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On Thu, 18 May 2006 18:50:53 GMT, "Von Fourche"

I agree. My guess is that it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better, and that in my lifetime I may not see the "get better" part of it.

Worldwide trends are very worrisome. Just as technology and the digital revolution are getting into full force, which will eventually dramatically reduce the need for "human resources" (you know, the little units of production that are biological, unpredictable, inefficient, and expendable), hundreds of millions of people from China and other countries are coming "online" (literally and figuratively).

Demand for oil is going to go sky high as Chinese families buy cars (instead of bicycles), and as China and other countries build their infrastructures. At a point instead of worldwide growth in for example autos, the market will be saturated and companies will be competing not for their stake of future growth, but for an increased percentage of zero growth and cost efficiency. Capitalism has worked to a great extent while things were expanding, but how well will it work then?

The U.S. will become a shell of a country, and even the rich will realize that millions of dollar$ are not worth much when our economy collap$e$. One technology to invest in might be anything that helps make the gated communities very secure.

Our U.S. carrier battlegroups will be very obsolete when Iran and other countries have accurate North Korean missiles (or one of their own) capable of lobbing an atomic plant on top of it. Poof! Say goodbye to carrier battlegroup 1.

Iran is proving that a crazy person could be in power in a country with nuke capability. It was obvious before but it's blindingly obvious now. Gee, maybe if we hadn't spent our military resources in a country that didn't have weapons of mbutt destruction we could more credibly use them in a country that is clearly obtaining them.

Bin Laden is probably ecstatic -- the damage he did on 9-11 is very small compared to how it is leading us to blead our economy dry.

Speaking of 9-11 -- 3,000 people died that day, but more than 3,000 people die each day in America because of the 46 million Americans that don't have health insurance.

buttuming the world doesn't go into a great depression and that the transition is orderly, China will become the next power center of the world as the U.S. is left to deal with its mbuttive debt -- i.e. there is no "level playing field" for the U.S., because we already have monetarily ruined that for ourselves.

My solution to all the madness is to live each day fully now. I have zero control over any of the outcomes other than casting my vote.

Radical Acceptance.

Journey