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links234
I believe it's something about the percent of GDP or something like that.
xuenchen
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The numbers are just as bad.
Bluesma
Your description of the way the american system has has deteriotrated does not challenge my assertion that possibly all systems will do so, one way or another.
I still hold that entropy is probably inevitable, and adaptability seems to be a bigger a factor in evolution and survival of systems than is remaining static.
Bluesma
As it is, people with much more education and knowledge than us...
Bluesma
...do not agree and still have opinions on this, so I guess nobody is God and can claim to possess ultimate divine truth . That would be really fun though.
BardingTheBard
Sure... if you consider "entropy" to be the equivalent of failing to maintain your car because you're constantly being deceived into helping fight your neighbors battles and believe they *actually* intend to improve, but never do, even though you have nothing to do with their disagreements. While trying to help one part of the family... their kids are coming over hitting it with baseball bats and stripping it of whatever they can take......
The US is European now. And you hate the reflection.
It has never been us against each other... it has been them manipulating all of us via lies, fabrications, tapping into the deepest fears and passions, targeting the ignorant with "printed money" to place them in high positions and put the words in their mouths to deceive entire nations into believing something about other nations that wasn't true... but unable to be tested... etc.
The US has been a European nation in all ways that matter since 1913... and we've been stuck playing the same European script right along side you.
Cars can be maintained... so can nations. Entropy and needing to "adapt" have nothing to do with dealing with a group of people who have as their sole goal to take your car from you and "let you ride around in it, so long as you don't cause too much trouble"... and if they can't take it then their other goal is to destroy it so you can't drive on "their roads".
We've ALL been prevented from actually evolving by it.
We do not get to have opinions on what happened except whether we support it or not.
You are only in a position to speak for yourself there.
We've had the evidence and warnings for hundreds of years from simple humans who lived through them... and humans who lived through usury based and inflationary based economies for thousands of years.
To ignore their warnings though...
xuenchen
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
yes yes of course.
we've all seen the results of debt management by the experts.
get ready to get busted-out by the most educated expert geniuses in the world.
Bluesma
I consider that no car will run forever, even if you maintain it. It is a system too. "If it's not one thing, it's another..." (as Rosanna Rosannadanna used to say )
The US is European now. And you hate the reflection.
Bluesma
What?? I hate what? I don't feel like I hate anything! Where did you get this idea??
Bluesma
So... you agree with me then? It was certain people, corrupt and power hungry, that did this to the masses of both Europe and America..?
The US has been a European nation in all ways that matter since 1913... and we've been stuck playing the same European script right along side you.
Bluesma
-You do realize I am American...?
Bluesma
That is more about individuals right to pursue happiness... it made them happy to do this, you see. They couldn't be expected to limit their pursuit of happiness in the name of "the majority", or the collective, could they?
But corruption is as old as humans themselves, no matter what the values in vogue anyway.
crazyewok
crazyewok
reply to post by BardingTheBard
oopp I just pulled random norway pcitures off google and it came under norway.
Il find a better one
Ivar_Karlsen
crazyewok
reply to post by BardingTheBard
oopp I just pulled random norway pcitures off google and it came under norway.
Il find a better one
Go google Oslo, if there's tall buildings like in Austin, it aint from Norway.
xuenchen
crazyewok
xuenchen
reply to post by Merinda
What's the national debts of all these nations.
I bet they're just as broke as everybody else.
Nope norway, swedon and demark have a very sustainble debt and in some cases run a surplus :p
Nawwwhhh.
They're just as busted out as anybody.
Per Capita national debts:
Norway = $55,000
Sweden = $20,000
Denmark = $26,000
U.S. = $40,000
Australia = $17,000
Canada = $45,000
U.K. = $37,000
Japan = $99,000
Better:
Russia = $1,300
China = $1,100
They're all a bunch of Rothschild bust outs.
Global Debts