Denny's trying to help the thread. In the only way he knows how, to hijack it. All I know is that Algeria overthrew the French in the late 50s, finally had a national election about 10-15 years ago, the Islamists won, Western intelligence helped the government not allow the voters to get their Islamist government, and later overthrew Libya, moving it backwards to the stone age out of its middle class civilization. So now you have pissed-off Algerians and Libyans running for their lives from the killers into neighboring right-wing countries, bringing liberal civilized ideas which threaten those in power. If the U.S. wants France to be an ally, it has to be an ally and stand with France as France conserves its influence in its former colonies and keeps them conservative. Besides, there's nowhere left to start wars anymore, so Africa should provide a lot of killing fun for the next century.
Spain's GDP is up 7% since 2010. Britain's is up 10%. Our GDP is shrinking, even with $1T added to it via borrowing and another $80B added to it each month by just printing money. That's not the question. We have been different from them. It's that Obama, Reid, Pelosi, HuffPost bloggers, Krugman, etc., are proposing policies that won't make us somehow much different from them. Republicans are pilloried in the press for obstructing "everything" Democrats want to do, won't compromise, etc. Even though many bills have actually passed both houses and been signed by the president. What's being obstructed? It is what they do in France. It matters not whether we forgive the debt or subsidize education to the point they do. You get to the same result. Obama's not done talking about raising taxes. Here's what our left-wing economists propose - 90%+ tax rates: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/krugman-the-twinkie-manifesto.html?_r=0
does niger have oil? and funny how france can go into another country and kill people, and we join in when russia did it we joined the insurgents
