US risks "severe shock" over debt talks

forexings,

I rather live in a civilzation with it's flaws rather than living a tribal life.

At least we had a reformation, renaissance, enlightenment time, when the science got together, freedom movement, where we kicked out kings and ruled ourself, had an industrial revolution, we even had a war on the question if a man can own another man, we had workers movement and got working laws, we had womens right movement, and got the right for women, we had civil rights movement, we had the sexual revolution, and on and on it goes.

All those evolutions have gone over the head of theMiddle East, that still live tribal life..... the first loyalty is to the Mullah, ....the second loyalty is to the tribes Sheik,.... the third priority is to whether they are Shiite or Sunni... as a fourth priority...maybe, they can be Iraqis, Kuwaitis or , Saudis or whatever....but only if all the three prior loyalties are satisfied first. It's a frikking duck pond of small thinking.

That civilization keeps woman as property, rip each other off, like crazy, live tribal life even though they have SUV's and cellphones, kill each other for nothing, corrupt like a bunch of criminals, everything has to be paid under the table, can't produce anything, no cars no electronics no consumergoods, no nothing....

Kings and Sheiks or selfdeclared generals own everything, and live a life in complete luxury beyond belief, while the rest is poorer than dirt, there are no significant middle class in the Middle East, it is a small population of super rich, and then the rest is poor.

Please don't run the old..."you dont understand" shit....I've been there.

Now....forexings...what was it that you was saying about the "worst nation on earth".

I must say though, there have been developments now in the Middle East that is promising.

In the past any and all changes have been coming from the outside, and by nature anything that comes from the outside is easily percieved as a threat, but now for the first time, the population demand changes, changes that is based on freedom, to choose, freedom of speech, having their own government, transparent government that actually reflect and represent the people, changes that are based on human rights ideal.

This time it is a change that is coming from the inside.

The church in the Middle East have an enormous power, and it's practice is very enforced, but this is a movement that are based on the peoples right, and not necessarily a church movement. People have started to think a bit over there now.

Either way, I wish you luck in the Middle East , and hope you are able to build up something that you can be proud of, and get out of the old lop of blaming everything on other things.

You see forexings, those bearded headwrapped men that sits and yap with their finger in the air....they suck, don't listen to them, your civilization have listen to those guys far too long.

You have the right to all good things in life also, but those guys with the finger in the air...they will not let go of their power easily, so you have to do what you have to do.

Jazznos,

He might be in Norway but there is a big population of Middle easterner refugees, in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, Norway is by the way in NATO.

Infidel...youre damn right, when I was in the Middle East I had it embroidered on my hat "Infidel" ...both in English and Arabic so there would be no mistake about it.

Having been in Norway, and know the people there, ...this doesn't sound like a Norwegian. Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians, are very German like in their attitude, and wouldnt go on like this about Lebanon, Iraq, Afganistan and so on. He's from the Middle East...

The clue is the expression of "Almighty".

Up to medieval times, and a few hundred years beyond, westerners included God in each sentence, but modern language don't.

Norwegians are not that religious, but Middle easterner, still talk like in medieval times, and include God or religion in anything they do.

A Middle Easterner can not go and buy a pair of breakshoes for their car, without including the word God in about 25% of the sentences, when they are ordering the part at the parts desk.

He might be from Norway, but no ...my bet is he's from the Middle East.

Exactly. 100% correct, Almighty will kick your ass slowly but steady.
Just think about those people in Afgan/Iraq/Lebanon/Libya who are giving their life under your weapons. No one asked to poke your nose in their internal matter.
You are the worst nation over the world.

Damn straight.

Youre 100% right. Nice work on the hat ;-) And big time ballsy. You even see that language in their postings on here. "GBP will go 50 pips in'shallah!" Give me a freaking break. If they dont like the West why do they choose to live in it. Thats what i cant understand. Oh yes thats right... Caliphate...! Ok better stop before we get banned for political comments!!!! Stay strong bro.

False, The US did default on it's debt 1933, in the first year of FDRoosevelt' Presidency, suported by congress and later upheld by Supreme court.

As long as there are people worshiping stinky bearded headwrapped men ...always on TV with their finger in the air...I don't mind carrying a big stick.

Go Jolly Roger! Awesome post worthy of any infidel blog!!! Did you notice that clown is from Norway though, not the Middle East? Go figure.

The president stepped into the talks?? And EXACTLY WHAT did he offer himself as his OWN solution? Don't cut any spending except defense spending. Just raise taxes. Other than that, just raise the debt ceiling so we can print more money for more bailouts.
Remember, the IMF will just say whatever the White House wants it to say.

Actually China as well as the US now own the IMF. It's a useless organization that is just trying to pretend that it has relevance. If you read the other blogs stating that China has been converting US dollars into Euros, then it is really China who is doing the talking here.
So the article is dishonest by not disclosing the role of China here.

keep your money throwing on weapons instead of increasing employment rates.

The IMF is being dishonest here. Obama OWNS the IMF. The IMF dosen't want its OWN budget cut. That's what this story is REALLY about.