Who Will You Vote For..?

Already voted. Bush helped this country about as much as Spurrier helped the Skins.

I like a small government that stays out of my business.

Big fan of the Patriot act I see.

I'll try to post a longer, well thought out post (Yeah, Im shocked too!) when I'm not rocking a fever of 101!

Oh, by the way Cpayne. I know last time we talked politics, you hadn't seen F. 9/11 and refused to. Have you, or have you just watched Farenhype 9/11 and blindly arguing for that like you're accusing others of doing the other way around?

patriot act TIA etc is all crap, but i see nothing that would make me believe kerry would be any better on those fronts either... and that's been the problem i've been having... the things i personally care about that bush sucks at (science/tech laws, privacy), aren't really addressed (since for most people they're very minor issues sadly), and kerry hasn't done anything to make me think he'd be any better.

Whatever, it's all crap, let's bench them all, fire them and start again....

It's certainly going to be another rebuilding season in America.

Bush is going to drive this country to war again & to the ground after that. He has already requested an addl 75 bil (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/iraq.spending.ap/index.html) for the dept. of defense (DOD). What do you think this money is being spent on...? Special interests groups linked to the Presidents Admin. will indirectly see this money.

Did you know that the Saudis have 1 trillion dollars in our banks & if they ever decided to remove it our economy would be shattered. Call it what you want, but I call it extortion.

Big fan of the Patriot act I see.

I'll try to post a longer, well thought out post (Yeah, Im shocked too!) when I'm not rocking a fever of 101!

Oh, by the way Cpayne. I know last time we talked politics, you hadn't seen F. 9/11 and refused to. Have you, or have you just watched Farenhype 9/11 and blindly arguing for that like you're accusing others of doing the other way around?

See post #31 in this
thread (http://www.thewarpath.net/showthread.php?t=1625).
I never once refused to see it. That's putting words in my mouth that I never said.

I'll gladly watch it if you own it and will lend it to me. I am not going to pay to see it, though. That's what I've said all along. I'll let you barrow Fahrenhype 9/11, too - if you like.

Did you know that the Saudis have 1 trillion dollars in our banks & if they ever decided to remove it our economy would be shattered. Call it what you want, but I call it extortion.

That 1 trillon figure is a bit high. The highest estimates are in the $860 billion range (most estimates are in the $400-$600 billion range), which is less than 7% of total foreign investments in the US. Yes, pulling 7% of foreign investments out would hurt, but I don't think it would shatter our economy.

cpayne, pulling out 7% would more than just hurt our economy.

cpayne, pulling out 7% would more than just hurt our economy.
Shatter it though? When I think of our economy being shattered, I think of it being unrecoverable. I think we could recover from 7%. 7% is a high number with their investments being a rather high number at $860 billion. Like I said, most estimates are in the $400-600 billion range, which would put their investments in the range of 3.25-4.8% of total US foreign investments.

The $860 billion figure comes from the book(House of Bush, House of Saud) of the author (Craig Unger) michael moore interviews. The book lists two sources, one of which actually has that figure.

I'm not saying it would shatter the economy, I just thought you were underestimating how much 7% of the economy really is.