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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (23014)	3/21/2005 9:13:24 PM
From: A Horse With No Name	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108567

writing was never your weak point. <We are the only Economy that can temporarially sustain $80 - $100 Oil.> well thats a pretty subjective statement. why are we the only economy(especially at this stage of unprecedented imbalances)? and most importantly how will we be able to sustain it. this is the meat of the argument that needs to be answered. why is china cornered into a position that it is allowing us to do that? why cant it give us a dose of montezuma by selling some of those treasuries. the rest of your argument is just conjecture.

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (23014)	3/21/2005 9:33:51 PM
From: A Horse With No Name	Respond to of 108567

as they say one man's conjecture is another man's folly speaking of conjecture there are a world of possiblities one of them being In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig tells the story of a South American Indian tribe that has devised an ingenious monkey trap. The Indians cut off the small end of a coconut and stuff it with sweetmeats and rice. They tether the other end to a stake and place it in a clearing. Soon, a monkey smells the treats inside and comes to see what it is. It can just barely get its hand into the coconut but, stuffed with booty, it cannot pull the hand back out. The Indians easily walk up to the monkey and capture it. Even as the Indians approach, the monkey screams in horror, not only in fear of its captors, but equally as much, one imagines, in recognition of the tragedy of its own lethal but still unalterable greed. Pirsig uses the story to illustrate the problem of value rigidity. The monkey cannot properly evaluate the relative worth of a handful of food compared to its life. It chooses wrongly, catastrophically so, dooming itself by its own short-term fixation on a relatively paltry pleasure. America has its own hand in a coconut, one that may doom it just as surely as the monkey. That coconut is its dependence on cheap oil in a world where oil will soon come to an end. The choice we face (whether to let the food go or hold onto it) is whether to wean ourselves off of oil—to quickly evolve a new economy and a new basis for civilization—or to continue to secure stable supplies from the rest of the world by force. rest of it is also interesting 321energy.com

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (23014)	3/21/2005 9:45:20 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108567

Topple the Economy...and you Topple the Government. Given the self inflicted debt, this admin. is purposely committing suicide? C

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (23014)	3/21/2005 10:16:16 PM
From: Sawdusty	Respond to of 108567

"We are the lone Global Super Power - because of our ability to Economically sustain our Military/Industrial Defense Complex. " What happens if China and Japan decide not to fund the 2.5 billion per day?

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (23014)	3/21/2005 10:32:41 PM
From: SOROS	Respond to of 108567

Sliiiiider, Have you been listening to Art Bell too much? And to suggest that gold is purposely manipulated? Why, Krudlow and Crammer would call you silly. Want to see how far the degeneration of the financial markets has gone? Just watch a few minutes of Krudlow. This is the economic equivalent of that Robert Tilton fellow representing Christianity. What a complete farce based totally on being bought out and worshipping the almighty dollar. Pretty funny when you think about it. They worship something with ZERO value. I remain, SOROS 216.131.88.117