[Savage Beast]

Hey--you remember in The Good Earth that old dowager, who spent all her time smoking opium and, whenever told that there was no more money for opium, demanded: "Sell more land"!

That's the decadent 21st century Americans for you! "Borrow more money!"

Meanwhile, the hard working, ascendant peasants (one of whom had been her slave) became richer and richer, bought up more and more of her land, until they kicked the old lady off her throne and wound up living in the old dowager's palace!

Man! If anybody understands the cycles of ascendancy and decadence it's the Chinese!

And if anybody can't learn from history (and thus gets to repeat it) it's the decadent 21st century Americans!

[kalee]

Good analogy

[LomanBill]

Land? GeeOpie - we don't need no steeenking land. 

 

Our "Fithcally Conthervative" dowagers built themselves an enterprise that will run forever on a perpetual motion a$$paper printing press...

...we are unveiling its crowning jewel.  I am proud to announce that the state of Texas is investing $20 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund to help Countrywide Financial...

--Governor Ricardo Perry

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10202/

 

Somebody sold the Emperor a "Jewel" made of glass in the shape of an albatross...  but it does go well with his finely tailored un(D)erwear.