China overtakes the US as the worlds biggest economy

[lombardsoup]

I can get a box of toilet paper for a doller. You'd have to be pretty stupid to use a whole roll on one go.

You mean the cheap Dollar General shit that breaks apart in your ass as you wipe?

Quality American products

[Clockworkkiller]

Legitimate question: how much has the US tapped into its own oil supply?  If memory serves they're still buying most of theirs from the Saudis.

Actually most of our imported oil is coming from canada, and South America, we still get a fair share from the Middle East but that number is declining.

[lombardsoup]

Actually most of our oil is coming from canada, and South America, we still get a fair share from the Middle East but that number is declining

You'd think the US would issue more domestic drilling permits.  They have supply but don't use it.

[Clockworkkiller]

You'd think the US would issue more domestic drilling permits.  They have supply but don't use it.

And we are, notice the quick edit I made, that's just our imported oil. We are producing much of our own oil now.

[lombardsoup]

And we are, notice the quick edit I made, that's just our imported oil. We are producing much of our own oil now.

If that's true, why did the US refuse the Keystone oil pipeline?  I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from here.

[Clockworkkiller]

If that's true, why did the US refuse the Keystone oil pipeline?  I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from here.

Because Obama is a hippy

[lombardsoup]

Because Obama is a hippy

His predecessor was just as bad.  And his, and his.

For once, can there be a US president that isn't a C student or an activist?

[LordBerenger]

For once, can there be a US president that isn't a C student or an activist?

No, they'll get killed

[lombardsoup]

No, they'll get killed

A guy broke into the White House a few weeks ago, it certainly wouldn't be hard

[Clockworkkiller]

A guy broke into the White House a few weeks ago, it certainly wouldn't be hard

I didn't really pay attention to that, but from what I could make of it. He just rush the gate/hoped the fence and made a mad dash across the lawn. Secret service shut him down before he was anywhere near the building. All IIRC

[Voncrow]

I didn't really pay attention to that, but from what I could make of it. He just rush the gate/hoped the fence and made a mad dash across the lawn. Secret service shut him down before he was anywhere near the building. All IIRC

A informed clockwork is a scary clockwork

[lombardsoup]

A informed clockwork is a scary clockwork

Except he got in, with a knife.  Doors were also unlocked

Back on topic, there is one industry that the US can beat China in, and that's marijuana production.  Huge, booming business.  Anything else, forget about it.

[Lt_Anders]

Except he got in, with a knife.  Doors were also unlocked

Back on topic, there is one industry that the US can beat China in, and that's marijuana production.  Huge, booming business.  Anything else, forget about it.

Weapons and Military Industries.

The US makes more weapons than most countries use in a year.

[lombardsoup]

Weapons and Military Industries.

The US makes more weapons than most countries use in a year.

The Russians and the Chinese can match US production.  Sales, however, I'll agree on.

[Turkhammer]

Everyones eyes are on China while the old powers of (primarily mainland) Western Europe are regaining their pre-WWII status almost without comment (except for increasingly anti-semitic ones), EU countries having for a good while surpassed the US in gross domestic product, both in total and per capita. The US still has the by far biggest army expenditure, though, as you would expect of a nation having nurtured protected for the last 60 years the ghosts of the  broke dick old European colonial interests countries so they could spend all their money on extravagant social systems and forget about defending themselves against Russia. China is rising, but is still an incredibly backwards, rural country, and mostly an assembly plant for said Western industry.

Corrected.