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To: TobagoJack who wrote (73381)	4/20/2011 7:08:40 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217561

That's a funny thing. I don't really have hope. <should you be optimistic in the way that i think you might be, you should give up the ghost of hope > Hope implies an expectation of failure as a distinct possibility. It's more a matter of "shall I do it, or goof off some more". As soon as I decide to make the major paradigm shift happen, it is a done deal and just a question of timing. The decided things become a matter of emerging reality rather than hope. Some of them, such as CDMA, can take decades to fully emerge. One must be patient in life, which is an excellent Confucian VVV. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (73381)	4/20/2011 7:33:35 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217561

Asking Wikipedia, patience doesn't appear to be a Confucian virtue whereas it certainly is a VVV. But perhaps Wikipedia doesn't have the fine print version of Confucianism because patience seems such a basic VVV it is surprising if Confucius hadn't put it down as an aspirational virtue. Good point here: < the less the king does, the more gets done. By being the "calm center" around which the kingdom turns, the king allows everything to function smoothly and avoids having to tamper with the individual parts of the whole. > The decadent western so-called [laughably] free world has no calm centre but a maelstrom at the centre with hordes of kleptocratic busy-bodies dabbling and tampering with anything that moves and compulsorily making move anybody who doesn't. Not for democratic states the "calm centre" with a hands-off Confucian VVV philosophy. In democracy it's Confusion rather than Confucian. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (73381)	4/20/2011 9:42:08 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217561

China trims its holdings of US Treasury secuities Updated: 2011-04-15 21:52 WASHINGTON - China, the biggest buyer of US Treasury securities, trimmed its holdings for a fourth straight month in February and Japan boosted its holdings one month before a devastating earthquake hit the country. US Treasury Department says China reduced its holdings by $600 million to $1.15 trillion. Japan, the second largest foreign holder, boosted its holdings by $4.4 billion to $890.3 billion. There have been concerns that the March earthquake and tsunami may cause Japan to scale back its purchases in order to use the money for reconstruction. Total foreign holdings increased 0.5 percent to $4.47 trillion. However, as US government moves closer to the $14.3 trillion debt limit, it will have to scale back sales unless Congress moves to raise the limit. chinadaily.com.cn