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Have you seen the video from Rob Newman, "A Short History of Oil"? You  
might enjoy it. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159

The tech bubble might have been an illusion but it kept people in  
their homes. I can't say the same about the war bubble.

Moon


On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > I beg to differ on two points which I consider pretty important; we
> > had a better-than-balanced budget and a whole lot less dead people
> > with Clinton.
>
> We had the illusion of a balanced budget because of the tech stock  
> bubble.
> Once the illusion of the bubble burst, there went the balanced  
> budget, or
> rather, the illusion of a balanced budget.
>
> The dead people have bought you a propping up of the petro-dollar  
> economy for
> a few more years.  So many people, and espcially Obamistas, think  
> it's just a
> matter of shuffling the troops on transport planes and we are out of  
> there.
> It's just war or no war and it affects nothing else.  But when you  
> understand
> the economic basis of the war (and ALL wars are essentially economic  
> in
> nature), the minute we abruptly pull out, our economy falls.
>
> That would be fine with me, all for it in fact.  But at that moment  
> we will
> no longer be able to command foreign backed debt.  Most pensions and  
> government
> subsidies will be defunct.     </HTML>
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