Maybe offer your services, Calliope? I reckon any of us here would do a pretty efficient translation job.Mr Rudd is going to America to hold talks with Mr Obama on the financial crisis and Afghanistan. American officials say the success of the talks hinges on whether the Oval Office can find an interpreter proficient in Ruddspeak in time for the visit.
Saw an interview with Jim Rogers last night he blasted past and present Fed Reserve chiefs and Presidents for not understanding whats going on, Japan tried the bail out trick and it DOESN'T WORK.
The present strategy will only make things worse and they will get much worse.
Don't suppose we can expect anything more from KRudd, he's way out of his depth.
Go here -
http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/
look at the right hand side see videos, Jim Rogers interview, stupid web site doesnt show direct links - worth a look - really...........
I just don't understand why - with the widespread acceptance that this policy has failed so utterly in Japan - the strategy is being continued.
Julia, I guess they just don't feel they can let companies like GM fail because of the unemployment consequences and the thousands of other business that rely on them.
From a purely economic viewpoint they should be allowed to fail, as Rogers said someone else better will come along to fill the gap but it's just too hard to let that happen politically.
It does have the real possibility to make things worse though because you're just propping up someone who has failed and the money will run out sooner or later. Are GM going to start selling more cars because they are being propped up ? No.
I think Rogers summed it up pretty well but to do what he says is just in the too hard basket I guess.
Mr Rudd is going to America to hold talks with Mr Obama on the financial crisis and Afghanistan. American officials say the success of the talks hinges on whether the Oval Office can find an interpreter proficient in Ruddspeak in time for the visit.
Mr Rudd is going to America to hold talks with Mr Obama on the financial crisis and Afghanistan. American officials say the success of the talks hinges on whether the Oval Office can find an interpreter proficient in Ruddspeak in time for the visit.
Please give us some idea of measures we can use to assess his success in the enormous task ahead of him.
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"I know they're (special interests and lobbyists) gearing up for a fight as we speak.
My message to them is this: So am I!"
I'd say when rednecks finish high school, the middle class has increased and people eat food instead of fat.
The integrity of his campaigning and Budget & Package is so boringly transparent! Same old rhetoric.
Listen to the man himself answer your question:
The Senate will pass this $3t budget - even if it takes until April.
Who's the daddy?
Yes, Mr Burns, I completely appreciate the political motivations.Julia, I guess they just don't feel they can let companies like GM fail because of the unemployment consequences and the thousands of other business that rely on them.
From a purely economic viewpoint they should be allowed to fail, as Rogers said someone else better will come along to fill the gap but it's just too hard to let that happen politically.
It does have the real possibility to make things worse though because you're just propping up someone who has failed and the money will run out sooner or later. Are GM going to start selling more cars because they are being propped up ? No.
I think Rogers summed it up pretty well but to do what he says is just in the too hard basket I guess.
The time has come for both Rudd and Obama to show if they have the ticker to stop being politicians and start to act like statesmen. American has produced many statesmen and Australia very few. Rudd, like Howard before him, has the handicap of his comic-book looks, and no boring politician can aspire to be a statesman.
Obama on the other hand, can look the part and talk the part. His problem is that he has never done anything, and the public have largely accepted him on trust based on his rhetoric and promises, and Bush's unpopularity.
If he can't throw off the baggage that got him elected and start making some of the hard and unpopular decisions about what to prop up and what to let fail, the future is bleak.
I guess I just occasionally indulge in wishful thinking that governments would simply act in the long term interests of the country they represent, rather than short term political favour.
Sigh.
I think that we are at an extraordinary moment that is full of peril but full of possibility, and I think that's the time you want to be president.
I think there's a sense that right now we are having to make some very big decisions that will help determine the direction of this country, and in ways large and small the direction of the world for the next generation.
And I won't lie to you. I wish that they weren't all having to be made at once.
It would nice to be able to stage them on one another.
Obama on the other hand, can look the part and talk the part. His problem is that he has never done anything, and the public have largely accepted him on trust based on his rhetoric and promises, and Bush's unpopularity.
Obama was elected on more than Bush's unpoplarity.
Mr Burns, this is a rather ambiguious comment. "He wont do it, he's not experienced enough to make calls like that."
Please define whom you regard in the USA political arena as "experienced enough". Without the need for consultation.
No President has had to arrive in office with the unbelievable load of problems in any countries history. Don't even go there with similarities. The tech-age's impetus on fast information, rumours, camoflague is a major contributor.
Obama on the other hand, can look the part and talk the part. His problem is that he has never done anything, and the public have largely accepted him on trust based on his rhetoric and promises, and Bush's unpopularity.
Obama was elected on more than Bush's unpoplarity.
Mr Burns, this is a rather ambiguious comment. "He wont do it, he's not experienced enough to make calls like that."
No President has had to arrive in office with the unbelievable load of problems in any countries history. Don't even go there with similarities. The tech-age's impetus on fast information, rumours, camoflague is a major contributor.
Doris, did you see in the Sydney Morning Herald last Saturday, I think it was the News Review. The KKK? The sad thing about this process is that they are burning effigies on nooses of Obama - as he is black.
These rednecks are increasing in numbers since his inauguration.
Many Americans carry on how 'forward thinking' they are. The lack of policy to irradicate this group is nausiating. Racism is alive and well in the USA. Great counrty to aspire to - not.
Doris, did you see in the Sydney Morning Herald last Saturday, I think it was the News Review. The KKK? The sad thing about this process is that they are burning effigies on nooses of Obama - as he is black.
These rednecks are increasing in numbers since his inauguration.
Many Americans carry on how 'forward thinking' they are. The lack of policy to irradicate this group is nausiating. Racism is alive and well in the USA. Great counrty to aspire to - not.
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