"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:22:50 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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During Clinton's eight years, some 22 million jobs were added to the
economy.

Fun facts (and don't think I'm slamming Clinton's entire record,
because
Bush would've done the same thing, if he could figure out how):

One way Clinton created jobs was by personally lobbying the Saudis to
be
sure they made a series of enormous commercial aircraft purchases
from
Boeing, instead of Airbus. Just one problem: They couldn't afford to
pay
for
them, so they finagled the cash in a number of other ways. One reason
they
couldn't afford the purchase is that Saudi ministers get what they
quaintly
call "commissions" when foreign companies sell to them. In the case
of
the
aircraft, estimates of the commissions range as high as 45% of the
purchase
price. Similar commissions are paid for the purchase of military
equipment.
Saudi Arabia is the single largest consumer of American defense
machinery,
next to our own armed forces. They buy the stuff, but don't use it
much,
since we're pretty much their sworn protectors in the region.




What's important is that the Saudis bought from Boeing, not from
Airbus,
and while I am aware that Boeing buys supplies from all over the world,
buying Boeing planes means jobs for Americans and buying Airbus planes
mean jobs for overseas workers.


Here's the good part: Like feeding Bon Bons to a fat lady who has no self
control, we send a constant stream of salesmen to the Saudis to be sure
they
keep buying from us, in return for our oil addiction. Problem: In
addition
to their uncontrolled spending at OUR trough, the entire Sa'ud family
competes with one another in terms of spending on yachts & huge homes all
over the world. They're bankrupting the country. The Muslim Brotherhood
sees
us as being intimately connected with the likely collapse of the Saudi
economy due to what you or I would agree is completely outrageous
behavior
by people in power.


But according to Harry, it's ok as long as they're buying from us and
giving our workers jobs. Perhaps you do see a bigger picture than
Harry does.....

Dave


Dave, I see a larger picture than almost anyone. I chalk this up to my
continual use of old technology: Brains and books. You can learn about the
latter on the web. ROFL! The former....too late for that.