thanks for your concern, though…
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Finance Minister Jin Renqing said on Friday the aim is to make more profitable use of its $1 trillion in foreign currency reserves that have piled up as it posted huge trade surpluses year after year. Most of those funds are now parked in safe, but relatively low-yielding U.S. Treasury securities and other dollar-denominated assets.

“We can achieve more profit from the investments,” Jin said at a news conference. “We are now preparing the organization of this new corporation.”

Bernake’s reaction to the economic downturn in America was to LOWER the interest rates. Now it is China’s move.

You can list all kind of statistics you want , the thrust of my argument was that they (Democrats) did nothing tangible regarding this war in Iraq…nothing to end or slow this war in iraq.

In fact we have more troops in Iraq now than when Democrats took over the House and Senate ,
and we have spent tens of billions of dollars more.
I also read some statstics ..which says that voters are angry with Democrats,and their approval ratings is down due to what I said,
‘am I making this up !!!..
Go and read,and educate yourself before you post and get ANGRY.
I am not like you who is a one party man..I have the freedom to vote whom I think is the best.
To call me a MEAN MOUTH for stating the obvious !! I was not talking about Democrats unity data or anything like that you posted…I was making the correlation between the situation in Iraq,and the promise Democrats made.
If you don’t understand that…get you a cup of cool aid.

In fact, the Democrats in Congress have done a bang-up job. With only a marginal majority, and a resolutely obstructionist Republican minority, they still fought the administration’s agenda to an historic degree:

“President Bush’s success rating in the Democratic-controlled House has fallen this year to a half-century low, and he prevailed on only 14 percent of the 76 roll call votes on which he took a clear position.

“So far this year, Democrats have backed the majority position of their caucus 91 percent of the time on average on such votes. That marks the highest Democratic unity score in 51 years.”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1728952&mesg_id=1728952
http://public.cq.com/documents/cqt/news110-000002576765.html

It is interesting that nothing has changed since last elections of 2006…
It was Senator Lieberman on October 11,2002(he was a Democrat then), who gave Bush and Cheney the authorization they needed to start a war with Iraq,by sponsering a Senate resolution to topple Saddam Hussein.

Now the same Lieberman (now Independent) who sponsered 2007 Senate resolution setting up Bush and Cheney for another war with Iran.
It made no difference whether Lieberman (D) or (I), Democrats followed him with the big support.
And when you hear Hillary, for example , shouting that she is the one that will stop the Iraqi war…don’t believe her…look at her record. And that goes for many who betrayed their voters.

After 9 months in power, Democrats did nothing to stop, or slow this war in Iraq.
They spent billions and billions of dollars instead financing this war, and now they are getting us set up in another bigger conflict with Iran,which nobody who voted can predict,or know what are the consequences of his vote or what this war might bring.
But looking at the past rosy pictures drawn,predictions and promises given about previous conflicts,one must be extremely worried and concerned about what this coming conflict with Iran will bring.

Is tracy jake? Because in one of “her” first posts, Rory asked “anyone else?” at the end of the post, just like jake has a habit of doing..

Comment by foreyes — September 28, 2007 @ 10:59 pm

Understood.

Comment by foreyes — September 28, 2007 @ 10:29 pm

I know what favelas are and how nasty life can be in them. It was a play on words, not a put-down on the people who live in them. There’s a troll named “Daryll” who comes here all the time, and he’s always talking about going to Brazil to cure tha “homo-sexuals”.

I’ve also lived w/ real poverty in my life. Haven’t been a homeless street kid in Rio, but you can be painfully poor in this country too. Trust me. I’ve been there.

Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — September 28, 2007 @ 10:18 pm

Republic, your comments are usually right on target and I enjoy reading them. Not this one; favelas are, if you didn’t know, Brazilian slums on the hill. It’s not just a matter of “a couple of letters”. Be careful next time, you hear?

Comment by Zooey — September 28, 2007 @ 10:22 pm

Ouch… or as they say in Scotland…

Oooochmon..