American Economics Thread
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Unfortunately for putting Trump into the White House and being a republican state that loves him to death, they got what they wanted and if they keep on causing everyone around the world trouble, then there is no incentive in saving anyone of these morons. Now let’s see what next month brings, I know November is when all hell breaks loose but really after all his actions that has got even the corporations to hate him, I honestly want to see him and all his supporters suffer the full consequences of their actions. No more of this pinning someone else to take the pain, they must feel it this time after all they have done and the impact must last so that they know what it feels when they bomb/sanction an innocent country into the ground
I also apologies if my response is a tad strong/bloodthirsty but given that the USA are the aggressors for so long and given how they are committing sin after sin with the leaders not caring about the consequences in the slightest and with the general populous in support of Trump's actions, I feel that unless the entire government suffers for real for all the actions they have committed and yet have the gall to paint themselves have heroes for doing so, then the USA cannot dare to call themselves a nation that champions human rights (especially since they are the greatest violators of it). Hence this nation needs to be truly sent into a depression/torn down and made to build the nation back up into a nation that doesn't solve every problem by bombing/sanction it to hell and back
America was a "great" country until the Federal Reserve came into power and took it off the gold standard.
It then had to use the military to force the Dollar upon the world.
And ? How much room does US' retail consumption, as part of GDP, still have for future growth prospect ? Compared to China's ? And that is not even taking into account the fact that China is set to surpass US as the world largest retail market this year or next.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Wow an excellent article thanks for posting it So many good and profound thought in this article but I like this best. Remind me of quote by Joseph De Maistre"Every nation gets the government it deserves."
It sadden me to see US that once the shining mansion on the hill turn upside down
American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society. That social democracy will never take hold in the United States may well be true, but, if so, it is a stunning indictment, and just what Oscar Wilde had in mind when he quipped that the United States was the only country to go from barbarism to decadence without passing through civilization.
Evidence of such terminal decadence is the choice that so many Americans made in 2016 to prioritize their personal indignations, placing their own resentments above any concerns for the fate of the country and the world, as they rushed to elect a man whose only credential for the job was his willingness to give voice to their hatreds, validate their anger, and target their enemies, real or imagined. One shudders to think of what it will mean to the world if Americans in November, knowing all that they do, elect to keep such a man in political power. But even should Trump be resoundingly defeated, it’s not at all clear that such a profoundly polarized nation will be able to find a way forward. For better or for worse, America has had its time.
The end of the American era and the passing of the torch to Asia is no occasion for celebration, no time to gloat. In a moment of international peril, when humanity might well have entered a dark age beyond all conceivable horrors, the industrial might of the United States, together with the blood of ordinary Russian soldiers, literally saved the world. American ideals, as celebrated by Madison and Monroe, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy, at one time inspired and gave hope to millions.
If and when the Chinese are ascendant, with their concentration camps for the Uighurs, the ruthless reach of their military, their 200 million surveillance cameras watching every move and gesture of their people, we will surely long for the best years of the American century. For the moment, we have only the kleptocracy of Donald Trump. Between praising the Chinese for their treatment of the Uighurs, describing their internment and torture as “exactly the right thing to do,” and his dispensing of medical advice concerning the therapeutic use of chemical disinfectants, Trump blithely remarked, “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” He had in mind, of course, the , but, as others have said, he might just as well have been referring to the American dream.
PikeCowboy
Junior Member
what kind of torturing btw? I never figured it out, the BBC video they posted advertised as a guy getting tortured just showed him sitting in bed (handcuffed tbs...)
china's doing something in xinjiang but exactly what I don't think anyone really knows at this point
china's doing something in xinjiang but exactly what I don't think anyone really knows at this point