Get ready for China to lose that $2 trillion surplus.

[peilthetraveler]

Quote from Humpy:

A lot of people in the US can't get to grips with the concept that they are in a losing race because :-


3. They can't upgrade their 200 year old political system. By the time anything gets through Congress and the Senate its so watered down as to be near useless. So why are they trying to foist it on others ?

What? They have been doing nothing BUT changing their political system for the last 100 years at least.

You think you have freedom of speech or freedom of religion, or right to bear arms? Oh yeah, you can say SOME things, and you can pray SOME places....and you can own SMALL arms, but thats it.

When the founding fathers gave us the right to bear arms, the US government had nothing but muskets and private citizens had muskets. Thats why for a long time the government could never get out of hand with their spending or changing policies without representing the people. Do you think the government would be spending trillions right now to give to banks if citizens owned Abrams tanks or fighter jets?

 

[traderlux]

Quote from peilthetraveler:

.....if citizens owned Abrams tanks or fighter jets?

.......YEAAH BABY!!!!.....

 

[Atheist]

Quote from nutmeg:

I have also heard that there are shopping malls in China where there are more shop employees around than shoppers in a whole day.
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I heard they built a Wall Mart which subsequently closed a few months later BECAUSE, the people do not shop for a week, they shop every day AND many don't have refrigerators or live in a dwelling that is large enough to store a weeks worth of anything.

Not true, there is a video on youtube about that mall roughly twice the size of the mall of America and only have 10 tenants since opening few year ago.

Also, do a search on the newly build empty city in China. No one is living there and is build with there version of TARP money.

 

[Humpy]

Quote from peilthetraveler:

Do you think the government would be spending trillions right now to give to banks if citizens owned Abrams tanks or fighter jets?

If the citizens were all armed to the teeth - you would have large gangs of criminals just taking what they want. There wouldn't be any money for the Govt. Even tho they waste what there is on Afghanistan, health care etc.

Why not recruit the over 50s, criminals, unemployed, obese, suicidal, terminally ill etc. for foreign wars. Save the country a fortune and might even win the occasional war

Give the savings to bankers , before they can legally get their claws on their usual 90% cut