Article about the $700 billion bailout plan:
"Republicans were also working to eliminate a provision sought by Senate Democrats that would direct 20 percent of any profits from the plan to help create affordable housing. The Republicans want all profits returned to the Treasury."
WHY? WHY? Someone please give a good reason.
I love that the Chinese, Australian, and Germans I talk to know more about American politics that most of the Americans. Myself included. And when I say I love it, that's not exactly what I mean. But I was riding in a taxi yesterday and I heard President Bush on the radio, that kind of weirded me out.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Iraq
So I'm really glad no one reads this because it's highly unlikely that very many people see things the way I see them.
A little article I read in the NYTimes about stuff that's happening in Iraq.
"Problems with the ration basket have drawn widespread complaints from Iraqis, for whom the program was one of the few visible connections to the government. The food basket was a constant under Saddam Hussein and even his critics pointed to it as one thing they could rely on. The basket consisted of flour, rice, tea, sugar, salt, dried milk for adults and for children, cooking oil, lentils, chickpeas, soap for washing and laundry, and occasional extras, such as tomato paste or cake flour.
During the past three years, both the selection of products and their quality have diminished, many Iraqis say. Milk has been missing for much of the past three years, although it recently made a reappearance, and there have been cases of rice with bugs in it and stale tea. The extras that families received under Mr. Hussein are a thing of the past.
In violence in Iraq on Tuesday, American soldiers accidentally killed a Sunni Arab neighborhood patrol leader in a small town near the oil-refining city of Baiji, the military said. The man, a member of the American-supported Awakening movement, was shot during an operation to clear a house of insurgents."
I'm not saying that we haven't done anything good there. But I'm not saying we have either. I'm just saying we haven't done all good there. We should think long and hard about the costs of war. Is it worth it?
A little article I read in the NYTimes about stuff that's happening in Iraq.
"Problems with the ration basket have drawn widespread complaints from Iraqis, for whom the program was one of the few visible connections to the government. The food basket was a constant under Saddam Hussein and even his critics pointed to it as one thing they could rely on. The basket consisted of flour, rice, tea, sugar, salt, dried milk for adults and for children, cooking oil, lentils, chickpeas, soap for washing and laundry, and occasional extras, such as tomato paste or cake flour.
During the past three years, both the selection of products and their quality have diminished, many Iraqis say. Milk has been missing for much of the past three years, although it recently made a reappearance, and there have been cases of rice with bugs in it and stale tea. The extras that families received under Mr. Hussein are a thing of the past.
In violence in Iraq on Tuesday, American soldiers accidentally killed a Sunni Arab neighborhood patrol leader in a small town near the oil-refining city of Baiji, the military said. The man, a member of the American-supported Awakening movement, was shot during an operation to clear a house of insurgents."
I'm not saying that we haven't done anything good there. But I'm not saying we have either. I'm just saying we haven't done all good there. We should think long and hard about the costs of war. Is it worth it?
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
life
Do you ever have a day when you feel like life just plain could not get any better?
I love those moments. :)
I love those moments. :)
Thursday, September 4, 2008
More politics
Nothing is more dangerous in all of human experience than a politician who thinks that those who make war are sent from God.
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