Which one is worse for America? Shopping at Wal-mart or sending money to Israel/Iraq etc?
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Sending money to Israel.  Talk about a bottomless pit.
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The answer is no.  This country is in bad shape.  Millions of people are considered at a poverty level, and here we are spending all the nations money on Iraq.  Bush is just trying to finish what his father started.  We need to focus on the American peoples well being before Iraq.  If he wants to worry about something he need to put the troops in Afganistan (or however it is spelled) where the real threat is.
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Yes, it was Wal-Mart. There are hieroglyphics in the Pyramids of Giza that have been decoded. They read, " K-Mart Sucks ".
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You are not stingy. They actually give more than most countries put together. It's just that they give to the wrong people, Israel for example. To buy American-made weapons. Very clever! Or is it?
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Actually it would be better to give these billions of dollars to Palistine than to give it to the demented terrorist warmongoring state of Israel.\n\n  BUT ! Its because the entire Bush administration is JEW!   They have infiltrated our government  with duel citezen ship and their oath is to Israel not the government they serve. Not to mention their intelligence  ( mossad) + ( by deception we shall do war )  is more than likely black mailing most of our elected officials and the ranson is billions to the biggest wellfare burden on the American tax payer. This tiny terrorist state is about the size of Road Island  and reacieves billions per year plus muti-millions in military aid , not to mention that Americans have finaced their wall completely to keep palistaine out and Israel is still begging for more money. We have financed their genocide of the Palistinian peoples and the leach Israel keeps asking for more. They are nothing more than a filthy burden on the American people. They are the greatest racist in the entire world!\n\n Click on the link below and you will find the entire Bush cabal is run by crimminal Israel.They make your laws, educate your children with untrue history and they rob you of your heritage by banning it from your childs education. Most of these leaches are members in our government but have duel citizenship with Israel and all laws they make and everything they do bennifits Israel not America. \n\n It is they who caused America to get involved with Irag and soon Iran by making the laws that demand we fight Israels battles because they are cowards. They will fight the enimies of Israel if it takes every last Amreican!  By deception they will do war is their motto. Since they are such great deceavers they don't belong in our government. I thought is was illegal to have an official in our government who has duel citizneship? Time to vote these wellfare leachs who syphone the American economy out of office! This next election , every American should not vote for anyone who is Jewish or pro jewish..... vote them out once and for all and lets get our country back out of the hands of the terrorist!\n\n   Spread the word! Send this link to as many people as possible and warn America. Start an email alert wereas you friend sends it to ten people and they send it to ten people or more. Have this entered in as many links as possible, most will do it for they are angry with Israel. Lets put an end to forein countries running ours. Get them all out of our offices and out of our courts which they also control!Most judges in America are jewish and always vote in favor of the jew in accordance to their Talmud. they will never serve you rigthous  no matter how much evidence you have to the contrary because it is against their laws to faught a Jew over a gentile, therfore you will always loose to their crimminal efforts.\n\n  Don't believe the TRIPE that Israel is GODS chosen land. There is no mention of a chosen land for Jews in any true biblical writings, nor does GOD or his word call Jews Israel or Israel JEWS. This is the mindset of demented people who believe the Jewish lies despite what GOD has warned the world about not believing anything that comes out of the mouth of a Jew, in Titus 1: 13-14. We Chrsitians are to NEVER believe the Jew and it is time we became as strong in our religion and follow GODS laws and throw the Jews out of Christianity once and for all!\n\n The Jews NEVER invited the Palistinians to stay, that is a lie from the pits of hell! That is why they have built the wall to keep the Palistinians out so that no-one but Jews can live in that state. Oh sure thay have a few Arabs in that state but that is so when they tell you that Israeli citizens have been attacked by bombs in one of their black flag operations and they tell you it is an Israeli citizen that was killed they are in effect telling the truth. But really it is an Arab or many more whom have been killed because Jewish blood is n
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Israel is the biggest American problem. There is no simple answer to the Israeli problem both political parties are manged by the Israeli lobby. The Israeli lobby is the most power full lobby in Washington. the lobby can make or brake any candidates to congress who want to be an enemy of the lobby or vote against lobby bills. Read what Sharon told Paras on a debate on Israeli radio"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." -- Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael
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That is called inflation.  Many countries have been throughout that and coming out of it is hard.  But we are still not at the worst level of it-depression.  So lets hope that our leaders do not let it slide to there.  Hang in there-for now if we reduce to only necessary needs and purchases we can still survive.  And those needs are a lot less then what typical americans had to live by.  I have been through depression back in my birth country-when a fruit yogurt was a luxury and we could get one only on payday as a reward for something.
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You chose a "touchy" homework topic ... I would narrow it down to either the war in Iraq or how Wal-Mart (an American company) is taking over the world.
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If you are able too fiqure out fact from fiction/spin from hype and be able to accurately read between the lines, I was able read that our leadership,China,India and cheap labor will continue to lower the standard of living in America and the people on the bottom of our economic society will be on the frontline paying with there lives via Poverty stricken,starvation,disease,fda. approvals in the food source that poison,military frontline activity etc.Also that the poor in this country is much larger than being acknowledge plus rapidly growing meanwhile, totally ignored by ALL the Washington insiders on both sides of the isle!The major oil companies still rule and Bush is there Go-boy! They are saying to hell with UAW and the Great lake area industries that once where tops in the industry worldwide,China is buying more oil than ever before! So now because we are global competitors our dumbass lawmakers are going to allow more trade inbalence by allowing China's automobile sales in USA! Get smart public boycott Walmart!
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don't shop where you harbor resentment...\nthat would include USA>>>>>
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China and India are paying their workers a few dollars a day.  These countries are not worth modeling our actions on.  China executes 3500 people a year for crimes as simple as shoplifting.\n\nAmerica is far from Bankrupt.  But we did take a HUGE hit when the dot com busted up the stock market a few years ago.  America not only lost several millions of tax revenue, but had to give millions more in tax rebates to individuals who lost investments.\n\nI think it is extreamly hypocritical to complain about American foreign policy while enjoying the rewards that policy provides.  Do you use oil?  Do you buy shoes, clothes, and other products made overseas?  Do you want your country that has been formed by millions of immigrants to stand idle when horrible things are taking place in their former countries?  Why do so many people complain about 2500 soldier deaths within the last 5 years when in that same time period more than a half million Americans have been murdered, died in alcohol related accidents, and lung cancer, just to name a few preventable deaths?\n\nMy question is why are Americans ruining their own lives while riding the media bandwagon telling us to blame our leaders.\n\nAmerica will survive and will do it helping (and hurting) many other countries along the way.  We will learn to judge our actions on a larger scale (think centuries instead of years).  And it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better as we stretch and learn.  America is still one of the youngest countries on the planet.
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It's called 'exporting good will'. I agree with you that more money needs to be spent at home.\n\nThe money sent to other countries is just a small part of the budget. It's very expensive to run a government. A better solution would be to cut the defense budget. It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.
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1. More valuable - US and Europe\n2. No value at all - Middle East
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yup. America as a whole is only interested in helping /destroying countries that get into it's way / hurt it.\nthere has been Aid , dont get me wrong, and we have accepted refugees FROM YUGOSLAVIA but, there is little media concern which means the general population cannot pester the government to spend more than it wants.\nthere is also crisis in burma, Africa,south america where the loss is like 20x worse than 9/11 but that gets virtually NO PRESS.
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walmart finds the cheapest products from anybody but american workers and finds the dirtiest lowest paid child workers to make thier products !!!\nthey are the worst company in the world yet everybody shops there!!!
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It was always obnoxious.  The US wouldn't have nearly the international political problems today if it hadn't been for Israel.  It started with supporting Israelis that were throwing grenades in to family homes in order to evict the Palestinians.  For what happened to them in Germany, it seems the future Israelis learned a lot about oppressing other people, herding them off to concentration camps, etc.\n\nI don't recall any information about how the original Israelis were oppressed by the Palestinians of the 1940's or the earlier century.  Was there any?  It seems like it was about the equivalent of anyone trying to get revenge on Mongolia... what's the point?  You're only a few hundred years too late...  Are these even the same people?\n\nOf course, now that we have decades of hate between them, there is plenty of atrocity to go around now, but I find it interesting that Israel plays off their aggression with cries of "holocaust" - particularly when that's what they have done to the Palestinian's - and would do if creating death camps were not frowned upon by the international community.\n\nEven so, a great recipie for eternal religious hatred:\n\n* Take one religion convinced that they are the "chosen" of God and are only special by lineage.\n\n* Take one religion whose faith is open to all, but has over the centuries taken a "convert or die" attitude as well as a strong emphasis on "an eye for an eye."\n\n* Mix together in an environment with some resource sarcity.\n\n* Watch the wars bloom.\n\nGod has an interesting sense of humor.\n\nAs for the specialness of Israel, I believe we could baste the whole country with neutron bombs and the rest of the world would be no worse for wear, just as the US could be wiped and the rest of the world would find some way to go on.  It's the vomitous pompus stupidity that keeps the problems kindling and I have NO respect for such insolence, just as I have no respect for people that kill innocents.\n\nMy guess is that the US keeps funding Israel in order to keep jews fighting muslims to destabilize the region.
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well it is china (even japan said the US will lose if we figth china)\nwell it will just make more war but the real reason is that there is no point in putting money in a country when you can not take something back (ie iraq = oil)