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To: WilliamHouston
(3) There isn’t going to be a globalized economy 10 to 20 years from now. Just because globalization has been a fad since the demise of the USSR doesn’t mean it is something that will go on forever.

A fad? You are predicting an 80% crash in the human population here.

42 posted on 09/05/2011 11:01:26 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

There aren’t many new ideas in the world.

“Globalization” is hardly a new idea. It has been tried many times before. This is only the most extreme example of globalization in world history.

Suppose you live in a small town in Tennessee. You spend most of your time buying what you need at Wal-Mart. Where does it come from?

Most of the manufactured junk seems to come from China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and so forth. The textiles come from Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras and so on.

The capitalists then beat their chests and brag about the “superior” system they have created. Yeah, but it comes at the tremendous cost: the cost of being dependent upon vaguely hostile foreigners who live far away, the cost of losing the know how to produce things nearby, the extraordinary cost of vulnerability in some kind of crisis.

Again, we have become more dependent upon foreigners for literally everything: not just the manufactured crap, which we could produce here if we wanted, but dependent upon the energy reserves of foreign countries, dependent upon foreigners to finance our debt addled “post-reality” lifestyle, increasingly dependent upon foreigners to come here and prop up the higher sectors of our economy.

Americans sheepishly go to the gas station and fill up with regular unleaded at Citgo. They go to the supermarket to buy food that is shipped in from god knows where. They invest their deposits in banks which does god knows what with them. They go to the Wal-Mart to buy stuff that comes from vast distances.

Let’s see how long it works! Not long, I bet. And when that system unravels, it will produce a very familiar type of chaos.


44 posted on 09/05/2011 11:16:36 PM PDT by WilliamHouston
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To: dr_lew
an 80% crash in the human population here

Do not have a link, yet somewhere in the deep dark recesses probably is a plan. A plan I do not endorse. There have been some links and there are those who do believe, if the people become uncontrollable the plan (probably in existence) would be unleashed. Perhaps the plan is already underway and unleashed? Do not know, but sometimes fear the plan is underway ...

90 posted on 09/06/2011 8:19:40 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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