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A Change in World Powers?

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Bad Brains said:
If you ask me these countries are way overpopulated. I don't know if that's going to affect anything but I wouldn't be surprised.

Just think, China has over 1,000,000,000 more people then the U.S. I think this place is crowded, could you just imagine? If China wanted to crush us I bet they could.
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What do you mean by crowded? Maybe in the city. But there's LOTS of room in this country.
 
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higgi said:
This may sound weird but we need to replace our fading industrial economy with an agricultural economy at least for international trade. We have a growing service economy now when coupled with agriculture would be enough to maintain our standard of living. Every one has to eat, there are few places in the world that can match our farmland. The price of food is going to rise sharply in the next twenty years as China and others get larger and develops more of their farm land for living and industrial use. If it weren't for immigration we would have a steady or even declining population. Farming is not the back breaking work it used to be. We over produce as it is, we just need to manage our output in such a way as to rotate field usage and not flood the market.
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My moderate-conservative husband and my left-leaning independent libertarian-ista self agree. He's actually been talking about buying a small amount of stock...couple of goats, some chickens, a horse or two, and planting a truck garden (heirlooms, no hybrids, they don't come true to seed) to supplement us and our income.

Rodale, in conjunction with Texas A&M, has done some interesting research on the application of organic techniques to large-scale agriculture. When the Big Bidness Farms feel the pinch, I hope they will avail themselves of that research. Those methods are more sustainable over the long-term than the chemical methods.

Cherie
 
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bmc said:
Nope...I'm a bloody immigrant, enjoying the cheese, chocolate, wine and stunning geography.

As I always say, "Bloody foreigners. I've had problems with them ever since I came to this country!"
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My best friend's younger brother did pretty much the same thing, although it was after meeting a Swiss girl at school and falling in love with her. Now he's been living in Zurich for nearly 20 years, married, and has a couple kids. He works for a bank that a few years ago became part of the Bank of Boston empire, and I can't keep track of whether it's been sucked up by another bank or not.
 
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america has a false economy. it only appears to be doing well, but one day its going to crash, and crash horribly, for america. america's balance of payments should be an embarrassment to america.
the same problem exists in britain. maggie thatcher (clueless and dogmatic leader we once had) sold off all the family silver when she was in power. that was a bad mistake because all the manufacturing etc was our economic backbone. her solution of privatising everything and selling everything off was ONLY good as a short term solution to enable her to get in power again. i think its a great shame that politicians can only think in the short term and enough to gain power again for the next election. none of them think in the long term because, even though thats beneficial to the country and the public as a whole, its not beneficial to the politician seeking power and re-election. businesses are equally guilty when they outsource everything to india and china so that whenever one has to call up our bank etc, we get an indian who can hardly speak english on the phone.
it just goes to show that democracy doesn't work.
 
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