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Obama now wants to create a new cabinet position, Secretary of Business. One wonders if he knows he has a Secretary of Commerce. Or if he understands that business is commerce.
The Department of Business would consolidate the Dept. of Commerce, the Small Business Administration, the U.S. trade representative's office, the Export-Import Bank and other government offices to form one agency. The Washington Post reported Obama's proposal would save $3 billion over 10 years."
This proposal is backed by the US Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, and Michael Bloomberg.
It was a last minute panic induced shiny object put out by a losing candidate struggling to find a second term agenda.
Sure consolidating all those agencies is a good idea as long as you use it as an opportunity to cull out all the dead wood. But we don't need a new cabinet secretary. Commerce can do it as it is.
I doubt the Chamber of Commerce would endorse this idea if they thought it would be a bureaucratic boondoggle.
A generally well written article. Barrack is the man for the job at this time. I'd also like to point that your pessimism is not warranted. Recall what you said about Africa a while ago?
Here here Economist. You rise above the merely partisan.
Who would be a better alternative according to the Economist??? Someone with NO POLITICAL IDENTITY??? If you agree with Clint Eastwood that the President has NOT EARNED a Second Term: you can be sure only that his Second Term performance will get WORSE not BETTER because of being rewarded for sub par at best performance!
My greatest worry, unlike the Economist, is the bone crushing POWER VACUUM created by the GREAT AMERICAN RETREAT which empowers the WORST OF THE WORST World Wide. The unthinkable horror consequences include but do not end with a Nuclear Iran providing its Hezbollah terror arm nuclear missiles and even suitcase nuclear terror devices. Given the weakness and mendacity shown by this Administration in the miserable Benghazi MELTDOWN, any Middle East State would be nuts to rely on Washington for its survival!! That creates really scary Nuclear Scenarios that most Economist readers don't want to consider but are STILL VERY MUCH THERE! Four more years! Are they going to be as peaceful as the last four: I very much doubt it!!
Boy you sure like to yell. Must be uncomfortable for those you live with.
Are your ears so tender and sensitive that any SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE is NOT POSSIBLE for you!! Maybe you need the services of a highly experienced Audiologist!
Are your ears so tender and sensitive that any SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE is NOT POSSIBLE for you!! Maybe you need the services of a highly experienced Audiologist!
So you think the American leadership that killed Osama Bin Laden and has decimated Al Qaeda leadership is in retreat, simply because it has not bombed Iran or wantonly killed Libyans for the Benghazi massacre?
As we know, Iran has not acquired nuclear weapons and the American leadership needs to know who to hold responsible before taking action in Libya. Bombing countries and killing people randomly do not constitute strength or leadership - they are cowardly acts, the type that got 5,000 Americans and 100,000+ Iraqis killed during the Iraq war. All to get one man called Saddam Hussein. Is this what you advocate for as American leadership?
I think leadership is balancing your strength with its judicious use. Moammar Gadhafi of Libya was eliminated due to smart use of American power; Iran is being weakened via technological warfare and the strictest economic sanction applied to any country. In the end, true American leadership is keeping the world safe by marshaling all responsible countries and powers against the forces of evil, hopefully without killing people needlessly until there are no other options. This is how the cold war with Russia (USSR) was won, and we can do it again.
+1 for MintyJazz
+1 for MintyJazz
Well somebody skipped History class.
Pop quiz: How have almost all empires in history ended?
A) They didn't try hard enough to control the world.
B) They tried to hard to control the world, and spread themselves too thin.
C) The didn't use enough ALL CAPS phrases in their writings.
Quick answer: YES!!! This administration is cynical and craven in using information and gains under the Bush administration to cover its retreat and abandonment of American influence and leverage world-wide much to the jeopardy of OUR WAY OF LIFE AND FREEDOMS. The location of Osama Bin Laden was identified by the Bush administration, I repeat the Bush administration but NO COMMENTATOR cops to that reality or the fact that those POLITICALLY INCORRECT FORCED INTERROGATORIES at Guantanamo were crucial in making that find.
Compare the boastful national secrets open house the Obama White House staged after the Bin Laden killing and the mendacity, silence, blame gaming and cover up after the Benghazi Meltdown. What could show POOR LEADERSHIP ABILITY MORE than when this Administration greedily grabs 100% of the credit for Bin Laden's killing and exaggerates hugely its significance and seeks to dump 100% of the blame for a foreign policy disaster related to an Al Qaeda VICTORY in Benghazi on 9/11 JUST BEFORE A NATIONAL ELECTION!!
Quick answer: YES!!! This administration is cynical and craven in using information and gains under the Bush administration to cover its retreat and abandonment of American influence and leverage world-wide much to the jeopardy of OUR WAY OF LIFE AND FREEDOMS. The location of Osama Bin Laden was identified by the Bush administration, I repeat the Bush administration but NO COMMENTATOR cops to that reality or the fact that those POLITICALLY INCORRECT FORCED INTERROGATORIES at Guantanamo were crucial in making that find.
Compare the boastful national secrets open house the Obama White House staged after the Bin Laden killing and the mendacity, silence, blame gaming and cover up after the Benghazi Meltdown. What could show POOR LEADERSHIP ABILITY MORE than when this Administration greedily grabs 100% of the credit for Bin Laden's killing and exaggerates hugely its significance and seeks to dump 100% of the blame for a foreign policy disaster related to an Al Qaeda VICTORY in Benghazi on 9/11 JUST BEFORE A NATIONAL ELECTION!!
You are arrogant enough to believe that the rise of a Fascist Iran and an expansionist and repressive China represents "progress" and a STEP FORWARD for HUMANITY!! I am more humble and believe that that GREATER FREEDOMS FOR INDIVIDUALS is the ONLY path which elevates rather than degrades humanity. The United States still has been the ONLY POWER IN HISTORY to deliberately promote INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM worldwide. That is probably what YOU MOST DISLIKE about America and therefor clamor for bad policies to bring about its demise!
You are an expert on history? No evidence whatsoever! I claim no expertise but I do have knowledge and more importantly common sense and a mind which is not controlled by narrow blinding ideologies. Try thinking something new today. It gets good and habit forming after a while!
You don't have to claim expertise; it shows.
Oh You: our debt is at 16 trillion, our culture needs work, our infrastructure is getting left behind, our education is 17th in the world, our nation is obese, our medical care is unaffordable.
We have enough problems at home to figure out before we go policing the world.
And the bigger the stick the US swings, the smaller the stick every other partner country will swing.
Case in point: Iraq
We swung a huge stick and only a few grudgingly helped out after much cajoling and lying on our side. After that, our Partner countries learned that we were war-mongering liars, not to be trusted. I travel, I talk to people. Everything changed after Iraq. They went from thinking highly of us to thinking lowly of us. It's good to have friends; you might need them later.
Case in point 2: Libya invasion
We swung a smaller, behind the scenes stick, and other countries took initiative. Mission Accomplished, and our partner country populations actually think better of us now, than before. It's good to have friends; you might need them later.
Statistically speaking Obama's behind-the-scenes stealth warfare (Stuxnet, drone attacks, swinging a smaller stick to get other more involved) have been far more effective than Bush's Big-Stick swinging. They've achieved major results with small international backlash; precisely what we want. The reason you can't see this is because you have so much common sense, right?
As a wise man once said: "Common sense is not always common".
Common sense is not common but your double think and perversity is a real STAND OUT!! You have the arrogance to cite a 16 plus TRILLION dollar national (Federal) debt. All public debt is north of 22 TRILLION at least. State and local debt is mostly UNFUNDED PUBLIC PUBLIC WORKER PENSION VOTE BUYING GIVEAWAYS by politicians.
Given this ocean of red ink you insist that more government spending and taxation are the top priorities. Running up government obligations at the rate of 5 BILLION dollars a DAY is too little for you! Maybe you are in perfect agreement with the vast pool of commentators and visitors to the Economist website but that does NOT create a reality out of economic rubbish and arrogance!
Common sense is not common but your double think and perversity is a real STAND OUT!! You have the arrogance to cite a 16 plus TRILLION dollar national (Federal) debt. All public debt is north of 22 TRILLION at least. State and local debt is mostly UNFUNDED PUBLIC PUBLIC WORKER PENSION VOTE BUYING GIVEAWAYS by politicians.
Given this ocean of red ink you insist that more government spending and taxation are the top priorities. Running up government obligations at the rate of 5 BILLION dollars a DAY is too little for you! Maybe you are in perfect agreement with the vast pool of commentators and visitors to the Economist website but that does NOT create a reality out of economic rubbish and arrogance!
Yes I'm a real pervert because I don't agree with you. Not agreeing with you makes me a pervert, yes?
So you want to lower our Debt by jumping into wars with China & Iran?
Oh now it all makes so much sense. Thank for making things so clear for me. Praise Jesus for your divine insight that you have so humbly bestowed upon me.
Surprise!!!! Bin Laden was located by the despicable Bush administration in part because of its CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY interrogation program at Guantanamo. Your Hero never gave ANYONE other than his administration starting with himself credit for the Bin Laden take down and UNLIKE the Benghazi MELTDOWN had a White House open house for months handing out any and all intelligence secrets and methods concerning Bin Laden's killing. In addition the FALSE narrative of the Death of Al Qaeda was manufactured out of the gross exaggeration of the significance of killing a burned out terror had been!!
Surprise!!!! Bin Laden was located by the despicable Bush administration in part because of its CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY interrogation program at Guantanamo. Your Hero never gave ANYONE other than his administration starting with himself credit for the Bin Laden take down and UNLIKE the Benghazi MELTDOWN had a White House open house for months handing out any and all intelligence secrets and methods concerning Bin Laden's killing. In addition the FALSE narrative of the Death of Al Qaeda was manufactured out of the gross exaggeration of the significance of killing a burned out terror had been!!
"This is how the cold war with Russia (USSR) was won, and we can do it again." What more certain way is there to LOOSE a war than to fight the last one!! The President himself has said REPEATEDLY Iran's nuclear threat CANNOT BE CONTAINED! Did you actually listen to the President's statements on Iran in the debates??? The obvious reason Iran cannot be contained is that it gives its serious firepower to its wholly owed and controlled fanatical Hezbollah terror unit. Hezbollah with nuclear missiles and suitcase nuclear devices is one hundred times the threat to America and World Peace that Soviet nuclear ballistic missiles in Cuba were and Iran won't back down or off as Khrushchev did!!
Frankly, it's alright by me if you want to give credit to Bush for the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It's also okay with me if you give Obama no credit for anything.
What I really question is your push for America to go to war with Iran before it is necessary to do so.
Here is where I stand on this. If the US has credible intelligence that Iran is about to obtain a nuclear weapon and we cannot stop them diplomatically, I will be all for using US military might to stop them. And my reason is very simple – until we exhaust other non-military means, we don't need another Iraq with 5,000 Americans dead; 100,000+ Iranians dead; at a cost of $3 trillion.
Where do you stand?
If we wait until a nuclear 9/11 occurs then we will have the unthinkable choice of surrendering our way of life or a full scale nuclear war with hundreds of Millions DEAD and CIVILIZATION
in perhaps permanent ASHES!! If you want to wait for doomsday, fine!!! I don't!
If we wait until a nuclear 9/11 occurs then we will have the unthinkable choice of surrendering our way of life or a full scale nuclear war with hundreds of Millions DEAD and CIVILIZATION
in perhaps permanent ASHES!! If you want to wait for doomsday, fine!!! I don't!
So, are you suggesting that we bomb Iran now?
You come up with your own conclusions but letting a bunch of suicidal and fatalistic fanatics control the world is madness on our part!
Just wait and see IS NOT A SURVIVABLE OPTION: even the President in the debates ADMITS that.
I understand your position and respect it. I just believe there is a better way. Very likely, it will play itself out in the next 4 years (regardless of who wins the presidency).
All the best to you!
You can exercise your views BUT the reality is that those who threaten to destroy whole countries and achieve WORLD DOMINATION on the cheap MEAN IT!! You just don't get it and when you do the price will be beyond your imagination!!
Economist, you admit you were fooled by Obama four years ago. I wasn't. Why should I listen to you now?
There's a name for the kind of fools who let themselves be fooled twice: Obama-Sap!
Oh Harry,
Have you taken your medicine today?
Why do you lie?
Where in that article does it say they were fooled by Obama 4 years ago?
Do you think they regret their decision of choosing Obama over McCain? Methinks not.
Every time you lie on the internet, a baby penguin slips and busts his ass. Stop being cruel to the baby penguins.
Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again.
Ha…Because you remained a fool!
The biggest fallacy in this article, is the idea that Republicans balance budgets. In my voting life they've never balanced them they've only exploded them. Perhaps The Economist wasn't paying attention to Reagan, Bush and Bush. All three of them claim the same voodo economics that Romney is claiming today.
Exactly right. The Democrats have historically been tax and spend, while Republicans have historically been borrow and spend. If anything, Obama's fiscal policy is worryingly close to historical Republican norms.
We're going to need higher taxes to get out of this deficit crisis, and the Romney/Ryan plan is to dig deeper and faster. I've got serious doubts about Obama, especially on due process and Constitutionally protected rights, but there's no scenario under which Romney/Ryan is the better pair to have in charge.
Reagan and Bush I spent a few bucks defeating the Soviet Union. If we only had Democratic presidents we would still be fighting the cold war. The only reason Clinton was able to balance the budget was the peacetime dividend and exploding economies in Eastern Europe he inherited from Bush I.
Errant click
One of the many character flaws of Pres. Reagan taking credit for something that he had nothing to do with. Communism is a failed system that's why the Soviet Union failed. It started its downfall 40 years before the Afghanistan war was what put the nails in the coffin it would happen under any president. Reagan ran up nearly 3,000,000,000,000 in debt because that's what Republicans do. They spend on their watch and then demand Democrats cut.
Just like we're still fighting in Kosovo, Bosnia and Iraq right?
What did Reagan do to end the Cold War?
And why did it cost so much money?
Your facts are all little off. It was a GOP Congress from 1994-2000 that kept President Clinton in line. Each of bis own budgets forecast deficits, including the last one for 2001. Reagan had Tip O'Neill and a calcified Democrat Congress.
Both parties have contributed to the deficit. The public is complicit, like the Greeks, and will, one way or the other, duly get what they so richly deserve.
Bull, Congress gets to spend money. Those so-called Clinton balanced budgets were not Clinton at all. They were Gingrich led house doing. The president does not have the power to balance a budget, but he can stop one from happening.
Bull, Congress gets to spend money. Those so-called Clinton balanced budgets were not Clinton at all. They were Gingrich led house doing. The president does not have the power to balance a budget, but he can stop one from happening.
Congress gets to spend money. Those so-called Clinton balanced budgets were not Clinton at all. They were Gingrich led house's doing. The president does not have the power to balance a budget, but he can stop one from happening. Romney balanced budgets his whole life, even in a blue state.
I always chuckle when Reagan is given credit for the fall of the Soviet Union; yet the US economic explosion during Clinton is attributed to some good fortune elsewhere. You should at least be consistent if you want to be believable.
In case you didn't know it, the decision to contain the Soviet Union was made in 1946 just after World War II (read more about it on The Economist web site here: http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/11/quick-study-george-kenna...). Every successive American president simply carried the policy forward – and the Soviet Union eventually fell under its own crappy system of government. Yes, it happened during Bush I (after Reagan)
If you want to assign blame and credit to every American president based on what happened on their watch (as you did for Reagan and not for Clinton), you will quickly realize this:
Since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, the US private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. 24 million under Republican presidents, and a whopping 42 million under Democratic presidents. Those are the facts.
I won't bother to tell you under whose watch the massive September 11, 2001 attacks in the US happened (even though I am not entirely holding that president responsible).
America can do much better if it's willing to deal in facts instead of both parties bending realities to their ideologies.
Contain is not defeat. Carter continued the containment and Reagan made a decision to defeat. The cost was the weapons buildup.
I do agree that the main reason that the Soviet Union collapsed was their own system. Also communication technologies. Reagan's policies sped it up. But with that massive collapse to study why would anyone want to do anything like what they did?
Obama and his team are doing their best to "fundamentally transform" the US system to be more like Europe's. Given the economic state of Europe why would we want to do that? We've already been trying it in the state of California, with an economy the size of Italy, for some 20 years and the place is circling the drain. That dog don't hunt.
If you want to be honest, you will admit that the Soviet Union ran out of time. America has been building up its own weaponry since the end of World War II and Reagan did nothing spectacular in this regard (although he talked Star Wars). You stated "I do agree that the main reason that the Soviet Union collapsed was their own system". This is your tacit acknowledgement that the Soviet Union would have collapsed regardless of what Reagan did or did not do.
Regarding simple and feel-good statements like Obama looking to 'fundamentally transform the US system to be more like Europe's' – these statements don't focus on facts. Did you know for example, that under Obama, US foreign exports have nearly doubled in 4 years; and that US Crude Oil production has increased every year in the last 4 years, even though it declined every year during Bush's 8 years? How is that like Europe? Name-calling does not change these facts!
Historical facts. Republicans had controle of congress the last six years of Clinton and the first six years of Bush. The deficet dropped until Clinton left office and immediately started climbing when Bush took over. It's just fact, Republican presidents explode sending and debt.
Romney, by state law had to balence the states debt. In his privat jods, his goal was to produce wealth, make profit, not balence budgets. In fact many of the company's he took over, he purposely ran up large debt so he could pay himself and leave the company in shambles. He will do the same thing to America; it is far more profitable for him and his friends to run up government debt then to cut spending. Cutting the military hurts his investors.
Reagan was right; and so was Kennedy. Please brush up on your History. I know that Republicans are God's chosen people, but even Moses messed up in the wilderness, agreed? And who can forget David and his concubines and Jersey-Shorish love life, right?
Oh, and Clinton closed the deficit because he raised taxes on the 2% as well. Don't forget to include that the next time you're explaining how Clinton had a budget surplus.
This is hilarious. Some idiots on this thread are actually CANCELLING their Economist membership just because they read something they don't like. LOL. These guys are sour grapes. Can't handle an opinion from a magazine? Cancel membership! Just shows how intolerant these people are of other's opinions. Relax, its all just a game, dont take it so serious. Politics is a joke anyway. An opinion is like an a##hole, - everybody's got one!
It's very unlikely that any of the people saying "I'm cancelling" is actually a subscriber. The Economist is far too focused on actual facts and discussions about facts for the right wing crowd in the United States. The facts and reality have a worrying and lasting liberal bias.
Somewhere, I'm thinking in the middle of the USA, there are a bunch of people with their computers thinking that The Economist has replaced their accounts department with a message board. Makes sense I guess. If a few hundred people on a message board say they are cancelling their subscriptions, and maybe even their online accounts created ten minutes ago, why would you bother to check whether that had correlated to an actual drop in the number of subscriptions?
But some of them are long time subscribers! Who didn't cancel their subsciptions last time Obama (or Kerry) got the endorsement or when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were heavily criticised, but lo and behold, when they read online that Obama got the most grudging and unwhelming endorsement, it's time to cancel.
If you're gonna make up a story, make it a good one.
The Economist is only backing Obama because they are worried about what the Republicans would do to the Federal Reserve. With the Rothschilds being the ultimate owners of the Economist, and with a huge stake in preserving the status quo at the Fed, I never expected the Economist to back anyone else than Obama.
Of course, The Economist and The Illuminati secretly run the world, together with the Jews, don't forget. Plus 9/11 was fabricated by the US government. And we all know that Osama is hiding in a bunker in Berlin.
Vested interests within media and banking do not necessarily imply conspiracy theories.
There are two types of listening techniques, Adult and Child listening. It's got nothing to do with how mature you are as a person, only how you perceive a message. With child listening you absorb a message as is. With adult listening you consume the message but also take into account who the sender is and what motive that person has with the message.
It's not only the Economist that have a pro-Fed bias, why do you think media in the US was so biased against Ron Paul? Why do you think advertisers withdrew funding from Glenn Beck when he ran a show exposing the Fed, thus forcing Fox News to sack him? Wake up brother.
I know why The Economist doesn't support Ron Paul. Because Ron Paul is a kook who doesn't understand the difference between precious metals, currency, money, or wealth and who would be disastrously bad for the economy.
Because the media saw right through Ron Paul. I've got respect for Ron Paul, there aren't a lot of politicians that have the kind of integrity but he was never a serious contender and his fiscal theories were so far out there you couldn't get a reasonable democrat or republican to take his side.
As a Lizard overlord, I think you're getting a little close to the truth.
As of this comment, he/she has 24 Recommends (one from me), and you have 3.
All is right in the world.
I think it's pretty cool that you're able to get Fox News in your cave.
OK. Who is the ULTIMATE OWNER of you thoughts??? Probably folks you would prefer NOT to disclose.
If you think recommends mean ANYTHING regarding the soundness of your position or analytical powers, you are a greater fool than I first thought!
How about Ron Paul being a Lindbergh style isolationist who loves nasty foreign regimes!
People that read The Economist are by-and-large those seeking the truth. They educate themselves and are always striving to know more about the world.
So yes, "Recommends" on The Economist are a pretty good measure of how cogent an argument is.
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Flatter yourself! It won't last long!
PT Barnum would've been proud of today's Republicans. Total, unabashed shysters is what they are.
We are now experiencing the beginning of what will be a long and possibly dangerous stretch; a stretch in which the white establishment and its billionaire masters struggle to maintain power over a populace that grows more and more unlike them with every passing year.
Perhaps Citizens United was their opening move. Now they can simply dump their money into elections anonymously - confusing good Americans who with a television bombardment of specious claims. People don't have a lot of time to follow how Washington is really governed, and need to be told the truth. Instead they get Fox.
I'm not saying Obama doesn't stretch the truth once in awhile, but that pales in comparison to the torrent of despicable Republican lies. Shameful fucking behavior; they've done nothing to help America over these past four very difficult years.
Nothing but a pack of lies, told by Mitt Romney, the perfect vehicle when it comes to duplicity and deceitfulness. There was a time when I always had at least a few Republicans that I thought were cool, like Chuck Hagel, John McCain (once upon a time) and Lincoln Chafee.
Now? I fear they have no intention of ever giving up power, and that they are going to slowly but surely gut the middle class even more as they purchase and subvert our great, imperiled democracy.
Bad idea voting for Mitt.
Crushed it.
I say that the "devil we know" has failed much too miserably. At least Obama now has a resume (how you initially endorsed someone who would not qualify to run your warehouse, I'll never understand), but that resume is sorely short of achievement. You think he saved us from a depression – I think he's about to drag us into one. Whatever his contradicting promises (which are not a new phenomenon), Romney has a record of achievement in both business and government – I'll be voting for him.
By the way, want serious contradiction? Look at the ongoing Benghazi fiasco.
Larry in Florida
Larry makes a great point. I am also a Florida voter, and will also be voting for President Romney. Journalists of every stripe have run off and joined the Obama cult, and expect that we normal citizens will do the same, based on their incessant blathering. Guess again.
You might want to actually look at Romney's business record before you quote it as a reason to vote for him, and by Obama cult do you mean the cult of sane american's that think civil liberties and government social programs are a good thing? Nah your right, just add more money to the over bloated military budget and cut taxes for the wealthy...
Allow me to express what most people on this forum are thinking: you are not a normal citizen. In fact you're quite special.
It's not just the Media.
90% of scientists agree with Obama that global warming is happening.
The Economist did a poll of top economists, and the majority sided with Obama's plans.
So the majority of scientist & economists endorse Obama.
In the face of this, why do you continue to believe what you do?
thank you for reaffirming my decision to cancel my 20 year print subscription 4 years ago. I don't even buy your magazine in the airport anymore... very sad how far you have fallen... you endorsed a largely unknown candidate with no record of accomplishment and 4 years later, Obama now has a failed record. Yet you still can't bring yourself around to endorse a viable alternative because he is not to your Progressive ideal. May you go the way of Newsweek and Time (ie, complete irrelevance)
Obama only has a failed record if you get your news from Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Obama is far from perfect, but he's done an astonishing amount of good (and some bad, as noted) in the face of a Republican party willing to let America burn before helping Obama succeed.
Better than someone who will say whatever the audience in front of him wants him to say and his bat**** crazy VP candidate who is both willing to impose his religious beliefs on everyone else's reproductive organs and is also a follower of the fervently anti-religious Ayn Rand.
It seems that you keep reading it even after cancelling your subscription four years ago. What is amazing is that The Economist did not go out of business after that!
The Economist 1 You 0.
You should also probably cancel your subscription to People magazine, TV Guide, and Playboy (though you probably still have to keep that one hidden under your bed).
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So four people dying, including the first ambassador to be lost in over three decades because the administration denied repeated requests for security is a success? Or the guns they shipped to Mexican cartels that killed a US border agent? Or did Limbaugh make that up too? I'd say it was the President who literally preferred to let people burn.
So four people dying, including the first ambassador to be lost in over three decades because the administration denied repeated requests for security is a success? Or the guns they shipped to Mexican cartels that killed a US border agent? Or did Limbaugh make that up too? I'd say it was the President who literally preferred to let people burn.
So four people being killed, including the first ambassador to be lost in over three decades because the administration denied repeated requests for security is a success? Or the guns they shipped to Mexican cartels that killed a US border agent? Or did Limbaugh make that up too? I'd say it was the President who literally preferred to let people burn.
Nobody said that Obama is faultless; certainly not me. I say that Obama is marginally competent. To be honest, I'm a heck of a lot more upset about the NDAA amendment allowing the indefinite detention of US citizens without due process than I am about under-provisioned security at the US consulate in Benghazi (and the subsequent confusion about the causes of the attack).
But mistakes does not translate to a "failed record". I feel that the number of successes he's had in the face of a Republican congress that would rather burn down the US than agree with Obama actually does justify keeping him on.
Oh, and then there's the absolutely nonsensical policy and deficit control ideas coming from the other guy. Which is the other reason to vote for Obama: the other guy and his VP have put forward policies that would actually begin the process of destroying this country. We're too close to the have-nots actually having nothing to lose. That's what has happened to Greece, and Romney seems hell bent on actually getting us there.
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Please send more of your angry friends over.
A disappointing endorsement, but it's not a surprise. I have been a subscriber to the Economist since the late 1990s and I no doubt find the magazine shifting to the left over the years. Its editorial stance is no longer libertarian as it claims, but rather socially liberal - in line with its sister publication, Financial Times, to which I have been a subscriber for about ten years.
Over the past four years, the Economist has always been able to find excuses and cut slacks for every wrong thing that Mr. Obama did - from running $1 trillion dollars in deficit, failing to pass comprehensive immigration reform, to bashing business and capitalism - everything that's against the libertarian doctrine.
The Economist has degraded to the likes of mainstream media in the US - the likes of NY Times - that are in love with the president. The paragraph in this article mentioning Mitt Romney's $7 trillion taxcut plus spending and his flip-flopping are taken directly out of Obama campaign's playbook.
Iowa's Des Moines Register, which had not endorsed a Republican presidential candidate for 40 years, rightly pointed out that "Mitt Romney offers a fresh economic vision." It's incredible that a supposedly reputable economic magazine fails to see that.
It's a sad day for the Economist.
You do recall that the Economist went for Bush in both 2000 and 2004, right?
The Economist is still the fiscally conservative socially libertarian magazine it has been for a long time. It's the Republican party that has shifted hugely to the far right... and apparently taken you with them.
You are right about 2000 but the Economist endorsed John Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008. It was more fiscally conservative in the 1990s (it also endorsed Bob Dole in 1996). In the past decade, the magazine has become more concerned about social issues than fiscal ones. I am a libertarian but I happen to be more concerned about fiscal conservatism than social liberalism. Therefore I have been voting for Republicans in the past few elections, although I'm mostly aligned with Democrats on social issues.
My mistake about 2004. Not sure why I misremembered that. I am concerned with both fiscal conservatism and social libertarianism. Since Mitt is actively hostile to social liberties, and I feel that Obama is somewhere closer to Nixon and Reagan on fiscal conservatism than Romney/Ryan, whose proposals are capable of building on the breath-taking deficits of Bush & Obama and making them truly jaw-dropping.
The United States will need significantly higher taxes to pay down the deficit since we have a deficit problem, which is not simply a spending problem. Romney/Ryan and the rest of the Republicans unwilling to even discuss higher taxes are completely and utterly wrong for the crisis facing America. Obama isn't close to ideal, but he's clearly better than Romney.
IMHO anyway.
Fresh? Same promises and plan as Reagan, Bush and Bush. All three exploded the debt with new spending. Romney's running mate has his signature on every big spending bill that was put in front of him under Bush and and we are having to pay for them still, running up the deficdt today. You all have romnesia!
The Economist will support any Republican who fits the neoconservative, pro-immigration and Federal Reserve-friendly description.
Just because Economist sounds as if it had taken some parts from Obama campaign's playbook does not mean it is wrong. You spoke as if because Des Moines Register did not endorse a Repulican for 40 years, they must be right in endorsing Romney. As far as I know, DMR offered no convincing explanation of Romney. The main reason for the endorsement was Romney put economy as a priority in his campaign - but that is really because Romney's platform as a businessman and probably also because his positions on other issues are so far right he would not bring them up for fear of losing votes in the centre. His third debate on foreign policy was the weakest and it tells a lot why he tacked to the economy like a glue. Even on that, the DMR got it wrong. They maintained he is the candidate that will be able to strike compromises with the Congress Republicans, but surely ability to strike any deal cannot be the reason to elect a president. what if those deals with far right Republicans bring America futher down the road of economic abyss? Some
Just because Economist sounds as if it had taken some parts from Obama campaign's playbook does not mean it is wrong. You spoke as if because Des Moines Register did not endorse a Repulican for 40 years, they must be right in endorsing Romney. As far as I know, DMR offered no convincing explanation of Romney. The main reason for the endorsement was Romney put economy as a priority in his campaign - but that is really because Romney's platform as a businessman and probably also because his positions on other issues are so far right he would not bring them up for fear of losing votes in the centre. His third debate on foreign policy was the weakest and it tells a lot why he tacked to the economy like a glue. Even on that, the DMR got it wrong. They maintained he is the candidate that will be able to strike compromises with the Congress Republicans, but surely ability to strike any deal cannot be the reason to elect a president. what if those deals with far right Republicans bring America futher down the road of economic abyss? Some
If you've been paying attention you would have noticed that the "socially libertarian" part is increasingly trumping the "fiscally conservative" part with respect to the Economist's take on America.
The complaining about "voter suppression" has reached the point that I almost wouldn't be surprised if the Economist starting arguing that every minority is entitled to a free on-demand ride to the polls.
In this editorial, "savage cuts to programmes that help America's poor" is a caricature that I would expect to find on DailyKos. A nuanced analysis would note that neither major party in the U.S. is really interested in the poor because the true poor don't vote. Hence the U.S. has regressive tax policies like the mortgage interest deduction which does little for the poor and a lot for the upper middle class. At least Romney (unlike Obama) has not ruled out eliminating this deduction which economists agree should be eliminated for both equality and efficiency reasons.
Everything you said is true. The Economist will probably be out of business in a few years, but then, who really cares?
Wow, there is some nonsense on this board. Yeah, ya'll go cancel your imaginary subscriptions...I'm sure The Economist will be devastated.
Those of us who have actual subscriptions saw this coming a long time ago. Obama is way closer than the GOP to The Economist on every social issue. When it comes to trimming govt spending Obama is at least pragmatic. The entire GOP slate of candidates said outright that they would reject 10:1 cuts-to-taxes to tackle the deficit. That's ridiculous, and it's hard to for a reasonable person to support a party that takes that stance.
Agreed. The ironic thing is that if Romney had run on a Democratic ticket, he could have run as what he really is - a centrist pragmatist, and he probably would have won. Instead he went with the GOP ticket, and when faced with the likes of Santorum and Gingrichm he tacked hard HARD right. An optimist will say "Thats ok, its all smoke and mirrors and once in the White House, he'll tack back to the center". I don't think so. Actions have consequences. He is beholden to the Tea Party that is also holding the GOP hostage. He cannot tack back to the center without facing an insurrection. I'll say it again. The Tea Party agenda is based on an obsessive fixation with the Laffer curve, and will be the ruin of America.
Barring his stance on Abortion and his mate wanting Fetus personhood.... and his website saying that he wants Supreme court Judges that will overturn Roe v Wade....
The Women of the USA can NOT afford a Romney/ Ryan Administration....
Mitt believes that life begins at conception and wishes that the laws of our nation reflected that view. But while the nation remains so divided, he believes that the right next step is for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade – a case of blatant judicial activism that took a decision that should be left to the people and placed it in the hands of unelected judges. With Roe overturned, states will be empowered through the democratic process to determine their own abortion laws and not have them dictated by judicial mandate.
NOT to mention his signing Grover Norquists Pledge to NEVER raise taxes...
That is a VERY dangerous game to play with the American economy....
Obama "surrendered too much control to left-wing Democrats in Congress" and "the White House ... has too often seemed ... left-leaning?" You are absolutely WRONG.
If you ask me, the Obama administration has not been left-leaning enough, by any stretch of the imagination.
Obama should have pushed to break-up mega-banks; prosecute perpetrators of mortgage fraud; re-institute Glass-Steagall; create Medicare for all; mandate Medicare Part D to negotiate pharmaceutical costs for prescription drugs (currently forbidden by law, that could save 800 billion dollars over 10 years); and eliminate the income cap on Social Security taxes. For starters.
None of that would be bad for business. QUITE THE CONTRARY.
Despite my frustration with the Obama administration's conservatism, I give Obama enormous credit for the passage of the Affordable Care Act and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Actually I don't consider these left leaning measures:
1) re-institute Glass-Steagall
2) mandate Medicare Part D to negotiate pharmaceutical costs for prescription drugs (what is good for walmart is good for the Gov - negotiation leverage from scale)
And am actually shocked the Republicans didn't put those measures out there as part of their own agenda, say an alternative at least to Dodd-Frank, and to demonstrate something tangible with healthcare for the elderly (key constituency)
Contemporary Republicans want to return to a Gilded Age in which wealth is concentrated in a tiny, yet powerful plutocracy that lords over masses of powerless workers, and with a modern twist dumps their 401K money into risky derivatives and uses their savings accounts as collateral for high-stakes real estate projects. In such a context, reinstating Glass–Steagall's provisions that separated commercial and investment banking would be blasted by Republicans as "Marxist."
When the Bush administration was promoting legislation to create Medicare Part D, it fought to prevent the program from using scale as leverage in negotiating pharmaceutical prices. I admit that it was odd for a Republican to push this benefit. But the end result smacked of GOP cronyism in big way.
And that they don't is exactly why the right in America has lost its way. America desperately needs a intelligent, pragmatic and dynamic republican party, not this crazy, ideologically 'pure' caricature thats evident now. Perhaps this upcoming loss will be the jolt needed to reconnect the American right with reality, lead to some new ideas. Maybe with a new generation, this continual fighting of the political, ideological and cultural battles of the 1960s can finally cease. I skeptical, but we'll see.
As a so-called "liberal" who regularly reads the Economist and values the journalism it produces (a rarity in our American news-tainment media culture) I find this piece a refreshing take on the election. Obama is not a man or a leader without flaws, but Romney is a conssumate opportunist, willing to say anything and to pander to anyone in order to be elected. Thank you for this article, I have shared it and hope some of my conservative friends will read it.
I agree with FuriousPhil. Obama is a man with flaws. Lots of them. A ridiculous amount of them. In fact, Obama has so many flaws, it is difficult to see what else he brings to the table. Just flaws. If not for Democrat party stooges like FuriousPhil, this flawed, failing, milquetoast would not have been voted in as dog catcher, much less President of the United States. Please, let's admit the experiment was a failure, and send this flawed failure back to Chicago.
I do not think the economist should have even written this article. There only one way in which it is acceptable to impart information I.E. the news; and that is by presenting the facts and within limits interpreting what those facts mean. By openly taking a side, regardless of how many times it is qualified with statements like "even though Obama did..." the economist has tainted its reputation and every other article that it has published. This makes it impossible to simply read the content of an article without saying, in the back of your mind "how does this fit into the liberal perspective of the world."
I firmly believe the only acceptable way to teach a subject like politics, and I do believe the economist and other publications like it are engaged in "teaching", is to unceasingly attempt to suppress one's own political opinions and teach only the facts and their implications. You should keep your audience guessing about your views and as a result forced to develop their own. I have heard it argued that it is impossible to entirely suppress your own biases, so it's best to simply embrace and publicize them. Unfortunately, if you do this you risk surrendering to your biases and eagerly step into the abyss that fox news gleefully dominates.
The other problem I have with this article is that the election is less than a week away and in all likelihood Obama is going to win (even fox news has him ahead in the stats). This article sounds too much like a last minute attempt to get in on the "I told you so" side of the campaign. I'm sure both democratic and republicans can agree that, a candidate winning an election is not the same thing as being the most qualified for the job.
Apparently, you missed out on an important and necessary facet of journalism: the opinion and editorial pages. This article is described as an endorsement, which is a common part of editorial tradition.
Since they don't agree with your opinion, you'd rather that they simply didn't express opinions. Nice.
I fully agree with Bagman, journalism should report facts, but also opinion.
What is key is to be clear which is bein reported.
In The Times there is a subtle formatting where reporting is in justified text and opinion/editorials ... are shown in left justified (in case it is not obvious from the title).
However, what are facts when it is politics - my 'fact(oid)' is your accusation of dumb stupidity or ideology.
virtually nothing in politics counts as facts except saying that someone went somewhere, said something, contradicted themselves or signed something, and even that lot can be taken out of context to achieve a partisan end
I think Journalism should be an unrelenting attempt to express truth; telling undecided voters who they should vote for seems a bit like me telling you what you should wear to work tomorrow when I have no idea who you are, where you live, or what you do (just in case always add a bowtie). Actually I do agree with their opinion (and I'm guessing yours), I think Obama is more qualified; I do not agree with their decision to express their opinion. As you can see by suppressing the expression of my own opinion, I have allowed others to guess (incorrectly) at my ideology and express their own. (Your welcome)
Also, opinion maybe a facet of journalism but it is not a facet of great journalism. Woodward and Bernstein broke open Watergate and changed the United States, not a result of expressing their opinions, but rather because of their insight and access to information (facts) that no one else had.
My hope would be that the economist would attempt to discover and write the story that has not yet been written; in this article they are simply regurgitating the same information that can be found on any morning news show. For example the article talks about Romney's flip flopping on issues. However informed persons, who study politics, as I would hope political reporters would be, know that this type of behavior is an absolute necessity for someone who is challenging an incumbent president. First the candidate must attempt to court the fundamentalists of his party, in this case the ultra conservatives. After winning the primary, the candidate must race toward the ideological middle as quickly as he can without sounding like a blatant hypocrite; in order to attempt to pull "middle-of-the-roaders" and right leaning liberals away from the liberal vote. The only persons who do not flip-flop are either not running a serious campaign (Herman Cain), are mentally incompetent (Herman Cain), never made it out of the primaries (Herman Cain) or are more interested in making a statement than holding office (Ron Paul [who I have a lot of respect for]). As a result a certain amount of flip-flopping is SOP and therefore not newsworthy and not worth using to justify an Obama favoring opinion. This article scraps the surface and tosses out and endorsement in a very Donald Trump like manner.
(On a slightly different note, none of my comments are intended as insults, I recognize that I am being a bit of a smart-dumbA$$... You have forced me to view the subject from a different perspective so thank you.)
Good response to my snarky comment. Though I disagree, and feel that the press is an appropriate medium for both fact and opinion (as long as it is always clear which is which), I respect that you disagree and have done so quite thoughtfully.
And yes, we agree on who should continue to be president.
Mitt is a consultant. I've been one, hired many, but would not vote for one. Consultants are better suited to provide advice, carefully assess situations, and see both sides of an issue. We should not be surprised by his ability to view two different point of views and argue strongly for neither. I fundamentally agree with the Economist, the last thing we need is a consultant as president. Even an economist would do a better job.
I am not surprised that so much of the readership is up in arms with this magazine's lukewarm endorsement of Obama. The Economist is a business friendly magazine, and those in business would like nothing better than to have an ex-management consultant type at the helm.
Yet I cannot help but note that other independent business luminaries like Bloomberg have endorsed Obama for the same reasons - because the centrist pragmatic business friendly Romney has all but disappeared and left a Tea Party surrogate clone in his place. If you believe, as I do, that the Tea Party agenda (i.e. slashing spending without raising taxes and even slashing taxes for the rich) demonstrates an uncritical, almost religious belief in the Laffer curve, and it is therefore suicide, then you will realise as I do that a vote for Romney is too big a risk. Maybe he doesnt really believe what he says, and once in the Oval Office he will dump that agenda. But maybe he wont because he has painted himself into a corner. It is too big a risk.
So I'm holding my nose and voting for Obama. Better the devil you know.
Oh, man, I am worried. If y'all react like this to the barely meaningful Economist's endorsement I don't want to even imagine the riots and violence that you will provoke on the night of November 6 when Obama wins. Of course you already have your scripts ready to denounce fraud or whatever, so as to make others as angry as you are. You should all chill. It's called democracy. You don't always win.
No need to worry. Obama will lose in a landslide.
The Republican ideological think tank is the Catholic Church, which does not have female priests. Because the Republican Party is bereft of ideas, the Republican candidates are also lacking like Todd Akin.
What Stalin told FDR, "The frozen bird chirped, after being put into cow dun by the farmer, and the coyote heard the chirping. Meaning, the person who puts you in it isn't necessarily your enemy; the person who takes you out of it isn't necessarily your freind; and when you are in it, keep your mouth shut."
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-Global High Scores
-3 difficulty levels (Easy, Medium, Hard)
This game was tested on phones and tablets.
Keywords: fall down, drop, ball, accelerometer, scoreloop
Danger Run
Tilt your phone to control the player. Avoid enemies and obstacles. Collect coins to buy upgrades. Collect gems to get extra lives.
Complete objectives and increase your score multiplier.
Many power-ups:
- Coin magnet
- Coin torrent
- Speed boost
- Shield
- Coin value
- Pickup spawn
Tested on phones and tablets.
If you like Temple Run, Danger Dash and other runner games, you will like this game also.
Tilt Bounce
Collect stars to score points.
- 6 different modes
- 2 difficulty levels (EASY and HARD)
- Local High Scores
- Global High Scores
Keywords: tilt bounce bouncing ball soccer game addictive addicting accelerometer scoreloop highscore score
Falldown Multiball Full
- Realistic physics
- Multiball bonus
- 11 themes
- Different balls and bounce effects
- Local High Scores
- Global High Scores
This FULL version is AD FREE and includes 11 themes:
- Wood
- Football
- Space
- Micro Balls
- Mini Balls
- Single Ball
- Bouncy
- Death
- Water
- Square
- Mix
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Stone Murugan Statue Riding on Peacock 27" Item # 53g21
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I bought a unique, one-of-a-kind statue from Lotus Sculpture which depict Krishna sitting sideways on a cow and playing his flute, while the cow has twisted her neck around so she can gaze up at him with loving eyes. It depicts a very touching moment. The cow's posture shows such love and devotion. I've never seen anything like it. The artistic balance between Krishna and the cow is wonderful, and Krishna is very well done, with a slight smile on his face as he plays his flute. It's the most remarkable statue of Krishna I've ever seen. In addition, the shipment was extremely prompt and a proper statement of value accompanied the statue. This has been a very good experience with Lotus Sculpture. --Maris WhitakerReviewer:Maris Whitaker (Boulder, Colorado, US)
Purchased a 19" painted Ganesha. It arrived last week and it is better than expected. It was very well packed. The colors are vibrant and the hues are perfect. I was afraid they might be garish in hand, but those fears were completely unfounded. Beautiful color palette. The carving is well detailed. It is a very handsome piece. I couldn't be happier with it In fact, I was so happy that I just finished purchasing a 36" painted Garuda. Once I saw the quality of the Ganesh I felt confident in purchasing a more expensive piece. And eagerly awaiting its arrival. Had I the money and the room, I would be in trouble.Reviewer:mark drazak (Cromwell, Connecticut, US)
A wonderful, efficient streamlined purchasing system at Lotus Sculpture. The sculpture purchased is in perfect condition and is quite beautiful.Reviewer:Madhurika (, Herts, GB)
This is the first time I bought a statue from Lotus Sculpture. It arrived the next day. Well packaged. It is a beautiful Ganesh hand made wooden statue. Suggestion: it would be nice if you could list on your website if the statues you get from India involve fair trade and fair labor. I am already looking on the website for my next purchase. Thank you for the great experience and importantly for making these beautiful pieces of art available for purchase in the US.Reviewer:Varun Khanna (Los Angeles, CA, US)
I've known about Lotus Sculpture from Hinduism Today magazine and from the testimonies of friends. His site is first rate and exhaustively documented with beautiful photographs, dimensions and descriptions. I appreciate the breadth of sculptures available be they of museum quality, bronzes or brasses, or as in my case, resin volcanic stone suitable for extreme weather and a more modest budget. It was a relief to know that I was going to be pleased when I opened the box to see professional grade rigid foam packing surrounding a thing of beauty.Reviewer:Nandi (oysterville, wa, US)
Excellent arrival time, packaging, quality of statue.Reviewer:Jennifer Metzger (Hatfield, MA, US)
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the mouse is great says my daughter in little rock Arkansas for whom it was a birthday present. 4 stars instead of 5 because it did not arrive on the 24 feb as expected but on the 26. probably due to the bad weather in Arkansas, but still it was a bit of a disappointment. but I certainly will trade with you again! thanks janeReviewer:jane wolfe (woodstock, Vermont, US)
- Materials: Indian Black Granite
- Total Height Including Base: 27 inches
- Base Width & Depth: 12 x 8 inches
- Weight: 190 pounds
The artist who carved Murugan took care to hand polish all the exposed skin of the God. Hand polishing of the skin turns the naturally grayish stone to a much darker color. This contrasts nicely with the light gray stone of the jewelry and clothing Murugan is wearing.
About Black Granite: Indian black granite is a wonderful stone. It is capable of a variety of finishes which can give it a variety of different color possibilities. It is possible to see 4-5 different colors on a single piece depending on the degree of polish or roughness of the stone. Indian black granite is among the best granite in the world sought after by artists globally. Unlike inferior quality granite, Indian granite is extremely dense and without impurities that plague other stones. The density of granite makes a granite sculpture perfect for any garden because it can be left outside in extreme heat and extreme cold for years without care.
About Murugan
Murugan is regarded as the son of Shiva and Parvati and hence the brother of Ganesha. There is a shrine to Murugan in all Saivite temples in Tamil Nadu, and likewise there are shrines to Shiva and Parvati in all temples dedicated to Skanda.
Valli, the daughter of a tribal ruler and Devani the daughter of Indra the King of Devas are the consorts of Skanda. Murugan is also revered as the nephew of Vishnu and is referred to as Maal Marugan.
Murugan's vahana or vehicle is the peacock who struts around admiring his own beauty. Murugan places himself on top of the peacock suppressing it, reminding us not to let pride and egotism get the better of us. In battle Murugan's weapon is a bow and arrow. He is often shown carrying a flag and vel or spear. The vel is a symbol of Lord Murugan. He uses the vel to guard the spiritual progress of the world.
The Story of the Birth of the Celestial Warlord: Parvati gave Shiva's aura to the gods. "From this will rise the warlord you seek," said the goddess.
The gods gave Shiva's aura to Svaha, consort of Agni, the fire god. Unable to bear the heat of the aura and the god Agni for long, Svaha gave the aura to Ganga the river goddess who cooled it in her icy waters until Shiva's aura turned into a seed.
Aranyani, the goddess of the forest, embedded the divine seed in the fertile forest floor where it was transformed into a robust child with six heads and twelve arms.
Six forest nymphs called the Krittikas found this magnificent child in a lotus. Over come by maternal affection they began nursing him. The six headed son of Shiva, born of many mothers, came to be known as Kartikeya.
Parvati taught Kartikeya the art of war and turned him into the celestial warlord called Skanda.
Skanda took command of the celestial armies, defeated Taraka in battle and restored the heavens to the gods.
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This sculpture is in our Oceanside, California store and ready for immediate packing. Shipping is calculated from Oceanside, California after the purchase. This piece is too heavy to ship via UPS ground and will be shipped using R&L Freight Carriers. Approximately 3 working days are needed to pack the sculpture in its own custom wood crate. If you place your order online shipping will show in the order as $0. Shipping will be calculated based on the weight of the sculpture and the distance from Oceanside, CA to determine the shipping price. Shipping will then be added to the total after the order is placed. Please call 760-994-4455 or email us [email protected] for a shipping quote.
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This sculpture is in our Oceanside, California store and ready for immediate packing. Shipping is calculated from Oceanside, California after the purchase. This piece is too heavy to ship via UPS ground and will be shipped using an international freight service. Typically we use TNT Special Services as they give the most competitive rates. Approximately 3 working days are needed to pack the sculpture in its own custom wood crate. If you place your order online shipping will show in the order as $0. Shipping will be calculated based on the weight of the sculpture and the distance from Oceanside, CA to determine the shipping price. The shipping quote will be emailed to you and no charge will be made without your approval. Shipping will then be added to the total after the order is placed. Please call 760-994-4455 or email us [email protected] for a shipping quote.
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