Lookit What Our Oil Money Bought For The Saudi's

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It's reel purty an all but can't help but wonder how many mouths it would've fed instead of blowing all that money on a fancy fountain.
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This, too, shall pass...

OZYMANDIAS, by Percy Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
 
I don't quite see what the cause for complaint is here? It's not up to us to say how a country uses it's trade revenues, is it?

Or is it that only Las Vegas is allowed to destroy millenia old aquifers to have huge fountains in the desert?

Morally I agree that it is better to care for your citizenry than build prestige projects but there is no government in the world that does that (tho' we come closer to it than most in Britain we still have crumbling council 'sink' estates in the Midlands and build flash high-rises in London).

It was indeed a beautiful sight to behold, however and thank you for posting it Caver :tup:
 
I don't quite see what the cause for complaint is here? It's not up to us to say how a country uses it's trade revenues, is it?

And, is starvation a big problem there?

Heck, I bought a pizza for us for dinner tonight. If the owner donates that money to his church then it's going somewhere that I don't approve of. But...that's the point of currency. I buy something from him, and he now has money to spend as he wishes, not as I wish.
 
Dunno what happened to my response this morning, I must have forgotten to poosh the button. ;)

Anyway, the bottom line is: they offer us a product and we buy it from them. We have no say in how they spend the money they have. One can always come up with creative ways to spend other people's money, but the fact is it's none of our business. I'd rather see them spend the money on fountains than bankrolling jihadi *******s, so I don't have a problem with this.
 
With the immense number of wasteful pork barrel projects in America - which are funded by our tax dollars - it is ill befitting for Americans to criticize how other governments spend their money.

That said, the world would be a better place if "our friends" the Saudis would use those fountains to drown all their terrorists and supporters in.
 
It's really funny that you should be pointing the finger at them.

Look for the truth and you'll discover that the technology for electric cars has been in existence for a long, long time.
Obviously it was rich Americans who opted for greed instead of the benefit of America and Americans.
Pointing the finger at what others do with their part in that greed is hypocritical considering that we are in a period where WE in the west could also be feeding alot of mouths including right here at home, however we choose to close our eyes to that reality.

What does it matter what they do with that money when we over here are no better?

(I would like to elaborate and not say that all rich Americans or rich people for that matter are greedy, I'm simply stating that the people responsible for much of this mess were, greed and vanity is pretty much the same regardless of what country is it's source.)

If all you are doing with this post is pointing out this single display of greed then yes you are right.
 
What's the issue with how somebody else spends their money? My boss does not care how I spend my wages. The Saudis are free to do what they want with the money they earned.
 
It's reel purty an all but can't help but wonder how many mouths it would've fed instead of blowing all that money on a fancy fountain.
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Dubai is in Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. While their economy was originally built on oil, most of their money now comes from construction, real estate, the financial sector, tourism and recreation, so the Vegas fountain kind of makes sense.......
 
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There is a lot more to the Middle East than just oil...

- Ceicei
 

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