Posted on 01/04/2013 11:30:40 AM PST by Kaslin
This would have sounded reasonable before the elections of 2008 and 2012.
Thank you for posting this fascinating article. Worth reading several times, and pondering at length.
Obama is doing everything possible to stop the development of a middleclass anywhere. The middle class threatens his bizarre Marxist ideology, which is not based on rising prosperity but on the gulf between the haves and the have-nots.
Our biggest problem is going to be underpopulation, not only in the US but even in the Third World before too long. China is going to crash because its one-child policy has led to virtually no female births, the impossibility of reproducing, and entire areas where there are no longer workers.
Even here in the US, when you travel outside of any big urban area, you find a depopulated land and some abandoned former urban areas that literally look as if a neutron bomb had dropped on them.
That’s going to be the big problem in the future: no markets.
This stands out:
“The first rule of organizations is that first-rate executives hire first-rate executives. President Reagan was a first-rate executive and he brought in a varsity team: Bill Casey, at the CIA, Cap Weinberger at defense, Jeanne Kirkpatrick at UN and they hired first rate executives themselves.”
Unlike the current imposter in chief who surrounds himself with lackeys...
A few years ago, I read a book called Washington Station by a former KGB spy who was given that assignment during the Reagan years. Another signal to the Soviets that they had been beat is when they reviewed blueprints recovered from the trash bins of defense and intelligence agencies in Washington showing technology that they weren't even capable of copying.
Today, the enemy doesn't even have to employ third world cleaning people to recover these blueprints from Washington trashcans. A simple call to one of Obama's handlers will get them delivered.
ergo...Obama is not a first rate executive.
Not that he had anything in his entire life history to indicate that he was up to the job anyway.
bflr
Kind of ironic, isn’t it? The article predicts a booming, world-wide middle class. Meanwhile Obama is doing everything he can to abolish the middle class and all its values so he can manipulate envy, greed and covetousness. I guess he’d better pedal faster.
Kind of ironic, isn’t it? The article predicts a booming, world-wide middle class. Meanwhile Obama is doing everything he can to abolish the middle class and all its values so he can manipulate envy, greed and covetousness. I guess he’d better pedal faster.
As our country no longer produces anything but welfare babies, we have nothing to offer this coming "Supersonic boom."
Shame that the fall of the USSR is still being touted as “communism’s demise” when it was anything but. Russia is currently being ruled by a man who believes that the fall of the USSR was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century, and he is working fast to recreate the USSR albeit in his own image (he’s currently calling it the Eurasian Union). Red China took on the mantle of communism after the USSR fell, with the help of US liberals, and the European Union continued in its quest to build equally-totalitarian social “democracy”. And of course, Islamic socialism (based on Nazism) was allowed to metastasize into the monster it is today. No, this fight is not over by a long shot, and there are traitors to the USA’s version of republicanism aplenty.
The author is certainly right about this part, particularly with what is happening to the US under Obama's oppression.
Thanks for the article. I enjoyed reading Meyer’s historical perspective. I also agree that we are watching the growing wave of a world-wide economic boom, where the world will achieve a level of global prosperity never previously experienced. If you are a Formula 1 racing fan as I am, you see this in the world of auto racing. F1 is staging events in places like Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Abu Dhabi & Shanghai, that 50 years ago were hell holes. Today they are gleaming modern cities. In fact, looking at them and comparing them to our democrat controlled cesspits, I think they’ve passed us by.
And that’s one of the ironies of the article. As more and more people escape poverty globally, in America more and more people slip into its chains. We are not as competitive as we once were by virtually every important yardstick. And because we are so dysfunctional, we are likely to let this opportunity pass us by. I deliberatly chose the word “watching” in the paragraph above, instead of “creating.”
The other irony of the article is that it was Reagan’s victory in the Cold War that created the conditions for this world-wide boom.
At the same time I am sure Obamugabe and his running dog lackeys have absolutely no understanding of that problem. Fur Shur, none of them ever worked in factories, nor did they train to be mechanical or design engineers.
The Chinese may actually have a numeric edge on us now that they have 8 times as many industrial workers (with their bosses, and a major industrial and design engineering establishment)
Did you realize the Chicoms already have more Christians than we do ~ and in a few years will have more Protestants than the rest of the world combined.
Btt
None of his books are at my public library, or in it’s network system.
The reviews on amazon are decidedly mixed.
For what all that’s worth.
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Indonesia (250 million) and Malaysia (30 million) are two large 'muslim' countries that are doing just fine reconciling islam and the modern world.
“Even here in the US, when you travel outside of any big urban area, you find a depopulated land and some abandoned former urban areas that literally look as if a neutron bomb had dropped on them.”
I live in fairly rural central MA and nothing could be further from the truth. In fact I would say that this applies to urban areas like in Detroit not the suburbs or rural areas.
My daughter spend a year teaching English in China. Christian churches are officially frowned upon and regular Chinese are not supposed to attend. Nevertheless, she had several Chinese freinds who regularly accompanied her to services in a distant town.
When she asked them if they were worried about official government sanction, they told her they were not. As far as officialdom was concerned, they were just socializing with a foreign friend and improving their English skills.
I think it is entirely possible that it will be Asian Christians, especially Chinese, who play a prominent role in saving America.
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