Pigs must be flying PUTIN agrees with Tea Partiers

[tinydancer]

Yup somewhere out there pigs are flying and hell has frozen over when you have Vladamir Putin slagging the U.S. for overspending. And before anyone gets angry about this, Russia holds a lot of U.S. bonds.



Just amazing. A Russian leader giving America economic advice. Who thought we'd ever see this day coming?

Meanwhile back in the U.S. the Communist Party of America has given its official endorsement of Obama and the Democrat Party for 2012. Saaaaawwwwwweeeeet!

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has launched a scathing attack on the United Stated and accused them of being a 'parasite' on the world economy.

Putin said the superpower was living beyond its means 'like a parasite' and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.

The remarks from Russia - one of the world's strongest emerging markets - comes amid speculation that the struggling U.S. will this week have its AAA credit rating downgraded.

'They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy,' Putin said.

'They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar,' he told the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi today.

AND THIS

But Putin, who has often criticised the United States’ foreign exchange policy, noted that Russia holds a large amount of U.S. bonds and treasuries.


'If over there (in America) there is a systemic malfunction, this will affect everyone,' Putin told the young Russians.

'Countries like Russia and China hold a significant part of their reserves in American securities ... There should be other reserve currencies.'

U.S. debt crisis: America is a 'parasite' on the world economy, says Vladimir Putin | Mail Online

 

[waltky]

Putin gonna bring stagnation on Russia...

ANALYSIS: Russia faces period of stagnation with return of Putin
Tue, Sep 27, 2011 - Spare a thought for poor Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It was US diplomats who back in November 2008 cruelly dubbed him Robin, to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Batman.

The phrase stuck. Over the past four years, Medvedev has done nothing to dispel the impression that he is anything other than a useful seatwarmer, his time in the Kremlin a legalistic blip in an epoch of endless Putin rule. It wasn’t always like this. At the start of Medvedev’s presidential term, there were faint hopes he might preside over a partial liberalization of Russian society. The president himself spoke of ending “legal nihilism.” Commentators, meanwhile, scrambled to make sense of Russia’s historically anomalous ruling arrangement — the “tandem,” as it became known. In the shadow world of Kremlin politics, it was hard to work out what was going on behind the scenes. Some looked in vain for signs of an intra-leadership struggle. Others speculated that Medvedev might eventually escape from Putin’s gravitational pull or even fire his mentor.

US President Barack Obama’s administration tried to reach out to Medvedev in the hope this would nudge Russia’s foreign policy away from its hawkish Putin vector toward a more constructive approach. By last year, however, US diplomats had concluded that Project Medvedev was hopeless. Medvedev’s position became one of humiliation. Medvedev’s announcement on Saturday that he was stepping down to allow Putin a third presidency thus came as a surprise to no one. Medvedev’s only significant act as president was to extend the presidential term from four years to six, hardly a democratic step forward. This was seen, rightly, as teeing up the conditions for a triumphant comeback during elections in the spring next year: Putin’s.

The prospects for Russia are gloomy. The country now faces a long period of political and economic stagnation and single-party rule. Disenfranchised Russians are voting with their feet and moving abroad. In theory, Putin could go on until 2024, when he will be 72. Or longer. Last week, however, blogger and anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny predicted that Russia’s kleptocratic system would collapse well before that. “People now realize it doesn’t work. It worked between 2000-2005. There was stability up until 2008,” he said. “But now it’s useless, even for the corrupt people who benefit from it.”

ANALYSIS: Russia faces period of stagnation with return of Putin - Taipei Times

 

[uscitizen]

Why would a Ruskie agreeing with the Tea Party suprise anyone?

 

[Charles_Main]

He is not wrong. Our Building Debt is an issue for the Entire world. We see what is happening each time a small European Nation Defaults. If we did the same it would be devastating to the world Economy. Estimates show, at Obama spending levels. The Rest of the world will have to commit 20% of it's GDP to fund our Debt.

And you wonder why some on the right think some on the left are doing this on purpose. To transfer wealth on a massive scale around the world.

It's pure insanity.

 

[Photonic]

I don't' think Russia has any real right to comment on OUR state of affairs when their own is sorry as shit.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

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