Homeowner Forum / Construction / November 2005

'fortunately' the current approach, off shoring US production,
and bloated goverment is collapsing the US tax base.. so the
mess will at least be addressed.

... ever so slowly the federal govt is  instituting import
tarrifs to fund govt.  tarrifs will drive the cost of imported
goods up.  And make domestically produced goods and labor more
viable also... for about 6 months.

the down side of that is that Japan and China own trillions of
dollars of US debt and can call that in at any time....
bankrupting the US on the spot if it doesnt like paying the
tarrifs.

Beyond that are the macro economic issues...

.....a country that consumes but does not produce collapses.

The US is a massive net consumer of inported goods and is
hemoraging over a trillion dollars a year in money it doesnt
even have... it is selling its 'soul' for utterly bogus short
term profit.

. the chickens have *already come home to roost... soon there
will be more.  With no way to reverse the trend.

I don't think it is reversible now actually..  we have already
decimated our replacment generation with  high school drop out
rates near 40% on average..  and illiterate high school
graduates... and BSME's that that think water flows up hill.

then we trained and set up our completion in china to
under-cut what remains of US manufacturing in the world
markets.

For any idiots present, a 100%  'service economy' collapses
due to no actual wealth creates by actual goods production.
The 'service economy' crap was a sick joke... presented by
idiots in government.    100% bogus.

The US can no longer 'service' the rest of the world with
engineering and medicine either, since it has fallen behind in
both of those areas predominantly (but not yet in every single
case, just most cases).

Currently the US is 'servicing' the rest of the world with
cruize missiles, shock and awe ... and Dicky Cheeny's dick.

Thats not working either.

Solutions:
Repatriate all offshore production, suffer the consequences.

Tarrifs on imports.  Cut the size of US govt by 80%.

Apologize to those nations we have hosed since descending from
our previous status as a decent and free nation in the  world
war II era.

Spend the money saved on effective education and in funding
research.

Effective education is self driven, self paced and on line, no
time wasted in driving to school and sitting in classes that
move at the pace of the dimmest dimwit....

and accelerated by personnel departments that are looking for
actual capability....not 'when did you do ____ last'.. etc.
then disallowing you to get experience in areas you have not
already been proficient in... thats cultural and corporate
insantiy fronted by basket weaver graduates running HR
departments.

Will that happen?   No.

Why not?  Because Dicky Cheenie, GWB and the boyz have long
since moved their money to China..thats where the money is.
and because the civil servants, retired civil servants, and
their relatives and vested interests make up a near majority
of the electorate, which will vote the nation into the pits as
fully detailed and predicted for democracies by our founding
fathers....nearly 260 years ago on the money.   (the life span
of most nations).

Our founding fathers  stated explicity that democracies always
fail this way, and that they had given us a *republic  (rule
by law not popular vote)   "if you can keep it".

We have not kept it.

The US will now collapse from its preiminent peak as a world
power to a debtor state, subserviant to the interest of China
and India.....

Such collapse is comon to all pure democracies before us...
rule by the mass of idiots always fails.

Currently we still have shreds of our republic in tact, the
constitution enforced somewhat by the US supreme court.
However, with the rise of a bloated civil servant class we are
decimating whats left of that, with the homeland security act
etc.

Fortunately GWB has hosed us so throughly now that complete
disaster looms, the lies are obvious ...  half of those jerks
would be felons if we could bring them to trial...  the hyper
inflation card is being played covertly... its not working.

.... all those lies just in the last 2 months have turned the
neocon juggernaut, thought unstoppable earlier this year, to a
red faced disaster world wide.

...will the 'democrats' fix that?  Nah....

the corrective measures at this point are too painful for any
democratically based political means to address, the debt and
debilitation is too far south for resurection...

... the mess will now go through the historically inevitable
and constantly repeating cycle... collapse, nasty times for
hundred or more years, then slow rise from the ashes of a
differnt sort of arrangement.

What can one do to mitigate the mess personally?... step out
of the line of fire.

Eat whats left of the sushi .  Drink beer.  Become ubber fit
and healthy, and skilled, have no debt and *minimal taxable
assets (those will be used as leverage to work you to death).
('pay or we will seize the assets'... is the snearing federal
and state agency mantra.)

Thats also standard, most people opt to work themselves to
death until the work runs out...then they starve.    The state
knows this.  Do youself a favor, do not engage in that cycle.

I recommend a lean, skilled and relaxed life style now and
study of this mess, so you will know which way to side step
the hose job to whatever degree possible.

ymmv

Phil Scott