Putin Says U.S. Is A "Parasite" On Global Economy

Source: REUTERS

LAKE SELIGER, Russia | Mon Aug 1, 2011 4:27pm EDT

(Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.

"They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy," Putin told a Kremlin youth group while touring its summer camp north of Moscow.

"They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar."

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

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you have today ? Yes, the CHINESE ushered in the modern era from your cave dwelling origins.

Did you remember to thank the Nazi's for your space travel and rockets ?

market economy back in the 90s under Clinton.

between the East and West to allow trade between the two systems and allow them to co-exist.

The Americans said no "fcing way" we can win this, and the official US policy was not dominance on the missile count
but economic war fare - and of course they utterly bankrupted and destroyed the Russians.

The Americans have been employing economic warfare ever since and have destroyed countless countries in the process.


Do you think it comes as any surprise that countries are now waging economic warfare against the united States (CHINA, RUSSIA,
pretty much all of SOUTH AMERICA), and winning.

Your country is going down the crapper not by some magical economic disaster, but well planned, well implemented economic warfare.

The "big sell-off." Anything not nailed down, or not nailed down strongly enough, was sold to
benefit a few corrupt oligarchs. It was a fire sale for commodities & natural resources.

http://shockdoctrinesummary.blogspot.com/2009/04/1990s-russia.html

A few well-connected folks became even more spectacularly wealthy, while unions, social services,
and living standards all nose dived.

angry swipes at our currency.

Yes,
I am afraid he is right.

Putin is trying to set up a the same kind of leech system on the backs of the Countries that broke off from mother Russia so it's hard for me to take him seriously.

Also the oligarchs like the ones at the top of GE are all starting to move out of the US with their ill gotten games and leave the rest of the US bankrupt so bit of a mute point.

Other currencies want to become 'reserve currencies' - go ahead and see if anyone wants to buy them.

Then Yen and Euro are both suffering.

People aren't going to buy Yuan and Robles when you don't have a transparent system.

cause hes one too.

russia is some sorta neofascist state now. its sad.
i feel for the russian people.

the governments seemingly tolerant attitude towards the growing nazi sentiment in their country is appauling and disturbing from a people who lost so much in ww2.

........grain of salt, meet mirror......

would be much easier.
Prepare for a pretty bumpy ride.

you all should get along really well.

I understand there are some towns in Siberia that have lost population in the last 20 years. I'm sure they could have as little gub'mint there as they like.

Well kindly return all the aid we've sent you..we have people here who need it ya jerk

8 Billion in US Foreign Aid to Russia

http://www.nolanchart.com/article4509.html

he is nationalising the resources of his country which were stolen by American economic gangsters.
While Obmama is handing the commons and public wealth of the US over to the Corporations - so WHO is the fascist ?


Meanwhile Obama has state sanctioned torture, state sanctioned assassination, ghosting, rendition, secret prisons has declared war on Libya, has a secret war being conducted by flying robots raging in Yemen and Pakistan.


Oh but Putin is bad because he's what ? Former KGB ? Like its ok for Americans to have former CIA as their Presidents but not the Russians.

Amricans are twisted as hell sometimes, I swear to god the hypocrisy is disgusting.

I wonder how many political opponents the 'hero of Russia' has had killed these days? I wonder if the number broke triple digits yet?

some Americans

Are other countries forced to buy the dollar as an investment? Is there anything stopping Russia from buying the yuan or euro? I was under the impression that the US dollar was the best "bet".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_reserves

Don't think anyone is 'forced'.
But, I guess you can make it uncomfortable for someone to change.
Also, there may be a run on the bank, so to speak.
I dunno.

Kettle = Black

Jeez....talk about the pot calling the kettle black....

:wtf:

Our country may be screwed up, but at least we're nowhere near as screwed up as Der Fuhrer's motherland and his puppets.

....yes we are, Vladimir, because we're the biggest, baddest, capitalist ass around. What are you going to do about it?

....remember, it was Russia that gave up Communism and empire in the '80s to join the capitalist game, our game....so now enjoy....

"Good luck and thanks for all the fish".

Our system is fucked. His was never anything BUT fucked!

Who put Putin in charge again? Oh right...

We do have a party that is kinda parasitic, they want to do away with all social programs yet not their own money check from the govt just everyone else's. You can see where this logic gets us, yeah an economy near default.

Still, good to see Vlad shouting out his frustrations with off shore tax shelters.

How did he get the CEO job of Russia?

Got that from a board did ya?

George Bush needs a buddy. Maybe we can get Pooty-Poot to relocate to Bush's suburb in Dallas, where he can do less damage to the world.