Re: Mind's Eye Re: What is really going on in America?

Unfortunately 10 some years ago a US President along with a one party
dominated senate and house decided they wanted to go to war and
spend trillions of dollars they didn't have,, with massive amounts of
fear mongering.. what you have is a major garbage dump Obama has been
having handle all of the filth and litter left behind..

Yeah excessive military spending is what brought Russia to its knees..
Allan

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Don Johnson <dajohn@gmail.com> wrote:
> The fiscal cliff will be "avoided" by, of course, raising the debt
> ceiling(again) so we can borrow our way to prosperity, raising taxes and
> printing money. The military will get a "haircut" and we may even raise the
> retirement age for SS a couple of years. Because it's worked so well for us
> so far. It will continue to work well right up until it doesn't anymore and
> the piper comes calling.
>
> My plan is to gather all my ducks and geese together and slip out the back
> Jack.
>
> dj
>
>
> On Friday, November 9, 2012 11:23:30 AM UTC-6, archytas wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/us-debt-problems-threaten-to-send-the-country-and-globe-into-crisis-a-866151.html
>>
>> The Germans are considering the USA as a potential Greece.
>>
>> I'm remembering attitudes towards Japan in the 1980s. There was a
>> dreadful book called 'The Japan That Can Say No' which summaries thus:
>>
>> + Japan must use its technological superiority as a negotiating
>> weapon, and it should
>> even threaten to trade secrets with the Soviet Union as a bargaining
>> tool against the US and refuse to sell components that go into US
>> missiles.
>> + The quality of American goods is low because the level of the
>> workers is low, while the superior education of Japanese workers is a
>> big advantage.
>> + The Japanese character is innately superior to the character of
>> Americans.
>> + Americans believe that the Caucasian race is superior since the
>> modern era is dominated by the western world, and this prejudice will
>> hurt them in the end.
>> + Former American colonies are rife with problems, while former
>> Japanese colonies are thriving.
>>
>> + America's dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and not Germany in
>> World War II arose from racism because Germans are white people and
>> Japanese are not. (Though at the time of the German defeat in April
>> 1945, the atomic bomb was as yet incomplete and untested until July
>> 16, 1945, so that may have been a factor)
>> + The trade surplus with the U.S. is caused by the lack of desirable
>> products made in the U.S.
>>
>> I read it on a plane out there on a journey to discover their
>> shipbuilding secrets. I met a lovely bloke out there who told me the
>> idea of copying Japanese management secrets filled him with dread.
>> The only secret was they were rotten, sexist and callous. Japan fell
>> off its fiscal cliff when I left (1980s). Almost sadly, this wasn't
>> because of anything I left behind. The 'brilliant' Japanese
>> management techniques were taught by lazy lecturers for the next 20
>> years.
>>
>> The coming fiscal cliff in the US isn't like Greece in that USD can be
>> printed at will. Der Spiegel says this:
>>
>> The US has more in common with heavily indebted southern European
>> countries than it might like to admit. And if the country doesn't
>> reach agreement on deficit reduction measures soon, the similarities
>> could become impossible to ignore. The fiscal cliff looms in the near
>> future, and its not just the US that is under threat.
>>
>> The US has finally voted and the dark visions of America's future
>> broadcast on television screens across the country -- and most
>> intensively in battleground states -- have come to an end. Supporters
>> of both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had developed doomsday scenarios
>> for what would happen if their candidate's opponent were to win. Four
>> more years of Obama, the ads warned, would result in pure socialism. A
>> Romney presidency would see the middle and lower classes brutally
>> exploited.
>>
>> But following Obama's re-election, Americans are now facing a
>> different, much more real horror scenario: In just a few weeks time,
>> thousands of children could be denied vaccinations, federally funded
>> school programs could screech to a halt, adults may be forced to
>> forego HIV tests and subsidized housing vouchers would dry up. Even
>> the work of air-traffic controllers, the FBI, border officials and the
>> military could be drastically curtailed.
>>
>> That and more is looming just over the horizon according to the White
>> House if the country is allowed to plunge off the "fiscal cliff" at
>> the beginning of next year. Coined by Federal Reserve head Ben
>> Bernanke, it refers to the vast array of cuts and tax increases which
>> will automatically go into effect if Republicans and Democrats can't
>> agree on measures to slash the US budget deficit.
>>
>> The answer is to abolish debt instead and start again with new world-
>> wide agreements on workers' rights that abolishes races to the
>> bottom. This isn't much in comparison with losing wars and having to
>> rise from real ashes as Germany and Japan did.
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