It's a joke! They're abandoning this country and taking taxpayers money to boot! It they want money for overseas growth than get it from them! China has the money, jobs, and power now. The U.S. is in a depression...  View

up until now our dynamic has been a consumer driven economy in the U.S. while China has built it's economy on exports. As mentioned in the video the savings rate is abnormally high in China while in the U.S. it is abnormally low . The U.S. needs to reclaim manufacturing jobs (hopefully those jobs will be green) and begin to produce exports while China with its huge population needs to spur domestic consumption amongst it's growing middle class.  View

Timothy McVeigh, and Ted Kazinski, two terrorist who were held in U.S. federal prisons. Why are these people any different? What's so fundamentally special about Gitmo, is it the distance? Cuba isn't that far away- remember Elian Gonzales, that kid was like 8 and he got to U.S. soil from Cuba on a raft. It's not like Gitmo is a super futuristic terrorist proof facility, a prison is a prison no matter where it is.  View

I think in small measure the inability of the President to influence the terms of the meeting in this way is an example of the leverage that China has over the U.S.  View

Its just a lame and degenerate way to get people rushing to the box offices. I knew about the Mayans years before I heard this was coming out. The Mayans were good, very good, and even after their time their calender did perdict natural disasters that did happen, look it up. Although their calender doesn't perdict the end of the world, it just ends. I wonder what kind of hype I would get if I made a movie about the 2030 asteroid, and say it's going to hit the U.S.  View

Banning all products from entering the U.S. that were made with child labor will put Americans back to work. But unfortunately many companies that use child labor are American owned.  View

When trying to pin the U.S. economic recession on well the people who caused it, you have to be a little more tactical about compiling evidence then pulling random emails. All and all I want to see a legislation change that protects the people because this never should have been allowed to happen.  View

Chavez has been baiting the U.S. for a long time, I think this is posturing.  View

I like the idea of another stimulus package that focuses on creating jobs. We should uild hundreds of nuclear plants, giant solar panels, smart grids, and hover craft plants. That way we are creating jobs, making the U.S. more energy efficient, and flying around in hover crafts.  View

To the person who claimed they didn't consent to be taxed for the benefit of the poor, yes you did. You agreed to the terms of the social contract of the united states the very first time you voted. You agreed to abide by the rules and restrictions imposed upon you by the elected representatives of the populace. In return for this infringement of absolute freedom, you receive certain benefits. First among those is the right to be protected from foreign invasion or insurrection by the military of the U.S. Second, you recieve service which you use every day. Running water, electrical grids and of course roads and highways are all part of the infrastructure which you enjoy in return for the stricture of governance. Of course you will say that the electrical system is private, and in specific you would be correct, but remember it took those companies using roads to build those line grids. No roads, no grid. So, when you say you shouldn't have to pay for those who have been less fortunate than you to recieve healthcare or any other service, remember you signed the contract when you first turned on you're tap.  View