Racey
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That had to be the biggest display of build a straw-man, knock it down, type of rhetoric i have ever heard.... Total skirting of the real issues, complete lack of admitting any flaws in the US's past world policies, we can do no wrong, Romney said something like "We don't dictate to the rest of the world, we free them" is he smoking crack? we dictate shit to half the countries, bribe the other half with billions, and do a little bit of both all around. Hell he even said it right after talking about Cuba and Iran, we have been dictating to them via sanctions for decades......
Then at one point Romney went on a tirade about China being a currency manipulator, they are "holding down the value of their currency" were the words he used, along with "holding down their currency", what a wise choice of words to confuse the public, when the US "holds down the value of their currency" it's called inflating the currency, inflation. We do it it's called QE, no big deal, China does it, they are currency manipulators, I hope he knows that China's currency value is pegged to the dollar, he has to being involved in any type of international investment. At that point it doesn't make him stupid, it makes him disingenuous....
Then Obama went on to say "We never seen a more advantageous period than we have today for US exporters" (paraphrase), he touted that as a sign of strength, what he really means is "the US dollar is so weak that everyone else around the world can afford to buy our shit more than they used to, but we can't afford to buy theirs the way we used to" are you fucking kidding me? we should be happy that our currency has been so heavily weakened that our products are more affordable for everyone else, even though theirs now cost us more to import?
Point being these guys say shit, it sounds good when you listen to it, but the reality is something completely different..... it's a dog and pony show.
This whole deal was nothing more than a theater production targetted for the Average American, I hope there are more people out there seeing through this shit...
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Then at one point Romney went on a tirade about China being a currency manipulator, they are "holding down the value of their currency" were the words he used, along with "holding down their currency", what a wise choice of words to confuse the public, when the US "holds down the value of their currency" it's called inflating the currency, inflation. We do it it's called QE, no big deal, China does it, they are currency manipulators, I hope he knows that China's currency value is pegged to the dollar, he has to being involved in any type of international investment. At that point it doesn't make him stupid, it makes him disingenuous....
Then Obama went on to say "We never seen a more advantageous period than we have today for US exporters" (paraphrase), he touted that as a sign of strength, what he really means is "the US dollar is so weak that everyone else around the world can afford to buy our shit more than they used to, but we can't afford to buy theirs the way we used to" are you fucking kidding me? we should be happy that our currency has been so heavily weakened that our products are more affordable for everyone else, even though theirs now cost us more to import?
Point being these guys say shit, it sounds good when you listen to it, but the reality is something completely different..... it's a dog and pony show.
This whole deal was nothing more than a theater production targetted for the Average American, I hope there are more people out there seeing through this shit...
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