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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (163854)	6/8/2005 9:49:36 AM
From: bacchus_ii	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<Without US covert and overt operations USD would be worth less than half of what it is. The same goes for all other major currencies, though to a smaller degree. >>> Sheesh... Sun Tzu you lost me here. Currencies are valued against other currencies. If you devalue all of them at the same time, nothing change.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (163854)	6/8/2005 3:50:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sunny, I think the USA has a LOT more going for it than military might. Military might is trivial in the profit realm and I think the military budget could be reduced by half without even starting to cause a problem. What's Bermuda's defence budget and GDP per capita? That shows there isn't necessarily much correlation between military might and profits. Luxembourg? New Zealand? <assume New Zealand declares war upon Australia despite your objections. Then either you will have to leave NZ behind, or you'd better damn well make sure NZ comes on top (or at least don't lose big). Otherwise you may lose everything you have.> I have another choice. I could be a fifth column for Australia. If Australia won, they wouldn't confiscate my house, just the public properties. That wouldn't be a bad thing because then our public properties would be upgraded instead of being left suffocating under welfarism and "arts". That would be so funny if NZ declared war on Oz. Akin to Oz declaring war on the USA. That might be no bad thing either. I doubt the USA is silly enough to just let Oz in as another state. That's what the British did and look where it got them. The British though everyone should be equal with full human rights. The USA prefers to conquer, install some mates, then milk the profits without letting the aliens in. The USA is not sucked in by that egalitarian nonsense. There are human rights and laws for some, but not for others. Mqurice