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Subject: Chris a PS

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Allen Currie

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Date Posted: 14:15:34 06/07/12 Thu

Actually, I see I didn't answer your question. Sorry.

How long to fix the systems? I don't think Europe has still three months to fix what ails them. I don't think it is fixable. Greedy stupid banks and governments have spent many many years ruining the system and I don't see a faster fix, if at all. How long does an ex smoker take to heal completely? How long does a simple few second decision to use a credit card take to pay off?

There comes a point where the smoker is lying in the hospital saying Doc, ya gotta cure my advanced cancer. (It ain't curable, the time for action was a very long time ago.) Doc soft pedals his nearly sure response to you could live for 3 months or a year or even three. No one knows. The patient thinks three years, and the Doc thinks one month. Only the lord knows. Yes, a miracle could happen. The Euro and the world financial system could survive, but I doubt it. When? I don't know but the patient is in a very bad way.

Then we come to "getting back to the good old days." (return to what we know as normal.) Unless we find some way of continuing to spend our future, which will lead to even greater imbalances, we can never get back to what we have/had today. What we have been living is NOT normal. We have been partying with todays' substance PLUS tomorrows substance. Now we have to deal with the hangover, and no party.

We have so many hangovers, (extreme techno reliance, living in a hydrocarbon fuelled world which is now in decline, climate change, overpopulation, depletion of easily recoverable resources, etc. etc.) that large change is going to happen in the world. Maybe you will like the changes. Maybe you won't. But you will certainly have to adapt to change. Change is not the good ol' days.

Allen

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