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Georgia’s President Explains Conflict With Russia In Op-Ed
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has taken to the pages of The Wall Street Journal to dish on the current conflict between his country and Russia. Georgia is a close ally of the U.S. and until yesterday had the third largest troop commitment in Iraq behind Great Britain.
Georgia’s military is U.S. trained and has been a big help in Iraq. Unfortunately, the sudden outbreak of war with Russia forced President Saakashvili to immediately order his 4,600 troops home to help fight off the Russians.
To show our appreciation for Georgia’s help in Iraq, the U.S. military began flying Georgia’s troops home yesterday.
FSBO XI
Seventeen weeks into the sale of the house and not so much as a low ball offer. When the president of Wells Fargo Bank says publicly that these are the worst times for real estate since the Great Depression, he isn’t kidding. In fact, there’s nothing funny about what’s going on.
If this is some kind of pyramid scheme where a person buys their spot on the pyramid board and waits patiently for the blocks to fill in until they get their money back, we’re just waiting for our turn. If prices fall to twenty year ago levels almost all of our retirement money will have disappeared in a single year. And we’ll go from occasional volunteering at the local mission serving the homeless to standing in those lines on a permanent basis. Is this the future the New World Order has in mind for all of us with personal estates under $10,000,000?
We never had that much in life, going without things is the way we got by. Unfortunately if you’re laid off at 55 years of age with seven years until the reduced social security checks, you’ll find the savings so painfully put away each year will fly out the door in a single month. Thirty years of savings will only get you 30 months plus whatever interest the funds had accumulated. NAFTA is one of the direct proofs that our government has declared war on Americans by making moving production offshore so lucrative that companies have no rational choice but to do so. Corporations were the masters that ordered our “elected leaders” to draft the act originally so it isn’t exactly a shock it makes big profits a cake walk, which they are allowed to defer the taxes on these profits.
So it’s not so much our government that is the enemy of the American people it’s the corporations of this country who answer to the demanding greed of the investor class. These people demand 10-40 % return on their investments in a 3-5% inflation world. Unfortunately to get these outrageously high returns someone has to pay the price, that would be every hard working American that has to pay high rents, watch their wages get swallowed by millions of competitors swarming into our country, and still expected to spend every penny they have so the retail sector can stay healthy and prosperous.
When is enough, enough? If the top 1% of the population has fortunes so massive that their descendents can’t spend it all no matter how wastefully they live, isn’t it time to show some self control? Does America have to resemble some depressing sci-fi movie with masses wandering the earth in squalor, while the few live like kings of old? It’s Christmas Day and an excellent point to begin the process of giving some of that extreme wealth back to the faceless masses it was taken from. With 90% of all wealth in their possession, they are the only people that can make life in America any better.
By Lloyd H. Frye
Op-Ed Columnist
The Hot Joints
Former Chavez Defense Minister Writes Op-Ed in NY Times
One of Hugo Chavez’s closest aids recently quit his post as Defense Minister and has become an outspoken critic of Chavez and his policies. He has written an interesting Op-Ed in the NY Times, called “Why I Parted Ways With Chavez.”
ON Dec. 17, 1982, three of my fellow officers in the Venezuelan Army and I swore our allegiance to the Bolivarian Revolutionary Army 2000. We considered ourselves to be at the birth of a movement that would turn a critical eye on Venezuela’s troubled social and political system — and formulate proposals to improve it. One of the officers with me was Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezuela, whom I have known since I entered the military academy 35 years ago.
Hugo Chávez and I worked together for many years. I supported him through thick and thin, serving as his defense minister. But now, having recently retired, I find myself with the moral and ethical obligation as a citizen to express my opposition to the changes to the Constitution that President Chávez and the National Assembly have presented for approval by the voters tomorrow.
The proposal, which would abolish presidential term limits and expand presidential powers, is nothing less than an attempt to establish a socialist state in Venezuela. As our Catholic bishops have already made clear, a socialist state is contrary to the beliefs of Simón Bolívar, the South American liberation hero, and it is also contrary to human nature and the Christian view of society, because it grants the state absolute control over the people it governs.
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Mexamericanada
The North American continent is one large piece of land. The people who live on the land are as varied as the landscape. And as in the old world, from which many have come originally, the people speak English, French, and Spanish. That is not to say other languages are not spoken in Mexamericanada, because they are, plenty of them. The number of dialects spoken on the continent, reflect the number spoken throughout the world.
The question is what language should be the “official language?” Since picking English would be unfair to Mexico with its dominant Spanish speaking population, maybe we should pick one that would force everyone to learn a new language. By changing all the road signs, books, voice mail answering machines, manuals, assembly instructions, labels, and brail documents we could generate trillions in new revenue with the change over. There would be an explosion in demand for certain professions. Teachers, interpreters, linguists, even therapists to help people deal with their sense of inadequacy in learning the new universal language.
I’ve taken the time to look up languages spoken by more than 10,000,000 people on the earth, and have taken the liberty to list some of them to chose from. Some of the more interesting ones are: Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Panjabi, Javanese, and Bengali. If we picked one of these, no one would have an edge over the other in the scramble to learn and be proficient in speaking the new standard of Mexamericanada.
Maybe we should settle for a form of the Akkadian language used in ancient Babylonia, where the people were devoted to materialism and the pursuit of sensual pleasure just like us, here in Mexamericanada.
Written By Lloyd H. Frye
Op-Ed Columnist
The Hot Joints
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