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30-11.-2004, 08:48 AM	#181
ryan_velo Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: owensboro ky. Posts: 212	Re: BUSH yes or no 4 MORE YEARS OF BUSH BASHING!!! Jon stewart must be happy, but at the same time not happy, beacuse of our fucktard of a presidet. and dont forget poland!

30-11.-2004, 06:56 PM

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fucktard of a presidet.

I just looked up this word in the dictionary Ryan.
There is a picture of Weisse Luft being taken in the arse by Pressy-dent Bus.

30-11.-2004, 09:12 PM

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I just looked up this word in the dictionary Ryan.

sadly, it didnt specify which one was the fuck and which one was the tard. There is a bit of both in each one i suspect.

01-12.-2004, 08:05 AM

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sadly, it didnt specify which one was the fuck and which one was the tard. There is a bit of both in each one i suspect.

well I just googled it, and acording to defenitons.com, wessyluft was the fuck and george bush was the tard.

02-12.-2004, 03:06 AM	#185
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02-12.-2004, 09:05 AM	#186
ryan_velo Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: owensboro ky. Posts: 212	Re: BUSH yes or no MAN, I got to hand it to ya, that was

02-12.-2004, 09:36 AM

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MAN, I got to hand it to ya, that was

Yep, all quiet on the Bush rhetoric, while he sticks his hand up his ass trying to find his brains...

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04-12.-2004, 11:33 AM	#188
limerickman Community Team Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: at the bar Posts: 12,622	Re: BUSH yes or no Bush and his policies : take a look at the fallout (how long is it now since 9/11 - probably still blaming this bundle of stuff on 9/11. Maybe the weekly prayer meeting will solve it !) Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell to $1.34 per euro for the first time after hiring by U.S. employers slowed in November. The figures damped confidence in the economy and expectations for Federal Reserve interest-rate increases. The U.S. currency dropped three-quarters of a cent within a minute after the Labor Department said the economy added 112,000 non-farm jobs last month, less than half October's rate. The median estimate was for 200,000 jobs, based on a survey of 75 economists by Bloomberg News. ``That number that came through was very disappointing,'' said Paul Mackel, senior currency strategist in London at ABN Amro Holding NV, the biggest Dutch bank. ``With this out of the way now dollar bears are much more confident with their position and will be starting to sell the dollar yet again.'' Against the euro, the dollar weakened to $1.3393 at 11:56 a.m. in New York from $1.3269 late yesterday, after earlier today reaching an all-time low of $1.34, according to EBS, an electronic currency-trading system. The dollar dropped to 102.57 yen from 103.25, after this week reaching the lowest since January 2000. It's down 0.7 percent this week against the euro. ABN Amro predicted the dollar will trade at $1.33 per euro and 102 yen in a month. The labor-market's slowdown from October's 303,000 job gain magnifies pessimism about the U.S. currency, which declined 8 percent in the past six months against the euro on concern bulging U.S. trade and budget deficits have left the nation vulnerable to a pullback in foreign investment. Another `Excuse' ``This is about as bad as it gets,'' said T.J. Marta, a currency strategist in New York at RBC Capital Markets. ``This is just one more excuse to sell the dollar,'' which may fall to $1.35 per euro by the end of March, he said. Reduced trading volume during the December holiday season may increase the risk of betting recent trends will continue, said John Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and a commodity trader. Henry has been betting the dollar will fall. ``The last two months, three months, have been very good for us,'' he said in an interview. ``There will be less liquidity, so I think there will be extra risk'' through year-end, he said. Yields on Eurodollar futures settling next year fell, reflecting lower expectations for rate increases in 2005. The yield on the March contract dropped 7 basis points to 2.815 percent. The contracts settle at a three-month lending rate that has averaged about 22 basis points above the fed's rate target the last 10 years. Rate Predictions All 22 primary U.S. government securities dealers, firms that trade with the Fed's New York branch, predict the Fed will raise its benchmark overnight bank-lending rate a quarter- percentage point on Dec. 14, to 2.25 percent. The European Central Bank left its benchmark rate at 2 percent yesterday. In a Bloomberg News survey of primary dealers last month, predictions for the Fed rate at the end of next year were as high as 4.25 percent. A rate increase next week would be the Fed's fifth this year. ``This does raise doubts as to whether we will see interest- rate hikes at every meeting from the Fed, so it does undermine the dollar,'' said David Mann, a currency strategist at Standard Chartered Plc in London. Reduced expectations for rate increases can lower the appeal of U.S. yields relative to European yields. At 4.24 percent, the 10-year U.S. Treasury note yield was about 0.51 percentage point above that on German government debt of the same maturity. That difference reached the highest in four years this week. Current Account The U.S. currency has lost about 7 percent against the yen in the past six months as some investors bet the Bush administration would tolerate a weaker currency to help trim the current-account deficit. The shortfall in the U.S. current account, a measure of trade, services, tourism and some investments, rose to a record $166.2 billion in the second quarter, equivalent to 5.7 percent of the economy, up from 5.1 percent in the first quarter. The deficit means the U.S. needs to attract $1.8 billion in foreign investment per day to keep the dollar from weakening. The U.S. federal budget deficit also reached a record in the year through September.

04-12.-2004, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by limerickman

Bush and his policies : take a look at the fallout
(how long is it now since 9/11 - probably still blaming this bundle of stuff on 9/11. Maybe the weekly prayer meeting will solve it !)

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell to $1.34 per euro for the first time after hiring by U.S. employers slowed in November. The figures damped confidence in the economy and expectations for Federal Reserve interest-rate increases.

The U.S. currency dropped three-quarters of a cent within a minute after the Labor Department said the economy added 112,000 non-farm jobs last month, less than half October's rate. The median estimate was for 200,000 jobs, based on a survey of 75 economists by Bloomberg News.

``That number that came through was very disappointing,'' said Paul Mackel, senior currency strategist in London at ABN Amro Holding NV, the biggest Dutch bank. ``With this out of the way now dollar bears are much more confident with their position and will be starting to sell the dollar yet again.''

Against the euro, the dollar weakened to $1.3393 at 11:56 a.m. in New York from $1.3269 late yesterday, after earlier today reaching an all-time low of $1.34, according to EBS, an electronic currency-trading system. The dollar dropped to 102.57 yen from 103.25, after this week reaching the lowest since January 2000. It's down 0.7 percent this week against the euro.

ABN Amro predicted the dollar will trade at $1.33 per euro and 102 yen in a month.

The labor-market's slowdown from October's 303,000 job gain magnifies pessimism about the U.S. currency, which declined 8 percent in the past six months against the euro on concern bulging U.S. trade and budget deficits have left the nation vulnerable to a pullback in foreign investment.

Another `Excuse'

``This is about as bad as it gets,'' said T.J. Marta, a currency strategist in New York at RBC Capital Markets. ``This is just one more excuse to sell the dollar,'' which may fall to $1.35 per euro by the end of March, he said.

Reduced trading volume during the December holiday season may increase the risk of betting recent trends will continue, said John Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and a commodity trader. Henry has been betting the dollar will fall.

``The last two months, three months, have been very good for us,'' he said in an interview. ``There will be less liquidity, so I think there will be extra risk'' through year-end, he said.

Yields on Eurodollar futures settling next year fell, reflecting lower expectations for rate increases in 2005. The yield on the March contract dropped 7 basis points to 2.815 percent. The contracts settle at a three-month lending rate that has averaged about 22 basis points above the fed's rate target the last 10 years.

Rate Predictions

All 22 primary U.S. government securities dealers, firms that trade with the Fed's New York branch, predict the Fed will raise its benchmark overnight bank-lending rate a quarter- percentage point on Dec. 14, to 2.25 percent. The European Central Bank left its benchmark rate at 2 percent yesterday.

In a Bloomberg News survey of primary dealers last month, predictions for the Fed rate at the end of next year were as high as 4.25 percent. A rate increase next week would be the Fed's fifth this year.

``This does raise doubts as to whether we will see interest- rate hikes at every meeting from the Fed, so it does undermine the dollar,'' said David Mann, a currency strategist at Standard Chartered Plc in London.

Reduced expectations for rate increases can lower the appeal of U.S. yields relative to European yields. At 4.24 percent, the 10-year U.S. Treasury note yield was about 0.51 percentage point above that on German government debt of the same maturity. That difference reached the highest in four years this week.

Current Account

The U.S. currency has lost about 7 percent against the yen in the past six months as some investors bet the Bush administration would tolerate a weaker currency to help trim the current-account deficit.

The shortfall in the U.S. current account, a measure of trade, services, tourism and some investments, rose to a record $166.2 billion in the second quarter, equivalent to 5.7 percent of the economy, up from 5.1 percent in the first quarter.

The deficit means the U.S. needs to attract $1.8 billion in foreign investment per day to keep the dollar from weakening. The U.S. federal budget deficit also reached a record in the year through September.

Well done Lim, that's more or less what I told them in the Post Office at teatime. The Murkian Economy is fecked. Industry is deserting the stinking ship for cheaper production costs. Lissen Misser Produsser God is on ar side, don let these cheap commy crummy states unnermine ar great tradissons by prducin inferior products.

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04-12.-2004, 12:50 PM

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Chinese labour costs .64 cents per hour.

Wonder how the Merkins will compete with that ?

04-12.-2004, 01:02 PM

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Chinese labour costs .64 cents per hour.

Wonder how the Merkins will compete with that ?

Give them a Drivers License ? Instant citizen? Learn the words 'hail to the chief'?

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04-12.-2004, 01:13 PM

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Give them a Drivers License ? Instant citizen? Learn the words 'hail to the chief'?

.64 cents is the labour rate cost - in China.
The average Merkin labour rate is probably between 5-10 dollars per hour.

Using that chinese labour rate in Merkin land - the yank would have to work 24/7 in order to fill up his Hummer with gasoline, get his/her daily supersize meals at McDonalds, and to repay the credit card bill for his TV and his sofa !

Me thinks, the man from East is wiping the floor with Merkin.

04-12.-2004, 01:16 PM	#193
Crank Turner Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 10	Re: BUSH yes or no I've always said that the mountain bike may-well save the world one day. Apparently, the president of a certain sole superpower has taken up riding mountain bikes, helmetless and hellbent-fer-leather on his ranch. I know it sounds real morbid but there's still a chance that at least one mountain bike might save the world. Oh well, only four more years...

04-12.-2004, 01:29 PM

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Didn't BRF tell us that they were banging out C50's in ping pong province for $100 a frame?

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04-12.-2004, 02:31 PM

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Chinese labour costs .64 cents per hour.

Wonder how the Merkins will compete with that ?

If it was'nt for the Americans, in the early 70's, nobody would be trading w/ them & they would have their forces hostile to us. Since that time, the democracy movement has intensified as a direct result of trade, allowing the common folk to make money & raise their standard of living & awareness of outside goings on inre acceptable & unacceptable practices of gov't. Are you stateing that the world would be better off w/o a "freely" trading China? Hong Kong residents, formerly under the british protectorate(?) are still voicing their concern about the way the chinese central gov't has tried to marginalize their say in self-gov't. What's going on there? Britain playing any role in that? Anybody care to say?

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