On Jun 27, 12:53=A0pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> darkstar7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote
> > Then we are finished as an economy, a culture, and a nation.
>
> Plenty of fools have claimed that before. Not one has ever got that
right=
..
You need a good look at the present situation -- we have a group in
power who is openly machinating the end of our economy, culture, and
nation.
> > The only disagreement I might have with the op is that it's not going
> > to be a national effort -- but an international one, like the Marshall
=
Plan.
>
> Nope, the way we do things will change over time, just like it has done
> countless times before, as what was previously the best way to do
> things is no longer and we move on to a better way of doing things.
At the cost of how much unrest and how many lives?
What happens when the entire American way of life is no longer the
best way to do things? What happens when the entire American way of
life becomes unsustainable? This isn't something you can turn on and
off like a switch, sir. And if you think it is...
> That wont be electric cars for enough to matter, you watch.
There won't be electricity enough to matter for the better number of
Americans. You don't get it -- the whole she-bang is ****ed.
> > And I think most of the real powers of the world
>
> No such animal.
There are economic and societal powers in this world -- we just are
not one of them anymore.
Or is THAT why you believe there is no real power in this world
anymore?
> > would rather see the US and the Western World fall entirely into the
Th=
ird World.
>
> There are certainly plenty of fools that would like to see that.
And those "fools" are, as I said before, many of the real powers of
the world.
> It isnt going to happen tho, you watch.
Bull****.
> Have a look at where EVERY SINGLE TECHNOLOGY since the industrial
> revolution has come from. And plenty of other dramatic advances like
> vaccination and the human genome project etc as well.
>
> Then have a look at what those fools who would like to see the US and
the=
Western
> World fall entirely into the Third World have managed to produce
themselv=
es and
> even you should be able to grasp how completely irrelevant those fools
ar=
e.
What's to say we aren't, as a world, about to go backwards a couple
hundred years to wipe out a lot of those advances, except for the very
few and very rich who are going to be the last ones left?
Get with reality.
Mike
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