Communism destroyed the Soviet Union and would have done the same to the Chinese government absent its dramatic adjustment in ideology under Deng Xiaoping, leader from 1978 to 1989. Russia had a difficult decade after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, but Vladimir Putin, elected president in 2000, has sparked a transition that in its own way has been as dramatic as China’s. While there have been setbacks, since the turn of the century, both countries have been ascendant.
Even prior to the turn of the century, the U.S. has gone the other direction. Its industrial base, so dominant from World War II through the 1960s, has been hollowed out. The FIRE sector (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) has increased its share of the GDP. This sector is based on transfer payments, not production, and is supported by what remains of productive manufacturing. Government, law, accounting, and the medical and educational systems can be characterized in the same way.
Because it exercises coercive power, government has been particularly pernicious. Local, state, and the federal government command over 40 percent of the GDP, and almost all of what they do is counterproductive. They are the parasites killing the host. Perverse, predatory, and destructive ideologies pervade government and its affiliated institutions. Productive Americans and business are smothered by an ever expanding body of laws, regulations, taxes, liabilities, and an exponentially increasing federal debt, which is driving interest rates higher.
I’m kind of hoping Aesop the Russia is losing gentleman shows up to “correct the above information”.
We are in deep trouble as we’ve discussed before. Deep in debt, crippled military, hollowed out industry (unless you want to include the 40% of our Economy IS GOVERMENTAL SERVICES) and plenty of “citizens” that are Gimme Dats and “My Democracy” idiots eager to sabotage Trump and MAGA.
Pray for wisdom HE will give it but you have to act on it.
All Killhouse Rules apply
1. NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE YOU. Whether an event lasts a few seconds, a few hours, or even a few days – you have to work as though nobody is coming to save you.
2. You are your savior, so start working because EVERYTHING IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. You are your security, you are your medic, you are your rescuer.
3. You are your own best resource to SAVE WHO NEEDS TO BE SAVED. Nobody wants to save your life more than you, so set yourself up for success by having the simple tools and knowledge to do so: do what you can with what you have. Recognize that nobody is in a better position to start saving your life than you.
4. Sometimes saving lives means you have to KILL WHO NEEDS TO BE KILLED. It has been almost 15 years since I first wrote “the more effective you are at taking a life, the more successful you’ll be at saving one” and nothing in the intervening time has changed my mind. Be swift, be decisive, be final.
5. Mostly, ALWAYS BE WORKING. There is always something you can be doing to improve your position. Always. Because nobody is coming to save you.
Mankind will have to evolve to a higher Awareness of Life to survive. If not, then Homo Sap will fail as a Species, perhaps to extinction.
China would probably still be a third world economy that had trouble feeding its own people had not Nixon, Kissinger and GHW Bush not betrayed America and “opened” China. But hey, we maximized corporate profits.
Water under the bridge William.
Right now, it seems WE are looking at 3rd world economy if we cannot stop our traitors from crippling all efforts to restore our Republic.