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Author: |Allen Currie |
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Date Posted: 09:52:16 11/15/12 Thu Jessica Thanks for posting what is a very interesting question. Personally I have been preparing for my scenario by being a very long distance from the fan. Way back in isolation with no electricity, cell or land line phone possible, etc. etc. I seldom am out more than once a week. So I am not really current with details, particularly the abilities of whoever will head the politibureau or whatever it is called in China. Whoever gets the job has a great deal of problem with external circumstances, not only in China, but more importantly around the world. The stats I have seen indicate Chinas growth is slowing dramatically. I don't need stats to know that Europe is among the walking dead. AND it is spreading. The social unrest says it all. The situation is comparatively severe. I say comparatively because people are always loath to give up benefits that they have come to think of as `rights`. Europe-Greece will get worse. Neither China nor Obama has the power to prevent the tide coming in, no matter how many orders they give. North America is on this path too. (No matter how much the stats are fudged.) (Mind you, I don`t put ANY faith in government stats from anywhere.) The spiral is downward, a world death spiral. Canada`s finance minister has just come out with a line that is brilliant on one side, but in the long run will just add to the problem. `We are going to concentrate on those things we can control and ignore those things we can`t` Obama is still trying to save and-or control the world. Honorable attitude but not possible. In the long run that attitude is protectionist and as it grows around the world, there will be more and more interest in personal, immediate self protection, and less and less interest in protecting the worlds long term best interests. Win this immediate battle at all costs, even if it kills us all. China`s new leadership is under the same gun as all the other world leaders. It is unfortunate that all world leaders are very theoetical, with each their own hoary theories. They belong to a different community than the ordinary, on the ground people. They have different goals and values. (which is not to say the ordinary people theorists have better solutions, just different, even if dealing more directly with real on the ground problems.) Someone wrote that there are problems and predicaments. Problems have good and bad SOLUTIONS. Predicaments have only the lesser of two evil OPTIONS. America, and most of the world is sure that a solution to the financial PROBLEMS is sure to be found. We are far too far past being just a little bit pregnant for a solution. China will deal with this badly. Allen [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |