tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post112913216118460534..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Is this the beginning of the Chinese century?BadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1129296809316372932005-10-14T06:33:00.000-07:002005-10-14T06:33:00.000-07:00And I personally think we will collapse sooner rat...And I personally think we will collapse sooner rather than later. The fact that China holds so much of our debt cannot be good for us. The fact that our educational system, once the world's finest is not only in the crapper, it's being overrun by fanatical nutjobs who want to teach ID alongside evolution - (let the kids decide???? wtf is that??) - can only erode our biggest asset: our technological prowess.<BR/><BR/>Remember, the US retooled our industrial base in less than 5 years because of WWII. China now has the monetary resources to do that, and US industry is in the act of doing it for them.<BR/><BR/>I personally think that we are in deep doo doo, and cannot smell the guck sticking to our knees!SB Gypsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14104522586390324382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1129137673244581622005-10-12T10:21:00.000-07:002005-10-12T10:21:00.000-07:00Actually, the same might be said of our *own* gove...Actually, the same might be said of our *own* government at the moment, as you are personally experiencing. I.e., that it has become a parasitic encumberence upon economic activity, actively hindering, rather than helping.<BR/><BR/>The difference is that we have 200 years of inertia keeping the whole thing from collapsing of its own weight -- for the moment. But it WILL collapse, eventually, much as the Roman Empire finally collapsed when the barbarians probed at the borders of the Empire, discovered that the vaunted Roman legions had detiorated until they were just paper tigers... and romped through the Empire at will, looting and plundering and destroying it all.<BR/><BR/>- Badtux the History PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1129133985850272982005-10-12T09:19:00.000-07:002005-10-12T09:19:00.000-07:00Just like the Soviets were not the threat people t...Just like the Soviets were not the threat people thought they were, their parisitic type of government ate away at any type of ability to generate enough economic power to sustain itself.<BR/><BR/>Somne of China sees this and they are tryig to move, although slowly, to a more capitalistic environment; but in doing so the hard line communist will find that they are powerlessOle Blue The Heretichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15607608554845566519noreply@blogger.com