Extremes

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

No good deed goes unpunished. Remember there are those who think everything we do is evil. There's even one forum member who's mad because his country didn't sell us enough BMW's last year to pay his governments social programs that put food on his table. Never mind the fact that if we weren't there for defense for 20 years, that country's capital would be full of gold coupla's. Surely I digress...

Don't forget that we still have a GDP of 14 Trillion. We may take a short term hit, hit a few bumps, but I wouldn't write us off yet. I think Americans do their best when the chips are down.

If you want to have a shot at me, do it in the open - do not hide behind some unconvincing manouver in the shadow and giving an impressison to be too decent and polite to mention names - everybody reading you knows that you mean me. Being a bully is one thing, but not standing to it, and instead weaseling around in the shadows - that is not just unwanted, but leaves a pitiful impression.

And next do a little math concerning what is left of a GDP of 14.3 trillion after substracting your debts of 10.x trillion - and what that would mean for your budget and public sector functionality. You are living on tick, much more than anybody else in the world. And 40 years of troops stationed in Germany have nothing to do with that, and thus are no argument here.