Hoorah for communism!

[Hercuflea]

Empire State Building turns red-yellow for China's 60th(AFP) – 1 day ago NEW YORK — New York's iconic Empire State Building will light up red and yellow Wednesday in honor of the 60th anniversary of communist China. The Chinese consul, Peng Keyu, and other officials will take part in the lighting ceremony which will bathe the skyscraper in the colors of the People's Republic until Thursday, Empire State Building representatives said in a statement. The upper sections of the building are regularly illuminated to mark special occasions, ranging from all blue to mark "Old Blue Eyes" Frank Sinatra's death in 1998 to green for the annual Saint Patrick's Day. Just last week the tower turned bright red. However, that was not to mark some other communist achievement, but the 70th anniversary of the film "The Wizard of Oz" in which Dorothy wears ruby slippers rather than the silver of the original L. Frank Baum novel. This is pretty sick. America has dropped to the new low level of praising a nation that killed 60 million of its own people. Telling, huh.

[Xei]

Get used to it mate, they're going to own your asses soon enough.

[Absolute]

Well, seeing as how we're well on our way to becoming a communist-like state, it's no surprise. =)

[Black_Eagle]

Well... you got me. That's fucked up.

[Universal Mind]

Get used to it mate, they're going to own your asses soon enough. We will be owned by leprechauns before that ever happens. The world would not survive the war that would take place over something like that.

[Xei]

It's already happening, you owe them like a year's economic output or something stupid like that. :l

[Hercuflea]

i refuse to be held accountable for the money that my government borrowed without my permission

[Universal Mind]

It's already happening, you owe them like a year's economic output or something stupid like that. :l Oh, we owe them lots of money, but that does not mean they will own us. Obama is a college kid blowing his new Chinese credit cards to the limit now. That's great news.

[Xei]

i refuse to be held accountable for the money that my government borrowed without my permission Hoorah for democracy!

[Black_Eagle]

One thing's for sure: Our current situation with China does not bode well.

[Alric]

We got to make them happy I suppose, otherwise they might dump the dollar, and send America into bankruptcy.

[Descensus]

We got to make them happy I suppose, otherwise they might dump the dollar, and send America into bankruptcy. I think we're managing to do that ourselves.

[Alric]

Well we are already bankrupt as a country. We just play the money game, to try and fool people into thinking we are not bankrupt. Currently it is impossible to pay off the debt, without massive inflation that will destroy the country. At the moment the government isn't even attempting to fix it, or to cut spending. They have gone completely insane and are actually increasing spending.

[Universal Mind]

The real problem is that we haven't spent enough money. If we don't double the national debt in the next three years, we just aren't trying hard enough.

[Absolute]

The other things people seem to forget is that there is a difference between debt and deficit. Debt is simply money we've borrowed from other countries. Deficit is a negative return that the country is earning from its capital management. We have had surpluses before prior to the Bush Administration, and times before that. But even with all this spending, the commodities that the country owns such as gold and silver are used as collateral for the amount of spending and borrowing that the country is going under. Otherwise, inflation would turn into Zimbabwe and we'd be living in attempted martial law.

[Catbus]

We got to make them happy I suppose, otherwise they might dump the dollar, and send America into bankruptcy. I was thinking the same thing.

[Shift]

borrowed without my permission I believe you mean 'stole at gunpoint and/or with the threat of incarceration'.

[Supernova]

The federal income tax is currently paying the interest on our national debt. That's right. Every last cent of the federal income tax is just enough to pay off the INTEREST on the money we owe. And with 2 wars going on, that's not exactly getting any better The other things people seem to forget is that there is a difference between debt and deficit. Debt is simply money we've borrowed from other countries. Deficit is a negative return that the country is earning from its capital management. We have had surpluses before prior to the Bush Administration, and times before that. But even with all this spending, the commodities that the country owns such as gold and silver are used as collateral for the amount of spending and borrowing that the country is going under. Otherwise, inflation would turn into Zimbabwe and we'd be living in attempted martial law. My current plan A is to move to Holland, seems like a nice place.

[Hercuflea]

I believe you mean 'stole at gunpoint and/or with the threat of incarceration'. I was referring to the money that they are borrowing from China, without my permission. But what you said works just as well, as in taxes And supernova, yeah that is something people really need to realize. Every last bit of taxes you pay is going directly to the international bankers pockets. They have a financial death grip on our country and if we stop borrowing/or dont make a payment they will strangle us. The only way the government actually does anything is by borrowing more money, which justs digs the whole deeper.

[tkdyo]

I find this disturbing. that is all for the moment

[Kiza]

Every last bit of taxes you pay is going directly to the international bankers pockets. So not a dollar is going to healthcare, or infrastructure, or defence, or unemployment benefits, etc? Just all of it straight to the international bankers?

[Hercuflea]

Yeah, all of the healtcare, infrastructure, etc is done on borrowed or printed money

[Kuhnada29]

What's sick is their making a movie called "Capitalism, a Love story" like it's fucking cool

[Descensus]

What's sick is their making a movie called "Capitalism, a Love story" like it's fucking cool Michael Moore needs to go on a diet and stop making movies talking about things he doesn't know jack shit about.

[Universal Mind]

Michael Moore needs to go on a diet and stop making movies talking about things he doesn't know jack shit about. Michael is going to take the gazillion dollars he makes off the movie and give all of it to charity. He is also going to sell his house, all of his cars, his boat, and his other luxuries and give the money from all of that to charity too. He wants just enough money to live comfortably and have some extra spending money. Just kidding!