HoosierHawk:
You’re not getting any better at this.
“Where’s that long list of Australian Medical innovations? Where would the world be without Australian mircle drugs”
You mean like medical penicillin, relenza, cochlear implants, HPV vaccine, antibiotic treatment of ulcers, oversight of the global smallpox eradication, the invention of physiotherapy, spray-on skin and the pacemaker? All australian. If you want to play some more, say the word.
“Yes, I’ve heard of LNG – Very little of the NG we use is liquified”
Take another look at that graph I gave you. “Very little” isn’t how I’d put it.
“why exactly is Europe so concerned about the Russian monoploy, according to you, they can buy it anywhere, anytime”
Yes, they can – but not overnight. And when your energy supplier turns off the tap in the middle of winter, you have a very serious problem. Piped gas is always cheaper than shipping and regasification, and a lot of european countries don’t have access to ports or major shipping routes, so piped gas is a winner over LNG in their case. But for countries like japan, there’s really no option but LNG (and guess where some of it comes from – alaska).
“Where are all these LNG processing facilities that will ship our NG all over the world.”
It’s not hard to google. Look it up yourself. It’s a massive industry. Smaller than oil? Sure. But most industries are smaller than oil.
“The effect is small? What the hell do you think the job of the Fed is? They control the money supply!”
Um, no. That’s not the reason the US dollar is down. Sorry. It’s too big a subject to be explaining here, and you’re not going to get it anyway. Government spending just isn’t that significant, compared with other factors. Government debt isn’t even significant with PRIVATE debt.
“She’s an acknowleged expert – you still aren’t.”
And you are apparently not a patch on either of us.
“Matthew, Palin wasn’t refering to the end of life counseling – she was refering to the “cost effective” decisions that will be made”
That’s call a “lie”. Read what she actually wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090813/pl_politico/26078
She’s quite obviously writing about EOL counseling. Stop trying to deny the obvious.
“China owns all those Greenbacks because Americans are willing to give up their dollars for Chinese goods”
Yes, and I explained (partly) why that is.
“you can’t “peg” your exchange rate – it’s set by the markets.”
When you’re the only one exchanging it, you can definitely set the rate. You might not get customers, but in china’s case they make sure they do by selling their currency at a healthy discount – which customers can then swap for (therefore artificially cheap) chinese produce. Get it?
“which is what Mr. Reich (Clinton’s Sec of Labor) was discussing”
The problem is that Mr Reich is wrong. You CAN save money without cutting off the life support – and my example is to point you at australia, which delivers the same or better health outcomes than the US system at 1/2 the per-capita expenditure (and covers everybody, unlike the US system). EOL isn’t the whole story, that’s where you’re both wrong.
