Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

NSA Spying Costs Billions in Exports (And Maybe This is What Their Game Is)

About $35 billion in exports over the next three years.

Which is going to cost some thousands of people their jobs.

Way to go, you fuckers.

Another reason why they may have an interest in establishing the National Security State is that they think this guy is right that everything will come crashing down in the next seven years or so and they want to be ready to toss the rebels into FEMA-camps.*

Of course, getting ready to impose pervasive surveillance of all Americans is easier than trying to fix the base problem of income inequality. Or blowing up half of the law schools (and all of the MBA mills business schools) in the country. **
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*Just kidding about the camps.
** Not kidding. We should really do this.


3 comments:

S O said...

It also costs billions directly.

The bigger pricture is probably worse. I remember the GWB admin time when American businessmen travelled to Europe for sales and meetings and the first they had to say during snack breaks was that they disavowed the GWB policies.

Similarly, American businessmen had a tough time at Farnborough directly after the U.S.Senate cheated on Airbus and cancelled the huge tender for tanker aircraft.


Business is still a lot about personal relations and individual's decisions. Many products can be sourced at identical quality and near-identical price from different companies and countries, and a manager disliking an American business contact may easily give a contract worth millions to another company instead.
That's why the GWB policies were horrible for American businessmen in Europe - and now the NSA spying has become personal for Europe's businessmen. It's not just about some stupid war or other acts of disrespect and civilization declines such as torture. This time it's a direct attack on the business interests.

Joe said...

Amen, SO. I was one of them. I had 3 or 4 versions in French of, "we tried to vote for the other guy, we really did!"

wrm said...

From where I'm sitting I get the distinct impression that your government is trying to sink your economy.

I can't buy a chinese-made red dot sight on eBay and get it shipped to me. ITAR. I have to bundle spare screws and springs for my Freedom Arms | Thompson Center | Marlin | Winchester into small packages of under $100 each. ITAR.

For a long time firearms and related stuff was a large part of USA economy, but let's stop doing that for the children.