<<What would you say a helicopter seat was worth on that last chopper leaving the roof of the building in Vietnam?>>
... not very much, as the crisis was created by war-mongering americans trying to uphold colonialism and forestall national self determination via engagement in phoenix war crimes too horrid to dwell on, and what came after their humiliating departure was very mild when compared against many other revolutions of the more blood curdling sort, especially after the ever altruistic chinese taught the viet con some manners by sharp but effective and strictly miliary lesson at great cost to self, no charge
<<The Jews who escaped to and were taken into Shanghai were few and fortunate>>
... yes they were, and the tickets that got them to shanghai was worth much, even as china was in chaos, under invasion by neat and tidy japanese, and its people still more than generously took in the unfortunates. what the jews were escaping was the end of the world, even as they were simply escaping into cataclysmic change travelchinaguide.com
<<"As rich as an Argentine" was an expression valid 100 years ago, but now Argentina is used as an example of the end state of self-destruction>>
... rich and smart can be mutually exclusive, especially when the richness is a stroke of good fortune, thievery, and is devoid of true merit.
<<NZ government debt increasing at US$7,000 per year per [non-government employee] taxpayer is serious money, when the GDP per capita is something like US$30,000>>
... as i was going on about rich vs smart :0)
<<[hmmm, same as Hong Kong - I thought Hong Kong was ahead of NZ now]. Especially when NZ is already loaded to the gunwales with debt.>>
the two big differences between hk and nz are that
(i) the former has nought for natural wealth, was robbed in any case, and the latter has much good fortune and engaged in robbing in just about all cases; and
(ii) the former has 7th largest reserve on the planet, plus much tooo much private savings relative to the rest of the known and unknown galaxy, whereas the latter has big goose egg in bank to show for its nature wealth.
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