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RE: The Only Explanation
October 28, 2015 at 7:52 pm
(October 28, 2015 at 5:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Ben Carson should not be president because he is black. It's called the WHITE house for a reason. Whites rule the earth!!
I was THIS close to slamming on the report button when I saw the username. Dammit CL!
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RE: The Only Explanation
October 28, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Can you imagine how upset the republicunts would be with Carson? I mean, Obama is only half-black and they hate his ass.
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RE: The Only Explanation
October 28, 2015 at 8:01 pm
(October 28, 2015 at 7:52 pm)Kaiser Wrote: (October 28, 2015 at 5:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Ben Carson should not be president because he is black. It's called the WHITE house for a reason. Whites rule the earth!!
I was THIS close to slamming on the report button when I saw the username. Dammit CL! ![Tongue Tongue](https://atheistforums.org/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
I also did a double-take.
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RE: The Only Explanation
October 31, 2015 at 9:12 pm
(October 28, 2015 at 4:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: that makes sense is that Carson stood too close to the anesthesiologist for too many years and the gas fried too many brain cells.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/ben-cars...-no-sense/
Quote:Ben Carson’s budget plan makes absolutely no sense
Either that....or someone smashed the dumb fuck repeatedly in the head with a bible. Can a normal average American family run its own family budget following Carson's financial plan? If it won't work for the family budget it won't work for the national budget.
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RE: The Only Explanation
October 31, 2015 at 9:19 pm
(October 28, 2015 at 5:48 pm)Chad32 Wrote: A flat tax is not good for the economy. Someone making 10k a year is going to be struggling enough without having 1k taken from him. A guy making 10b a year is still going to be a billionaire when you take 1b from him.
The defense budget, which is currently 57% of our spending, is what needs cutting the most.
I'd like to be able to fix the debt without raising the ceiling some more. That seems counterproductive. The defense budget has several $trillion items in it that needs funding. There's the $trillion F35 fighter plane; the $trillion new submarines and nuke missiles; and the new $trillion B3 bomber. We have to arm-up to be able to take out the Chinese.
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RE: The Only Explanation
October 31, 2015 at 9:59 pm
Yet with all of our military we grovel before countries like Saudi Arabia as if they'd dare to just cut us off completley. Like we wouldn't have a quick answer for them not giving us oil anymore.
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RE: The Only Explanation
October 31, 2015 at 10:01 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2015 at 10:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The price they sell it for is less than it would cost to take it from them. So we buddy up, it's the smart thing to do.
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RE: The Only Explanation
October 31, 2015 at 11:01 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2015 at 11:01 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(October 31, 2015 at 9:59 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Yet with all of our military we grovel before countries like Saudi Arabia as if they'd dare to just cut us off completley. Like we wouldn't have a quick answer for them not giving us oil anymore.
Actually, with the increased dependence of rapidly-modernizing China and India on imported oil, we stand to have almost literally half the planet opposed to us, if we try to take SA's oil by force.
Right now, right this very minute, we could easily take them out--that is, reduce them to meaningless squabbling without real power to reach out and ruin our day--with our combined naval and air power, if we ignore the fact that both nations have nuclear weapons.
But as Rhythm pointed out, the cost-benefit analysis isn't anywhere close. That's why, despite the problems with drilling and fracking and tar-sands, we've quietly moved almost entirely to North American sources of oil.
Quote:The United States exported about 4 MMb/d of crude oil and petroleum products in 2014, resulting in net imports (imports minus exports) of about 5 MMb/d in 2014. Net imports accounted for 27% of the petroleum consumed in the United States, the lowest annual average since 1985.
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