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Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub  If sightseeing and cultural beauty is your thing, then Hong Kong isn't the best place to go. Personally, I'm a big city guy, so I'm sure I'm going to absolutely love Hong Kong, especially with such low sales taxes that they have.
Dom, you don't have to sell me on how Pelosi needs to be decapitated; the same goes for Barney Frank, he and Pelosi are the two biggest supporters of the massive bailout bills and have been pushing the subprime lending to irresponsible homeowners.
Now let's get to the root of this problem. I'm glad that you're holding the Republican party and the Bush administration responsible for some of the problems. You're not as biased as I thought you were. Greenspan, appointed by Reagan by the way, and Phil Gramm were amongst the leading contributers of repealing the Glass-Steagall Act. You can blame Bill Clinton all you want, I think he was a culprit as well, but he was just mostly doing what Greenspan had suggested. These problems all started with Reagan and Greenspan; they are the root of this cause.
I know you and Robert both think that Carter was a horrible president, but I actually thought he was on the right track with his vision for the country. Granted he was a horrible politician because he refused to be an appeaser and add pork to pass a bill, but he wanted to break our ties from foreign oil to avoid dependence on foreign oil and allocating our wealth to the Middle East. He did not want our nation to become a nation of consumers in debt. |
I kept trying to tell you I am in the center, I just lean republican becuase the fiscal side is the most important to me.
I am still not going to blame Reagan. Way too many things have happened since he was president to lay it at his feet. Not to mention the dems held both house and senate for 8 years after his presidency. 4 of those 8 years they had a supermajority and could have pushed anything they wanted through, but didn't. I don't really blame Clinton, I just think he should have known better.
As for Carter. You have to understand that I was 7 when he became president. During his presidency about 2 years in, my dad lost his company, tax rate killed him and business was down, and my mom lost her job as a secretary. For the next three years they struggled working wherever they could. My mom as a bartender, dad as basically day labor for construction. I remember watching the Iran hostage crisis on TV and how innefectual we were to get them back. Then comes Reagan, and I do realize my perception is a bit jaded because of my personal situation, but during Reagan my parents got back on their feet, the Iranians released the hostages. etc etc. That is just a smal part of it.
Carter was a nice guy but he couldn't get anything done.
Hong Kong. Some nice parts but, a lot of it is a shithole. Wuhan is no slouch on size though, something like 9 million. It was just less commercialized. Hong Kong is like a big Vegas shopping mall, bright, shiny, glitzy, everything is for sale, and a lot of rude people.
Wuhan, while freakin hot and humid as shit, and we got a mini monsoon, still was pretty cool. I was surpised by the number of people I met that spoke english, and how polite they were. That is what struck me the most. Only real problem I had there is I hate seafood, to the point of it makes me naseous and it is everywhere. I don't even like the smell. I speak very very little mandarin so lets say sometimes, when our translater wasn't there or was busy, there was confusion. See whiteboy gag.