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To: Chas. who wrote (46186)	2/5/2009 8:44:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217705

Wrinkly <what do you think the American Urban Social landscape will look like in the next 10 years...???> And wrinklier [more sun and greater average age] : <The Rural Social landscape...??? > After 10 years, people look a lot older than they did a decade before. Barack will be quite grey - he has flecks of grey now and it doesn't go away for POTUS. Bust Baby Boomers confronting their dotage are going to be unhappy having to work until they drop. The suicide rate will increase as people realize they can't afford medical treatment because they drank, ate and wasted their income over decades instead of saving and investing it. Young people [immigrants especially and particularly Islamic Jihadists] aren't going to vote for dopey Baby Boomers to live high on the hog in their old age. Young people know there's not going to be much left over for them with hordes of immigrants diluting the national assets, being given a share of USA Inc. for no charge at all and old geezers gobbling the rest. Maybe Ron Paul will win next time around. There seems little chance of it because few people understand what makes the world a good place instead of a socialist poverty. I guess they'll v ote for more of the same and will no doubt get it. Argentina in the early 20th century was a well-off place. By the end of the century it was a bankrupt joke. Great Britain was very great in 1899 but by 1999 was a pale shadow of itself, of little consequence around the world. Populations have to vote to keep things good and act to maintain it if they want it. Mostly they don't. Or maybe everything will be great, Obama will be kept on as POTUS by putting Michele in as President - "8 MORE YEARS!!" SUVs will crowd the highways, GM, GE and Google will stride across the planet bringing wealth to all. The blip of a few mortgages going sour will be long forgotten. The workshops of China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Japan, Russia and Europe will deliver cargo galore to the USA and all will be happy. Even Africa will be looking better. Mqurice

To: Chas. who wrote (46186)	2/6/2009 1:07:22 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217705

Too busy this Friday. Saturday I will tell exactly what the urban socual landscape of a US rertuing to size with a thud will be.

To: Chas. who wrote (46186)	2/6/2009 1:22:31 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217705

Too busy this Friday. Saturday I will tell exactly what the urban social landscape of a US returning to size with a thud will be.

To: Chas. who wrote (46186)	2/6/2009 11:33:04 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217705

You meant "What a returned to natural size US will look like?" But that I can tell you my friend. Europe has egalitarian culture. US has not. Poor people -in the US returned to natural size- will get screwed. It is a law of nature. They always do. Look nowhere else. Just keep that idea of poorer people getting screwed. Everything will flow from that fact. Then you will see corruption, criminality, divisiveness inside that society. This US poor people we see today, is new. 50 years ago it was a South Africa without apartheid written into law. But it was there. Then came civil liberties, the 60s and things got more civilized as the poorer peopole got their voices heard. In the coming years, as the poorer people get screwed, without that egalitarian ethos of the Europeans, they will act. The governing elite knows that and have done something at the political level to defuse it. Second, people live a lot based on what they see in their surroundings. Man is a product of the medium. And that medium shapes man. In a US returned to the natural size, infrastructure will crumble as municipalities no longer can run the local governments, this is aggravated by uneven grip on power leaving some places as laggards. That points to pockets of poverty. Is a rule of the nature's law too. It's been happening since the dawn of mankind. As neighborhoods deteriorate, people get used to that visual effect. They become mentally poor. They get used to things not working. This has a terrible effect on the mindset of people. That's why the trillion must go to infrastructure to keep the surroundings from deteriorating. Make no mistake, the US governing elite is clever and know how to deal with their populaces. Asking a Kiwi about those things? Forget MQ because he has not been born and lived in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth world. It is Elmat who knows how the real work is all about.