right now!
Mike

[bart]

Re: When will you Yanks learn?

*sigh*... when will you Brits learn?

[GRG55]

Re: When will you Yanks learn?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7769108.stm
I would have thought you had better things to spend your money on right now!
Mike

Hey, you're just jealous because it worked...unlike those Lucas beer-fridges over there...

I hope they come out with a smaller version that I can mount in the bed of my F-350, so I can protect my family whenever we are on the road! ;)

EJ said that the next bubble would be "infrastructure". You Brits just need to expand your definition of that term and be as creative as us colonials.

[Yaowarat]

Re: When will you Yanks learn?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7769108.stm
I would have thought you had better things to spend your money on right now!
Mike

Other than militarism, ie "war socialism" what exactly does the US stand for?
Oh, and thanks to you Brits for being our long term partners in all this, where would we be without you?

[metalman]

Re: When will you Yanks learn?

Hey, you're just jealous because it worked...unlike those Lucas beer-fridges over there...

I hope they come out with a smaller version that I can mount in the bed of my F-350, so I can protect my family whenever we are on the road! ;)

EJ said that the next bubble would be "infrastructure". You Brits just need to expand your definition of that term and be as creative as us colonials.

can't find the reference but ej once referred to it as 'disinfrastructure'.

[Mega]

Re: When will you Yanks learn?

Just FED up seeing the "Vested intrests" getting funds ALL the time..........mean while the soup lines get longer!
Mike

[*T*]

Re: When will you Yanks learn?

What would it look like if you adjust for interest rates? (historically higher with the pound)

[BiscayneSunrise]

Re: When will you Yanks learn?

Other than militarism, ie "war socialism" what exactly does the US stand for?

Perhaps a re-read of the US Constitution or a walk around Washington DC would be a good refresher.

A quick review of world history might be in order as well.

[kelton56]

Re: When will you Yanks learn?

Perhaps a re-read of the US Constitution or a walk around Washington DC would be a good refresher.

A quick review of world history might be in order as well.

Of course, any similarity between the United States of 1787, when the Constitution was approved at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, and the Empire of America of 2008 is purely coincidental.

And a quick review of America's sordid involvement in creating "world history" especially since WWII might provide some mind-opening insight. Read any or all of Chalmers Johnson's "Blowback" trilogy (Blowback, Sorrow of Empire and Nemesis).

I would think a walk today around DC might make many citizens despondent for the loss of the ideals represented by those monuments and buildings, like touring Rome or some European museum and marveling at what "used to be."

When the Constitution is treated merely as a piece of parchment with black ink, as it is today, and not the defining document by which the country should be governed, we already have traversed the road predicted by Benjamin Franklin, who said, in comments read to the Consitutional Convention immediately prior to the vote to adopt:

"In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, of they are such; because I think a general Gevernment necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what might be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other." (Emphasis mine.)

Bread and circuses, international intrigue, unilateral decision-making, unitary excutive, bailouts and rescues and a global empire. I'd say we're just about there - despotism, that is.

But we do have money for missile systems too. Or, just think of our entire Defense Department budget, say $700 billion or so, plus or minus $100 billion, as our "hidden" cost of acquiring petrol. See, gasoline is not as inexpensive in America as we all think.