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To: Snowshoe who wrote (84620)	12/15/2011 10:27:03 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218030

Yes, it certainly looks good with the ladies. In China they are mostly just doing it for the money and so they don't have to get a real job. So their hearts are not in it. It's just the bosses who keep the game going. I watched some soldiers being trained in a side road off Tienanmen Square and some poor young guy was being bawled out by his boss. "Do you want me to send you back to pick rice in the hinterlands, without clothes and food? Salute like mad then when I hold Mao's picture up." [I didn't get the translation perfectly but it looked like he might have been saying that]. Mostly I got the impression that they weren't as mean as they were trying to pretend that they were. But they had enough mean swine to keep everyone is line, which is mostly how totalitarians work. They are criminals who manage to temporarily flip society back to front. Criminals can only exist off the backs of producers, who find ways to avoid producing. So it only lasts while the boss can keep the power going over the citizen-serfs or slaves. As they said in USSR, "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." So Made in China roads crumble, buildings fall over, milk is made of melamine, and the bosses are getting outa there with the loot as quickly as they can. In Germany, it was pretty much for real with not so much pretence. Germans mean business. ElM goes on about Brazil becoming a great power, but they won't. They'll go so far then decide to have another carnival, siesta and party while raiding the till. Already they are heading down that track. My father said taking Italians prisoner was easy [in WWII}. Neither side wanted to fight and as soon as the Italians got a chance, they'd surrender. One Allied soldier could take 1000 prisoners and thei prisoners would carry the gun so the boss could do a better job of getting them to safety, food, water and relaxation. Nobody wanted to surrender to the Japanese who were vicious and the Japanese were not keen on surrender. The Germans were a different kettle of fish from the Italians. They meant business. One Allied soldier could mind just a few German prisoners and it was a good idea to keep the gun pointed at them. Mqurice