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It seems odd to me that I have more faith in your country than your fellow countrymen have. I can't help ya' with that. Apparently,"Defeatism Chic" is some kinda' new fashion statement. Looks to be popular in a neighborhood I'm unfamiliar with. "Land of Puzzzzies" should be posted at their frontier . Damned embarrassing behavior, wherever it is they hail from. GTC
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It seems odd to me that I have more faith in your country than your fellow countrymen have. Sadly many of us see the greatest threat to our country is not from external enemies, but from our government. The actions from external enemies and our governments inability to deal with those threats only reinforces and confirms those concerns.
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Thanks for straitening me out guys. Guess you all are ok with the towel heads wearing their beards in the military, the rainbow brigade, and the morons gutting the budget. Not to mention that a large percentage of the population wouldn't fight to get a piece fried chicken if they were starving. They would try to figure a way to get it free
Take care, Willie
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Last week the US produced 1.861 Million tons of raw steel.
At he height of WWII we were producing 1.7 Million tons per week.
Are you sure there aren't any steel mills in this country??
Where is the USS Gerald R Ford being constructed??
Please name another country in the World that can construct an Aircraft Carrier equal to one of ours. In 1940 we had a population of 123 Million now it is 953 million. In WWII we had over 700 aircraft carriers. But military production is the opposite of a vibrant economy.
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I'm not following siski, population of 953 million what???
It would seem to me our military is both large, powerful and experienced enough to give pause to either Russia or China deciding they want a piece of that action. Neither of those countries are ruled by madmen or idiots.
where our Achilles heal lies is economically, lope sniper makes a good point that the FED could just print more US$$ to absorb whatever the Russkies might want to liquidate, but the real danger lies imo, as to what other countries might do if they see Russia dumping US$ denominated debt.
if Russia dumping US$ caused other countries to try and liquidate as well rather than be last man standing, that could be problematic indeed.
what's the FED gonna do buy all our issued debt? Then you'd see just how strong the US$ really is or is not.
I'd like to think other countries wouldn't follow suit by liquidating our debt, but really what's it backed by? The full faith and credit of the US Gov't that hasn't been able to balance a checkbook for the last 40 some odd years, sans some accounting tricks in the 90's?
Our military is in pretty good order from my perspective. Our finances, not so much.
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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It seems odd to me that I have more faith in your country than your fellow countrymen have. I do believe most of that has to do with frustration with the current administration and lazy azz m'fers that don't wanna work. Some things just gotta stop, unfortunately it takes time and that is very frustrating.
Paul
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In 1940 we had a population of 123 Million now it is 953 million....
Must be counting the undocumented workers.
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Not so sure most of your comments are supported by facts. However, our current administration & many Republicans have done a remarkably good job of plunging our country into debt that is simply not sustainable. We don't need the Russians to destroy our economy. Our politician's have already accomplished that.
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Nothing fixes an economy like a global war.
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Isn't this whole tread based on an opinion piece?
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in WWII we had over 700 aircraft carriers. 700 aircraft carriers?
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Old History site says. During the war twenty-two U.S. Navy fleet carriers (CVs) and nine small aircaft carriers (CVLs) served in World War II. Eight ships were built before the war started and the rest were built during the war. (Most of the carriers were named after American battles and famous former Navy ships.) Just FYI
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Sorry 313 million and 151 carriers - not sure why I typed those numbers, long day yesterday. The lower carrier figures dont count escort carrieres only fleet carriers.
the total number of ships carrying an aircraft of some type in the US fleet was in the 700's.
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If Putin wants to collapse the dollar, he better get busy cause Bammy has already got a big head start.
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The collapse of the dollar and the dollar not being the petro dollar any longer may be the best thing that could happen to the U.S. It's going to collapse eventually anyway. The can cannot be kicked down the road forever. It's going to be painful no matter how or when it happens and we all know it will happen.
If we cannot continue to consume their products they will be in much worse shape than we will. U.S. has the workforce to rebuild our manufacturing base, it has the energy resources, and it has sufficient technology. The best thing that can happen is that America produces and consumes it's own production again. We certainly have enough consumption potential and anyone that wants to survive will have to work instead of getting a handout. Sure you will be working for what amounts to be the same as what people get paid for the crap we buy from overseas. No more shipping scrap and getting back worthless junk at a high price.
IMO we need to pull our horns in and rebuild ourselves from within and quit worry about who is going to buy our debt. I hope they do quit buying our debt. Build in America and buy American. If other countries want our production fine but it wouldn't be essential in the short run.
America has poor leadership and poor policy. We need to get people back to work making us strong. The collapse of the dollar is the only way to get our country back and the sooner it happens the sooner it can get back to fixing what needs to be fixed.
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