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To: tejek who wrote (572972)	6/22/2010 7:30:43 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576166

So you're really in favor of high speed rail to engineer our society and economy in a way most people don't want to go. There are not going to be a lot of choices. We have a trade imbalance Then tax imports of oil and open up more domestic lands for exploration / development. Command and control of economies guided by government planners doesn't work - 100+ years of history prove that. Look at NK, Cuba. You don't know the first thing about planning Interesting I've started an annual planning process at work recently. But more important, I know history and command and control doesn't work .... didn't work in the USSR, China, NK, Cuba, or anywhere. There have even been real world experiments with nations cut in two - one following a rigid command / control model, the other following a freer market model - E & W Germany, E & W Europe, N & S Korea, Communist China & Taiwan & Hong Kong & Singapore. The evidence is clear. If and when driving gets too expensive (hey, I thought you liberals wanted us to go to electric cars anyway? not NO cars. now we know.) .... if/when driving gets too expensive then we figure something else out .... no reason we should till then. Yeah, that's a brilliant strategy. Unfortunately, its not good enough for me. So sorry. If its not good enough for YOU, reorganize YOUR life to one without cars and let the rest of society run their own affairs. Subsidized cars? Fantasy used to justify a vision most people don't want. What do you call building trillions of miles of roads, freeways and parking lots? I call it spending the gasoline excise taxes. Now if we paid the high speed rail out of fees or taxes paid by riders .... I'd have no problem. As evidence for what people want .... consider this article that even in our most liberal state, most people don't even carpool: Driving alone will become a luxury.......sooner than you can imagine. People have been saying that my entire adult life and I'm getting close to retirement now. Liberals intend to make it a luxury, that is clear. Actually you don't even want people to have cars to pool. Of course, you guys don't do any of these things yourself .... you just push society to enforce something on everyone that even you won't adopt for yourself on your own. Really upsets you think that you can't fart whenever you want. ? Heh, I guess you guys want to control that too. After all, there may be planet threatening methane involved. After all, you're white and entitled. Everyone is free and entitled in this country. BTW by your stds I'm mixed race, like Berry Gordy's grandson, remember.

To: tejek who wrote (572972)	6/22/2010 7:56:30 AM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576166

Left [IS] Strangely Silent on Petrobras Monday, June 21, 2010 By Glenn Beck FNC [ If you don't like our balance of payments, why do you like that Obama is driving drill rigs to Brazil? That the owner of the Democratic party and much of the left is invested in Brazilian oil? That he's even got the US to loan billions to Petrobras to fund their exploration? "A billionaire investor dumps money into state-controlled Brazilian oil company and days later administration dumps $2 billion dollars into the same exact company? Now the administration is crippling the American competitors and the biggest winner in this is Petrobras. ..... why are we investing in another country's offshore drilling while banning ours?" Glenn Beck ] George Soros loves Petrobras All I could think about this weekend was one word: Halliburton. Everyone in the universe knows what Halliburton is. It's Dick Cheney's evil oil company. Yup, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, they're just puppets of the big oil companies like Halliburton. So, getting in bed with Big Oil is a touchy subject with the left. They won't stand for anyone with any sort of a connection with an oil company. Oil is evil! Yet no one knows the word "Petrobras." Suddenly the left's concerns with politicians and Big Oil seem to have dissipated. But you've heard George Soros' name before. He's the billionaire progressive activist who doesn't mind throwing his money around. His seemingly unending quest for big government control is kind of strange, considering he was born in Budapest, Hungary and his dad was a Hungarian Jew who was a prisoner of war in World War I. Soros eventually found his way to New York City in 1956 and, by 1970, had set up his hedge funds that would make his fortune. Yet he spends millions of that fortune on things like a progressive blog site called Media Matters, where bloggers earn six-figure salaries to sit around and distort conservatives' words all day long. Soros started the Open Society Institute (which seeks "fairness" and "justice") and the Tides Foundation, which among its many classics created the anti-capitalist "Story of Stuff" indoctrination video that was shown in schools across America. Soros is globalist and is one of those power players trying to establish a new world financial order: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE SOROS, BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR: You really need to bring China into the creation of a new — world order, a financial world order.... So I think you need a new world order that China has to be part of the process of creating it. (END VIDEO CLIP) He's also doing his best to implement the Cloward and Piven strategy of collapsing the system, so that a new one can replace it: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SOROS: I believe that basically the system is broke and needs to be reconstituted.... The system we have now has actually broken down, only we haven't quite recognized it and so you need to create a new one and this is the time to do it. (END VIDEO CLIP) He's pointed out the "bankruptcy" of market fundamentalists: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SOROS: I mean, it is effectively a bankruptcy — of the — of this market fundamentalist belief, which really came in with Reagan and Thatcher. Now, Reagan is still in the panoply of — of saints in — in this country. And — and we — we just have to recognize that we — something went very wrong and we need to reformulate our view of what — how financial markets work. (END VIDEO CLIP) But perhaps his most effective creation is the Center for American Progress. When the group formed in 2003, he promised $3 million, but that number could be higher as Soros admits to spending $500 million a year on his various foundations. Back in 2003, Democrats were floundering and on the verge of irrelevance. They needed an "intellectual coup" just like the conservative Heritage Foundation achieved in the '80s. Center for American Progress provided just that; it's a progressive policy think tank that believes in "government that champions the common good over narrow self-interest" and they have heavy influence on this administration. Bloomberg reported that the Center for American Progress "helped build the platform that triumphed in the 2008 campaign" and Time Magazine noted that "not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan's transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway." At the head of Obama's transition team was John Podesta. He's also the founder of Center for American Progress, a former Clinton administration official and the guy who not only laid out the plan for how the Obama team would be put together, he staffed the senior levels of the White House, Cabinet members and the top layer at government agencies. With that kind of influence — and we'll show you more evidence of that influence coming up — it's important to look at what Soros is investing in. Could there possibly be any, what do they call them, conflicts of interest? Through his Soros Fund Management hedge fund, Soros is heavily invested in many different things. But one that caught my attention (and seemingly no one else's) recently is Petrobras. What is that? It's Brazil's state-controlled oil behemoth. It's Brazil's version of Big Oil. They've netted $15 billion in profits during the last year. As of March 31 this year, SEC filings show Soros Fund has $637 million vested in Petrobras. Last December, the fund had $900 million invested in the company, making Petrobras one of its two largest stakes. What did Soros see in these guys that the rest of the world didn't? Is he just that much smarter than everyone else? Or is it possible because of Center for American Progress and all the other connections Soros has at the White House, he knew that the administration would be making a $2 billion "preliminary commitment" to Petrobras for "exploration," just days after he strengthened his investment? Or was that just another one of those bad luck situations for Obama? Because it certainly doesn't seem to pass the smell test: A billionaire investor dumps money into state-controlled Brazilian oil company and days later administration dumps $2 billion dollars into the same exact company? Now the administration is crippling the American competitors and the biggest winner in this is Petrobras. Mind you, this is a multi-billion dollar company that rakes in tens of billions in profits each year. Why in the world would these guys need a loan? And why are we investing in another country's offshore drilling while banning ours? — Watch "Glenn Beck" weekdays at 5 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel foxnews.com