OCCOM BILL wrote:The "Governator' inherited the problems in California. If you had a clue what you were talking about, you'd realize that's why there
is a Governator. Interestingly, the State still sits higher on the GDP list than your beloved Country. Now before you go screaming "that's not fair!... it's a population skewed figure". I'll remind (or more likely inform) you that the United States' Per Capita GDP is second only to Luxembourg's. Next you'll likely scream growth, right? Ill advised as well; since your beloved Country's GDP - real growth rate(%) was a paltry 2.4% compared to the United State's relatively stable 4.4%.
Interesting to note, that Canada did manage to match the European Union's collective average at 2.4% though, isn't it? Of course; they were dragged down by France's 2.1%, Germany's 1.7%, Italy's 1.3% and the Netherlands stagnant 1.2%. I guess National Health Care isn't the only thing Canada has in common with some of their European Idols, eh? :wink:
The United States' enormous dept and trade deficits are hardly new. Do a little research and you'll see she's continued to thrive despite these very real problems. Your focus on negatives only is never going to paint you a clear picture... and most certainly isn't going to support your outrageous claims. It requires the entire membership of the European Union to come close to matching the United States' enormous GDP (that's the only place you could have gotten your VERY misleading figure of $12 trillion, right?
). Like it or not: Not only does the United States remain a superpower... but they are the world's only superpower in both military and economic might.
Got that?
Got what? This? 
Tonight Show With Jay Leno" The Governator of Calif speaks:
"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento." -on "The Tonight Show"
"As you know, I don't need to take any money from anybody. I have plenty of money myself. I will make the decisions for the people."
"We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!"
"The public doesn't care about figures." -discussing his economic views
"Don't worry about that." -on the environment
"From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they're taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they're taxed....This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax."
"I saw this toilet bowl. How many times do you get away with this ?- to take a woman, grab her upside down, and bury her face in a toilet bowl? I wanted to have something floating there ... The thing is, you can do it, because in the end, I didn't do it to a woman ?- she's a machine! We could get away with it without being crucified by who-knows-what group." -describing a scene in "Terminator 3"
"This is really embarrassing. I just forgot our state governor's name, but I know that you will help me recall him." -speaking to a taxpayer advocacy group
"As much as when you see a blonde with great tits and a great ass, you say to yourself, 'Hey, she must be stupid or must have nothing else to offer,' which maybe is the case many times. But then again there is the one that is as smart as her breasts look, great as her face looks, beautiful as her whole body looks gorgeous, you know, so people are shocked." -in an interview with Esquire
"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
"Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day."
"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
"I have inhaled, exhaled everything."
"That was another thing I will never forgive the Republican Party for. I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period." -on the Clinton impeachment
"I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good f**k she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care." -in a 1977 interview with Oui
"Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff."
"The c**k isn't a muscle so it doesn't grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can't make it bigger through exercise, that's for sure."
"Nixon was always being attacked sexually. It was always said that he was a fag and that he had no sexual relations with his wife for 15 years and that was why he liked power. And Hitler had only one ball, and that was why he wanted to conquer the world." -in a 1977 interview with Time Out
"My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name, because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy, but I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt." -on his friend and fellow Austrian Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi war criminal
"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave." -in a 1990 interview with U.S. News
"I was always dreaming about very powerful people - dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered." -in the 1977 film "Pumping Iron"
quite an impressive fellow
if you like idiots
