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[jmac00]

Freight is cheap. Container ships made that a reality.

But the real change was one of a labor force that could program and maintain technology that is then put to use by low skilled workers.

China has tens of thousands of people coming to the cities from the farms every month. By making that journey, a peasant can more than double his income. AND, China has to build constantly to keep up, because they fear another Revolution. There are high rise apartments going up all over the place, and a missionary tells a story told by a translator that one man brought his goat with him, and it lives in the apartment.....

and China is now in deep financial doo-doo. There stock market is tanking faster than a brick through water. Beijing is so polluted you can't see across the street.

If the weather doesn't cooperate they may find themselves with more people than they can feed, as there are fewer and fewer farmers. The Chinese government has no idea how to stop the financial hemorrhaging.

Greece has been on the verge of bankruptcy for a 4 or 5 years, Germany is putting themselves in jeopardy by continuing to bail Greece out and by allowing million of Syrian refugees into the country, unchecked.

The United Kingdom wants out of the EU, the British Pound (£) took a significant hit yesterday because of it, Germany has also expressed a desire to drop out of the EU.

Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil are all in financial trouble.

In other words, this is a global disaster waiting to happen. I wonder who America will pick to lead the U.S. out of this BS? Does ANYONE actually think socialism is the right path at this time?

[BaldLoonie]

There are high rise apartments going up all over the place,

I read an article about how Chinese workers were committing suicide so often by jumping from these buildings that there were nets strung between the buildings (picture included) to try to stop this.

[timebuilder]

That's right...the Chinese are not used to the pressures of an industrialized society....they don't know how to manage it, and they've been manipulating their currency. They have a lot of trained people who went to American universities like Wharton and others who came back to help run the Chinese economy. However, they have grossly miscalculated the number of people that have to be fed in the cities, and they don't have the infrastructure in place to keep up with the needs of all of these people.

Like their Japanese cousins, they have a lot of stress-induced emotional issues, which the Japanese call "karoshi."

[Answer-Man]

Look we are one of the largest consumer economies and everyone is trying to sell us (USA) something. We as a whole want it cheaper and faster every day. I really do try to by American but many times that is just not possible. This has been building for decades and it is my opinion that it has gone too far for any one individual to make a dent in fixing the problem. However this is one of the things that those we elect and send to the state house and to Washington DC are supposed to be protecting for the good of the country. I am not in favor of big or bigger government and I'm afraid if this is to ever be fixed the government is going to have to be involved. I'm not saying more laws and requirement but different ones. Like: The companies that move operations from the USA to escape wages, benefits and taxes need to be told they can no longer sell their products in the USA. The EPA and OSHA laws are crushing ask anyone who has to file the compliance paperwork how much time is takes and the penalties can be huge. I'm not saying throw the all safety and environmental laws out but they need to change. The Real Fat Cat executives who draw millions of dollars in salary need to be persuaded they need to put some money back into the business not just their pockets. I'm not saying those fat cats need to be taxed and the money given to the government, because the government will find a way to waste it like giving someone a couple million to study cow farts.

Enough of the soap box, every politician I meet and asks me to support them I tell them I will vote for any person who has never been elected before because everyone of them in the state and federal legislatures are part of the problem and they should be thrown out of office for not doing what is right as they ARE part of the problem.

Good luck and hoping for best come on election day