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To: RetiredNow who wrote (547840)	2/4/2010 8:18:44 AM
From: jlallen	7 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575958

WTF are you talking about? What has that got to do with the GOP?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (547840)	2/4/2010 8:20:36 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575958

Finally, we're getting serious about our issues with Chinese currency manipulations. It seems that Obama is taking our most important threats seriously, unlike Bush who had nothing but Al Qaeda on the brain. China Shows Little Patience for U.S. Currency Pressure nytimes.com Mr. Ma was reacting to remarks on trade that Mr. Obama made on Wednesday when he met with Democratic senators in Washington. Mr. Obama stopped short of saying China manipulates its currency, but his words on China’s economic policies were harsh — the United States, he said, has “to make sure our goods are not artificially inflated in price and their goods are not artificially deflated in price; that puts us at a huge competitive disadvantage.” Economists agree with that assessment. They say that the Chinese currency, the renminbi, is undervalued by 25 to 40 percent compared to the dollar and other currencies. The gap is wider than at any time since July 2005, when the Chinese government, under pressure from the Bush administration, decided to the do away with the renminbi’s peg to the dollar and allow the currency to float in a narrow band against the dollar and other currencies. The sharp exchange over China’s currency is only the latest symptom of rising tensions in American relations with China. Internet censorship, hacking attacks directed at American companies, arms sales to Taiwan and the pending visit of the Dalai Lama to Washington have all cropped up in the last month as points of conflict. China is exhibiting a brash sense of confidence as its economy continues to boom while much of the world remains mired in a recession.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (547840)	2/4/2010 9:37:03 AM
From: Jim McMannis	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575958

What does this have to do with politics? Nothing. Interesting though that they keep finding older matter. When someone says "precisely" 13.75 billion years you gotta laugh. If matter can neither be created or destroyed does that mean you're 13.75 billion years old? G

To: RetiredNow who wrote (547840)	2/4/2010 9:43:53 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575958

you mean the universe was created on Feb 4, 13,749,997,990 BC

To: RetiredNow who wrote (547840)	2/4/2010 10:22:13 AM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1575958

>> THE UNIVERSE IS PRECISELY 13.75 BILLION YEARS OLD And somehow, Obama managed to generate a deficit his first full year in office more than 100 times as many dollars as years in the Universe. That's a record he can be proud of.