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Will China take nation?

By Keith Shafer
Augusta
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012
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    A Missouri state senate candidate recently said, “We are going to be gifted with a health-care plan that we are forced to purchase and be fined if we don’t, signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, by a government that has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.”

    If Barack Obama is re-elected, every American should obtain the Chinese version of Rosetta Stone language-learning software. When you fail to pay your mortgage, the bank takes your home. When America fails to pay its mortgage to China, China will take our country. We won’t have paid our “fair share” – the handover will be legal, and Americans will have signed the promissory note.

    Don’t let Obama and the Democrats mortgage America to the Chinese. Union riots and protests are already occurring here and, as the federal government goes bankrupt, millions more will take to the streets to protest in every American city. Then, as the Chinese military arrives to take what will be their property, calm will be restored, and those who used to be Americans will visit Obama’s presidential library and remember.

    Keith Shafer

    Augusta

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    shrimp for breakfast
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    shrimp for breakfast 10/04/12 - 12:19 am
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    I don't think so Kieth

    If the Chinese decide they want America I'm sure we'd send over some thermonukes to deter them from taking that action.
    If Iran decides to build a nuclear bomb we'll never have to worry about them again. We have already told Iran they will never have a nuclear weapon and I'm pretty sure we said if you decide to build one then you can kiss your country goodbye because it is about to cease to exist.

    burninater
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    burninater 10/04/12 - 01:52 am
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    Everyday I thank all that is

    Everyday I thank all that is that I don't wake up to a world seen through paranoid and fearful eyes. If I could grant serenity to those who have wrapped themselves around such a core of apocalyptic distrust and unrelenting pessimism, I would do it in a heartbeat.

    Jon Lester
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    Jon Lester 10/04/12 - 03:21 am
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    The Pimsleur program would be better.

    Seriously, you don't really think all of that would happen in 4 years, do you? Even assuming that's the administration's agenda. Did you expect the same from Clinton's second term?

    Techfan
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    Techfan 10/04/12 - 04:34 am
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    Keith doesn't do much research

    You can blame the greedy corporations for sending our jobs to China. Since we've been spending about half of the entire worlds' military expenditures for decades, we have exponentially the military capability of China, or the entire world combined. As to the debt, China owns a little over 8%. Over 75% is owned by US citizens. Nice try Keith, but please try to be accurate when you send a LTE.

    seenitB4
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    seenitB4 10/04/12 - 07:29 am
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    I'm skeeered

    Yawn....they are coming ....
    well ok we do have some nuts here....but they ain't getting my gun....my house ......
    oooh wait a minute....I need to write a letter...:)

    grouse
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    grouse 10/04/12 - 07:49 am
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    Social Security and Medicare

    Unpublished

    shrimp for breakfast
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    shrimp for breakfast 10/04/12 - 08:33 am
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    Oh no here comes China!

    Quick everybody HIDE! Don't answer the phone! No one is home in America please leave a message and someone will get back with you as soon as possible.

    Retired Army
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    Retired Army 10/04/12 - 08:45 am
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    Want Egg Roll With That?

    Hey Keith, it's not often one can get the right and the left to agree, but I have to give kudo's where they're due.

    I guess paranoia and too much Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity et al can unite this nation.

    faithson
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    faithson 10/04/12 - 09:04 am
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    this is what you get

    yep, letters like this are what you get when the fear mongering fringe right's message inculcates the masses. a message of defeat by the hands of those who's only wish is 'destroying all that is good'.

    Angie H
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    Angie H 10/04/12 - 10:06 am
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    "You can blame the greedy

    "You can blame the greedy corporations for sending our jobs to China."

    Wrong! You can blame the government that makes it financially better to send jobs to china.

    You can also blame Obama who sent his "green jobs" to China.

    wayne2410
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    wayne2410 10/04/12 - 10:10 am
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    China will not have to take

    Unpublished

    rmwhitley
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    rmwhitley 10/04/12 - 10:24 am
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    You can blame

    Unpublished

    Angie H
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    Angie H 10/04/12 - 12:15 pm
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    Every time a liberal refers

    Every time a liberal refers to someone as greedy, I have to ask the question: Why is it greedy to want to keep the money you earned, but not greedy to want to take that money away from them?

    swcohen
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    swcohen 10/04/12 - 12:03 pm
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    Best results from Penton Overseas "Learn In Your Car Mandarin."

    Hey everybody, I know I'm not supposed to mention him, but didn't George W. Bush use money borrowed from China, among others, to finance a war that the Grateful People of Iraq were supposed to pay us back for with their oil... but didn't?

    It'd be easy to check... I'll bet Cheney saved the receipts.

    Angie H
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    Angie H 10/04/12 - 12:08 pm
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    "the Grateful People of Iraq

    "the Grateful People of Iraq were supposed to pay us back for with their oil"

    That was never part of the deal.....unless you believe the lie that we only went to war for oil.

    Gary Ross
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    Gary Ross 10/04/12 - 01:01 pm
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    One thing is for certain...

    One thing is for certain, and I'm sure everyone will agree; our freedoms are being eroded away each and every day. All those, throughout our history, who have given the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom are probably rolling in their graves while they watch us do nothing but argue and allow it to happen.

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    Little Lamb 10/04/12 - 01:21 pm
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    Not quite

    Regarding Iran and nuclear weapons, shrimp for breakfast posted:

    I'm pretty sure we said if you decide to build one then you can kiss your country goodbye because it is about to cease to exist.

    No, President Obama said we would issue sterner warnings and tougher sanctions.

    faithson
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    faithson 10/04/12 - 04:36 pm
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    Angie..

    I beg to differ... if you don't think all that OIL played into the decision to INVADE Iraq, I'd love to show you some FL swampland my bother is trying to unload on some innocent bystander.

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