If we spent some of the magical Bail-Out money feeding the hungry peeps of the planet, would making a better world buy us any street cred?
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Geezer
Weird how you ask for cites from only ONE person, no matter how many other posts contain internet sources. Is this your lame attempt to look fair ? And, do you have anything ON TOPIC to say about my post ?
I thought not.
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Kathy,
I agree. I personally think the citation request should be reserved for unsubstntiate claims that have no serious following, but aren't really necessary for anything that falls under the "use the google" category.
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Especially if, once a cite is given or a book listed as a cite for a quote, the response given back is "Yeah, but he's just trying to sell his book."
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Originally posted by rue:
Geezer
Weird how you ask for cites from only ONE person, no matter how many other posts contain internet sources.
Since you are the one person here who most consistantly fails to provide links to the stuff you quote, it seems reasonable that you should be the one I ask for links. Most everyone else is pretty good about providing this courtesy.
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And, do you have anything ON TOPIC to say about my post ?
Sure. It's not relevent to the thread topic, which is about food aid.
The U.S. GDP is around $13 trillion and the EU GDP is around $11 trillion.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_gdp-economy-gdp
In 2006, the U.S. provided 4 million tons of food to the WFP, as against 1.5 million from the EU.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19253&Cr=China&Cr1
Seems relatively equitable.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Hello,
I'm sorry, I believe I took the thread off topic by discussing aid in general terms.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Oh Geezer 
"Since you are the one person here who most consistantly fails to provide links to the stuff you quote ..."
Oh, but you do SO much more than ask for links. You expect me to back up my general opinion with sources !
Strange, you did not ask for a reference for this:
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Would America still be "The Evil Infidels" & such?
Would not everyone love us? Would not oil prices come down?
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Maybe if we withdrew our troops from the 800 installations around the world, signed out of the WTO until it included and enforced worker protections and benefits for operating transparent democracies, stopped the IMF from enforcing the Chicago School of Economics, and brought capitalism to heel
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the west would lose control, and we would have a much different world. ... and anyone else who cannot respect the rights of people just to be left to be.
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hippies wouldn't advocate violence. ...that said, why do you think people all over the world hate and want Americans dead anyway. ...you keep going the way you are, someones gonna burn your country down, and be justified in doing it.
Quote:or even this, YOUR contribution of 'facts' without sources
Figures - you wanna BUY street cred... tsk tsk... money's always the answer with you Americans!
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In lots of the places the hungry peeps are, we'd have to also put in troops to make sure the magical Bail-Out money ended up feeding those hungry peeps instead of ending up in the Swiss bank accounts of various government officials of those countries.
Shall I go on, or have I made my point ?
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Quote:I call bull.
Since you are the one person here who most consistantly fails to provide links to the stuff you quote
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Especially if, once a cite is given or a book listed as a cite for a quote, the response given back is "Yeah, but he's just trying to sell his book."
lmao
I think I'm the one guy who's been criticized for providing too many cites
" I don't believe in hypothetical situations - it's kinda like lying to your brain "
" They don't hate America, they hate Americans " Homer Simpson
Lets party like its 1939
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Hello,
I think Geezer was referring to quotes. As in stuff quoted from sources.
I think he just wanted to know where your quote came from.
He has less faith than I, who generally assumes that your quotes come from reputable sources. :-)
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Originally posted by rue:
Strange, you did not ask for a reference for this:...
Why strange? None of those things are quotes from un-attributed articles, such as the one I asked you to provide a cite for. They're either opinion, or general information that pretty much anyone who's aware knows about. You expect folk to provide cites for their own views or for saying the sky is blue?
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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