Would the Chinese lets us buy thier ports? The Russians?

[iconoclastNYC]

This port deal is such a joke.

[The Straight Story]

1. What does it mean to buy a port?

I am still not 100% clear on what this really does/means (never been around ports, I am a land lubber)

[enid602]

2. Chinese

What the hell would we pay them with? Maybe we can sell some more treasury bonds to the Chinese so we can use the proceeds to buy their ports. While they're at it, maybe they'll finance the Iranian invasion as well.

[MadMaddie]

3. Thank-you I have been saying this....

it seems that it keeps getting ignored.

The Chinese, Germans, Russians, England.....would thes countries let foreign business or countries to run their ports? I am guessing no....

It's not racist to not want a foreign country to run our ports in this, lets use the Repub new phrase in this "Post 9/11" environment. Americans need jobs and the port jobs should go to them. National Security is at risk....we are supposed to put American lives in danger because we are supposed to trust the administration...


Thanks for saying it....

:hi:

[iconoclastNYC]

4. Exactly

It's like the Bushites thinks free trade trumps national security.

the NWO-theorists (Alex Jones types) must be shitting themselves over this deal.

[Coastie for Truth]

5. Issue is not "buying ports"

It is OPERATING ports.

See the posting

[iconoclastNYC]

7. Subtle difference.

Don't get tripped up in the minutiae.

[leeroysphitz]

6. Russia? China? No but Ethiopia or another developing nation...

Maybe. But that's the real issue. A developing nation might outsource such functions to a company from a more DEVELOPED nation.

That's right. Yes, I'm saying it AGAIN. The U.S. is slowly(?) but surely(!) sinking into 3rd world status.

Industry here is hobbled, labor movement crippled. Long term economic forecasts in shambles. Universal higher education a thing of the past. Universal health care a complete FANTASY. And we are no longer are we on the cutting edge of science and technology.

What's left? Our once ascendant military. Stretched thin and deteriorating in a disastrous "war of choice" as we speak and with it goes the last vestiges of the "American" century.

I wonder what kind of country my son gets to inherit...

[iconoclastNYC]

8. I agree.

We are turning into a third world country.

The elites are turned into traitors by infectious terminal greed. More! More! More! Sell off the country to the highest bidder, even if they have ties to 9/11.

And they created this whole free-market religion to con us into accepting it.