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Foolish Left-Wing Western Idealism Crushes Sri Lanka's Economy
Red State ^ | 07/11/2022 | Joe Cunningham

Posted on 07/11/2022 10:01:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/11/2022 10:01:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It brought about chaos and great unrest. That is when the communists can slither in and take over.


2 posted on 07/11/2022 10:09:23 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SeekAndFind

Shri Lanka is just the first domino to fall. Most of the third world (and fourth if you include much of Africa and the Middle East) have been playing economic games with their currency to artificially lower prices to create stability. This runs through foreign reserves pretty fast when the economic tide reverses. This means an increasing number of failed nation’s citizens will hop on ships to Latin America where they can convoy to America’s southern border. We really don’t have three more years to get ready. We need reasonable policies to protect Americans NOW.


3 posted on 07/11/2022 10:13:27 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry. )
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Global warming.
The cure is a lot worse than the disease.
To save us from mildly higher temperatures we are all going to starve and freeze to death!


4 posted on 07/11/2022 10:15:39 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: SeekAndFind

In all likelihood, THE MISHANDLING THE RESPONSE TO COVID-19 sped up this particular collapse.

There, fixed it.


5 posted on 07/11/2022 10:23:53 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Reversing the green revolution of the 1960s (fertilizers, high yield varieties, mechanization and irrigation), unsurprisingly, reversed the gains that it brought.

De-industrialization would be a similarly predictable disaster, also advocated by the Left. So would shutting down “fossil fuels”.

I think it was Thomas Sowell who said that Left sought to replace what works, with what sounds good.


6 posted on 07/11/2022 10:41:53 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: AZJeep

Of course the left is going to blame the crop shortage on the “climate crisis”


7 posted on 07/11/2022 10:44:12 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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De-industrialization would be a similarly predictable disaster, also advocated by the Left and the Free Traitor™ right.

Fixed it.

8 posted on 07/11/2022 10:45:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: BeauBo
I think it was Thomas Sowell who said that Left sought to replace what works, with what sounds good.

An excellent quote. Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.

9 posted on 07/11/2022 10:55:07 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: SeekAndFind

https://thecountersignal.com/trudeau-nitrogen-policy-will-decimate-canadian-farming/

Canada trying to do the same as the Netherlands. Kill farming.


10 posted on 07/11/2022 11:08:06 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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Canada trying to do the same as the Netherlands. Kill farming.

Killing Kulaks is back in vogue.

11 posted on 07/11/2022 11:08:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They also borrowed a lot of money from China to build a coastal railroad to transport agricultural products to the port more efficiently and slow-walked the project. I suspect a lot of the loan proceeds ended up in the pockets of politicians.


12 posted on 07/11/2022 11:20:50 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: SeekAndFind

Depopulation is the goal. War and hunger are good ways to get there.


13 posted on 07/11/2022 11:26:46 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

Of course the left is going to blame the crop shortage on the “climate crisis”
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Of course! Everything bad is caused by the climate change.
Without it, we would be living in paradise!
In this case, they are right, sort of! The starvation in Sri Lanca is caused by stupid response to it.

BTW, the basepoint for the “climate change” was chosen somewhere in the beginning of 1800ties. During the tail end of Little Ice Age.
The life was quite rough then, the agricultural yield were very low, people were starving, Thames was freezing over, etc.
We really do not want to go there!
It sort of helped America then.
The starving Europeans moved to the USA en masse to find warmer place!


14 posted on 07/11/2022 11:49:30 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: SeekAndFind
You say you want an insurrection
Well, you know...
/John Lennon

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We'd all love to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free your mind instead

Those lyrics still get me. He was talking about Democrats
wanting to change the constitution, not Republicans!

15 posted on 07/11/2022 3:13:40 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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Some suggest that Lennon liked Reagan after they met briefly during halftime of a Monday Night Football game


16 posted on 07/11/2022 3:19:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is another "success story" which can be attributed to the World Economic Foundation (WEF) .
Add to this the Germans and the European Union turning their back on the Green New Deal,
and opening back up coal generation plants so that they don't freeze to death this next winter.
Also, add to this the prospects of brown-outs and power black-outs in Mexifornia and the Mid West this summer
and also the drought conditions in the west which will lead to shortages of drinking water and agricultural irrigation.
Just some natural and man-made conditions that a common sense and rational individual would consider
while the country is in "transition" from a petroleum based economy into renewable energy production - where there is no "transition" (!).
17 posted on 07/11/2022 4:26:42 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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It’s for their own good. As Chomo Joe says, “this is an incredible transition.”


18 posted on 07/11/2022 10:13:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Romulus

Par for the course.


19 posted on 07/11/2022 10:21:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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I suspect a lot of the loan proceeds ended up in the pockets of politicians.

Sri Lanka ****ed up. Let the UN handle this.

20 posted on 07/11/2022 10:24:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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