Buffett Speaks... You better listen

[AvroJockey]

BTW Is the US the only country in the world where you can be in poverty and be obese at the same time?

LOL!!! That is the funniest, and truest thing I've seen on this board in a long time!!!

 

[Way2Broke]

BTW Is the US the only country in the world where you can be in poverty and be obese at the same time?

This is because in the U.S. if someone doesn't have something they will take it from someone that does. It's kinda like trickle down economics, with a Detroit twist.

Seriously though, the U.S. is becoming a giant welfare state, and worse yet, we're paying for it all with monopoly money. When will people learn that you can't run a business, government, or for that matter your own personal finances on credit and expect it to end well.

 

[F/O]

LBJ and Nixon inherited a "Police action" from the gentleman you have quoted on the bottom of you page, JFK.

With respect to general US policy in Vietnam, JFK did escalate. He inherited the POS from Ike.

My comments were specifically directed toward the debate on the economy we were having. The "guns AND butter" money printing press was cranked up during LBJ and continued into Nixon.

 

[unwashed]

despite warnings from Eisenhower about Laos and Vietnam, Europe and Latin America "loomed larger than Asia on his sights." In his inaugural address, Kennedy made the ambitious pledge to "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty."

Ike didn't really want to deal with Indochina. After the 1954 Geneva accords France left Indochina.

 

[pilotyip]

We have no idea what the world would be like if Vietnam had not taken place.

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

U want to talk about the US Hostages in Iran, and then complain about Carter/the Dems???

Reagan, and Bush Sr. KEPT THE HOSTAGES in Iran until the Presidential Election was over. Iran would've released them during Carter's presidency, but Reagan/Bush figured he would pull the election out, so they took action with Iran to KEEP THEM IMPRISONED, until Reagan was in office.

NICE!

I would LOVE to be a POW and have the leaders in my country keep me imprisoned longer, just for their own political (or monetary) gain.

I think the last good president we had was Eisenhower. If he was running today, he would run as a Democrat, as their platform is much closer to his than the current Republican platform is.

I'm hoping that Obama can be close to as good as Eisenhower was. McCain won't be, but he'll be TONS better than GW Bush (duh!).

cliff
GRB

 

[F/O]

How much would JFK have escalated in his 2nd term? Or would he have? One of the great unknowns of US history. Maybe this is a clue...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG7jjF6xuKM

 

[gunfyter]

nice liberal nutcase conspiracy theory

but it did not happen...

"House Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Deal On Hostages in 1980", The New York Times, 1993-01-13.

"A bipartisan House panel has concluded that there is no merit to the persistent accusations that people associated with the 1980 Presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan struck a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of American hostages until after the election."

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You have to step away from the MSNBC and Moveon.org news sites.

NYT is bad enough....

 

[amaineiac]

Hi!
Reagan, and Bush Sr. KEPT THE HOSTAGES in Iran until the Presidential Election was over.

Why would they do this? Were they worried about not being able to beat Carter in the election?

That was the most lopsided election ever. Mondale carried ONE state! That's only one more than I got and I wasn't even on the ballot!

 

[fischman]

My US History degree is fortunately bipartisan, so how about I fix some of the misinformation on the thread.

The first President to send troops to Vietnam was Eisenhower. Not, JFK, LBJ, Nixon.

Carter successfully negotiated the release of the Iranian hostages, but the release was not until after Regan took office, and in true politician fashion, he took credit for it.