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Originally posted by targeting
What? Iran's defense budget is $9,174,000,000. Ours is $692,000,000,000. We have nuclear weapons. They don't. I don't think that the U.S. should go to war with Iran, but saying that attacking Iran "would be akin to suicide" is just ridiculous.edit on 10-2-2012 by targeting because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jhn7537
You are the epitome of a troll.... This attempt to turn your own thread into a I HATE USA thread is pathetic....
Originally posted by Hardstepah
(...) talk about how all of america are bullies and need to die because of all the suffering they've caused. (...)
you ausies need to step your game up... all that typing and not much history, you punks would go down so easily. You need to snap out of that deep sleep your in, thinking china and Russia will win a ww3 against the united states. lol you guys at at the bottom globally, it's easy running your own little world when you do damn near nothing in a global scale of things.
earn your stripes before talking.. do something instead of rooting for the guys that can take you out with out much effort. don't forget you buy your military goods from us and are our allies. so quit acting so retarded and play your little role
Originally posted by Grifter81
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I bet intelligence officers are on the ground in Iran now gathering information to cover any eventualities that might occur, and I'm sorry but Iran won't stand up to the United States war machine for long. It will be far from suicide for the USA to attack IMO.
OP you seem to be revelling in anti American sentiment? I wonder why you dislike America? You seem to forget in any war it's ordinary people who suffer. You will find the ordinary people of America and Iran have a lot in common, they just want to get on with life, work and feed their families. Preferably without war hanging over their heads.
As long as there are idiots with nukes the west will intervene, especially when the
leadership say they would gladly wipe countries such as Israel off the map.edit on Fri Feb 10 2012 by DontTreadOnMe because: We expect civility and decorum within all topics - Please Review This Link.
Originally posted by theubermensch
Originally posted by LongbottomLeaf
reply to post by theubermensch
I'm glad you keep going one about your very slightly higher credit rating otherwise you would have nothing to keep repeating like a broken record. Never mind your laughable GDP. The IMF places you just above Mexico. The World Bank places you UNDER Mexico.
We have a small population genius. We dont need a higher gdp. But compare our gdp to our national debt. Then do the same with yours. Scary isnt it.
And I have more reasons than that Australia is a stronger country. Look above. You want me to keep going? I could for days. I havent even gotten to education,health.......You want more? Your country sucks. Face it.edit on 11-2-2012 by theubermensch because: (no reason given)
The RBA’s decision not to reduce rates this month caught most pundits by surprise—including me. Given the international and local data, I thought they’d err on the side of caution and cut rates.....
The majority of economic pundits lined up with me for a change because there was a range of data that implied the economy was stalling. Firstly, unemployment has been trending up, and the “steady over recent months” phenomenon that the RBA referred to above was entirely due to a fall in the participation rate. Had this remained at the November level, the ABS unemployment rate would have jumped to 5.6% last month....
And that’s the good news: as was widely reported, employment fell by almost 30,000 last month, so that net job growth in 2011 was zero—the worst outcome in 20 years.
Secondly, a broader measure of unemployment maintained by Roy Morgan Research hit 10.3 percent—5 percent above the ABS figure. The ABS treats someone who has worked for one hour in the previous two weeks as employed, a definition that Roy Morgan rightly rejects:
The ludicrous official definition of unemployment is a classic case of bureaucracies (including the United Nations International Labor Organization in this case) eliminating a problem by redefining it rather than solving it. Many people have criticised this definition (including Peter Brain from the National Institute for Economic and Industry Research, who found that over a dozen official redefinitions of unemployment had all reduced the recorded level); since the late 1990s, Roy Morgan has gone one better and conducted a monthly survey using a definition of unemployment that actually makes sense:
1. Just in the past week we have been told that Westpac has announced 550 jobs to go; ANZ is axing 130 jobs; Holden will cut 200 jobs at its Adelaide plant; Toyota will cut 350 jobs in Melbourne; Reckitt Benckiser (maker of Mortein & Dettol) is to retrench 200 jobs at its Sydney operations; defence firm Thales shedding 50 jobs in Bendigo — these are just the most prominent examples of job losses occurring in the Australian economy!
2. “Economists and politicians are wrong to talk about a ‘tight’ labour market in Australia driving wage pressures. Wage demands (inflation) at the moment are being driven by unions — a small minority of the Australian workforce — not by a tight labour market with workers changing jobs to secure better wages and conditions. Today’s Roy Morgan employment estimates show why inflation in Australia is contained, and will remain contained — at its meeting next Tuesday the RBA must drop interest rates by at least 0.5% and probably more.”
Originally posted by maybejustmaybe
this is my problem with america and it will stay this way till they assassinate me one day.
This american bullsht of being liberators and peach keepers make me sick.
ww2 - Hitler killed about 6 million jews. that make him the evil of the world. America killed more that 6 million innocent people Japanese woman, children indiscriminately. They are still killing and maiming Japanese as the result of the nuclear fall out. And for that they are hailed as heroes. this is a #ed up, crazy stupid western world .
May China, Iran, Russia and the rest live long and prosper.
Just remember history got a 100% track record of repeating itself. And history told me when a society thin it is invincible and superior to others, they are close to been taken off the face of the planet. Pharos, even before that romans, Inca Mayans name it they all dissipated faded back into obscurity.
america enjoy it it is almost at an end
Originally posted by TDawgRex
reply to post by theubermensch
When pinting fingers, remember that three are pointing back at you.
Iran is quite the bully as well.
They have admitted to State sponsered terrorism. Even boasted about it.edit on 9-2-2012 by TDawgRex because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by maybejustmaybe
thank God, I do not live in america. Andwhat i feel is way way past hate
Originally posted by stainlesssteelrat
Plain BS.
Most of people pointing fingers at US are well aware that american society is pretty much dumbed down to the point that rest of the world appears to the them as fantasy lands. Nearly 70% americans don't own a passport. Knowing any foreign language among people born in US (beside spanish) is veeeery rare.
Originally posted by stainlesssteelrat
Admit your mistakes, find people responsible and stop being such a sheeple. Im aware it's not easy task, that propably it would lead to ostracism or even worse (domestic terrorists ).
But stop believing, just for a minute, that you're the "bestest" .
Originally posted by stainlesssteelrat
Also I would like to point out something.
This is forum for people pursuing conspiracies of different kind. This is THE REASON why there are so many america-bashing threads around.
Originally posted by stainlesssteelrat
The moment you stop believing in mainstream media, and more you look at it, the more blatantly visible it becomes. America and Israel are the bullies of today's world.
Originally posted by stainlesssteelrat
So.... at least don't be suprised or shocked that most of people here don't love your country as much as you do.
Originally posted by jhn7537
reply to post by stainlesssteelrat
Our education system here is a joke??? Go look at the worlds top universities, the United States is dominating that list with schools like Harvard, MIT, Yale, University of Chicago, Northwestern, UPenn, Columbia, Stanford, etc.... But some how we're just a bunch of uneducated morons....
Originally posted by sonnny1
So because Americans don't speak foreign languages,or own passports,we are "dumb" ?
Again OTHER country's have way worse problems then America.
Your response has HOLES.......and no meat to it,just Anti American OPINION.
No this site is designed to DENY IGNORANCE. Not bash America.
America bashing isn't a CONSPIRACY.
Your OPINION is already slanted Against America...........Dont pass it off as FACT.
Not surprised by the Hatred........
Originally posted by stainlesssteelrat
Originally posted by jhn7537
reply to post by stainlesssteelrat
Our education system here is a joke??? Go look at the worlds top universities, the United States is dominating that list with schools like Harvard, MIT, Yale, University of Chicago, Northwestern, UPenn, Columbia, Stanford, etc.... But some how we're just a bunch of uneducated morons....
Oh, Im sorry, I forgot to add "besides higher education" even it was on my mind when I wrote it. So.... what are the fees for Harvard my friend for example