... but what will happen along the border is not going to be pretty.
There was a time when I actually thought I might retire in Mexico. Now I'm not even sure that Tucson, where my dad is, would be smart 20 years from now. Discretion is the better part of valor, especially for little old ladies.
On a stretch between Shangai and the city of Hangzchou a 300 kmt stretch, I saw house after house dumping open raw sewage into canals all along the train ride
In a number of places in China I saw people coming out of their homes early in the morning and emptying their chamber pots in the canals and ditches. I spent just a few weeks there, and loved it, I might add, but came home with a cough and asthma that took about three years to dissipate.
A warning to rampant, uncontrolled growth of population and industry without regards to the environment.
Of all the stupid, self-destructive things that we humans do, drugs have to be at the top of the list, followed closely by indiscriminate breeding. I despair of ever understanding why people have babies they can't care for. I know that average birth rates go down as affluence grows. I can almost understand having lots of babies if you're a farmer and need lots of hands to work the fields and to care for you in your old age. But in the cities? Beyond my ken.
Regarding your list of things for the government to do, I agree that the government should do as little as possible. Like you, I'd love to see the tax code simplified. I find myself making investment decisions based on the relative ease of record keeping. Not good for the economy. A few of my personal favorites for the to-do list:
- get the cattle off government land;
- quit insuring property in flood zones;
- get rid of seat belt regulations (or change the standards so belts don't cross the wind pipe of short people like me);
- educate our kids;
- quit being nanny to the world; and
- fix all the whiches and thats in the U.S. code. <g>
Karen
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