Jay, YOU begin to sense the cause of MY excitement level.
AND what's more, China getting rich is NOT a problem for the USA. They can both get grossly rich, fat and obese with wealth. They can all have dozens of CDMA2000 phragmented photon cyberphones swishing them and their transducers on anything needing to be hooked up into and out of cyberspace. Not to mention cute little BMW personal transporters, electronically controlled, superconductively levitated and propelled, zipping along at 150 kph or 1000 kph for intercity. They can all eat perfect foods, produced en masse with complete nutrient balances and delicious taste. There is no shortage other than a shortage of brains. Which is the worry.
Even the dopey leaders of the USA, such as Condoleezza Rice, think in terms of "strategic competitors" in regard to China instead of strategic co-operators. If the leaders are too dumb to get it, then J6P with their myths about the Greatest and Most Wonderful Country Which Ever Existed are likely to suffer cognitive dissonance and demand the leaders to not just stand there, but do something. Preferably something really stupid, such as trade protection, currency blockage and other MADness.
I'm perhaps on the foolishly optimistic side of the ledger, so until the USA starts doing really stupid things, I'm going to hang in there. They have done a few such as attacking Microsoft, whacking on huge steel tariffs, banning sheep sales from New Zealand and generally demonstrating idiocy compounded with MADness [mutual assured destruction] and other mental weapons of mass destruction. I'm waiting for something seriously bad, expecting to reach the exits before the mob realizes they are voting for their own poverty and destruction. I'm hopeful that J6P and their leaders will see the light instead of being blinded by MADness; the anodyne light of CDMA2000 phragmented photons of peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love.
The problem is the development of such MADness is incremental, not suddenly mental. It's an exponential curve of MADness, which only reaches dramatic proportions after some time climbing the curve, almost imperceptibily. By the time people realize MADness has gone critical, it's too late to escape the event horizon expanding at the speed of light, gobbling all in its path, which these days, is the whole world other than a few subsistence African svelte survivors who won't even see the microwaved MADness race through the aether even around and through them, beamed from satellites blinking the digital epileptic MADness in the sky.
Of course We the Sheeple are NOT going to go critical and vote for the MADness party. We are going to rejoice in China's new-found wealth and the reflection onto our own burgeoning standard of living.
Baaaaaa,
Mqurice
PS: I saw my old customer, Ivaco Rolling Mills, is bankrupty. Presumably because of steel tariffs. Their staff and downstream dependants won't be buying anything from the USA with the money they are no longer getting. Americans will pay their greedy local producers more for lower quality. |
