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Comment Re:USA Same as China (Score 1) 65

Yes and in the eyes of the US government the first statement is dab because it discloses secrets to a government and the second is good because it discloses secrets to a government. It is the same as why a 5 year old thinks shearing is great when they get to play with a siblings toy and have a tantrum when you ask them to share

Comment Re:Stiff the creditors (Score 1) 245

You idea works well in practice for a company with working valuable assets. That's not the case here.

How does any company have more working valuable assets than a territory of the USA? It has all the land a guaranteed tax base. Where as a company will probably has lest physical assets and they have to sell things in order to make money.

Comment Re:"Historic thaw"? (Score 1) 279

The embargo was a reaction to Fidel's involvement with the Kennedy assassination, that's the reason all Presidents until Obama maintained it. Perhaps now the truth can come out. ;-)

That's quite a claim as JFK was the president who signed the embargo into law

President John F. Kennedy secured for himself 1,200 Cuban cigars just hours before enacting the Cuban trade embargo in 1962. Before signing the embargo, Kennedy requested his head of press, Pierre Salinger, to get him “1,000 Petit Upmanns.”

Salinger first made the revelation to Cigar Aficiando magazine in 1992.

Salinger recalled Kennedy summoning him into his office to see if he could provide "some help" in securing "a lot of cigars" by the following morning. In hindsight, it is evident that Kennedy wanted to stockpile the Cuban products before he banned their import.

http://www.irishcentral.com/ro...

Comment Re:Productivity not Security (Score 1) 122

If government workers actually spent all day working, we would need about half the number of them. This would cause mass lay-offs from the public sector, flooding the jobs market with unemployed people. This would cause a spiral of wage deflation, reduced spending power, declining tax receipts, spending cuts, leading to civil unrest, and ultimately the collapse of government and social order.

Let them have their cat videos.

To be fair I work in the private sector and I can't see much difference between your example and all of my work places.

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