[triadtechtalk] Re: Talk about food for thought! (OTF)
- From: "Juanita Kimble" <jkimble@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:15:01 -0600
Robert wrote
Hi Armando,
Thanks for this very uplifting email. The previous one was very pessimistic.
Unfortunately, I tend to take the pessimistic view which doesn't help
anything. But our nation really solves problems.
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Robert I suppose I choose to be pessimistic also.I never thought about it as
being a choice.I guess it is though. However it is better than being in
denial.I too worry about all the money being printed.I wonder how much of it is
really backed with gold.
I too enjoy Armando's comments. He is funny sometimes too. I have never heard
the expression (it would make a monkey whistle) I got a chuckle from that.
It's things like what just happened in AZ. that bothers me. It isn't going to
get better,only worse.
Like in Mississippi alone there have been 6,700 cell phones confiscated from
prisoners since cell phone companys have unauthorized areas that they do not
let calls go through. The prisoners just get a recording. Now that is the
postive things I like to hear. The prisoners use their cell's to commit even
more crime.
How are they getting these phones. I blame the guards. Even if visitors are
bringing them in, it's the guards place to find them. Not to mention dope.
Someone must be getting paid to let it get by the guards.
http://wicker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.WeeklyColumn&ContentRecord_id=2f33729d-c9f1-a933-78ec-584230093372&Region_id=&Issue_id=
Juanita
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From: armando barreiro
To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 1:52 PM
Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re: Talk about food for thought! (OTF)
That's a very pessimistic view of the state of our nation.
It's actually the intention of the Fabian Socialists to implant
hopelessness and dissatisfaction in order to achieve their goal of destroying
free enterprise in order to create a global socialist government.
Throughout its very short history the U.S.A. has always managed to
overcome every challenge it has confronted, and it has even gone far beyond has
become an undeniable catalyst in bringing an end to wars in Europe, Asia, the
Pacific, in the entire world and in reconstruction of the very nations which
were adversely destroyed by the actions of their very own government, as is
evidenced in the Marshall Plan and in the reconstrution of Japan itself.
In the territory just south of Manchurria, we wouldn't now be having
the problems that exist if but for Truman, who deliberately stopped McArthur
from crossing the 38th parallel.
Heck, So. Korea is prosperous, while the North has the largest
standing army of the entire world, while its people die of hunger and subsist
on what the West sends them in aide.
Even the Stalinist communists abandoned their socialist forms of
economic rules due to the fact that their economies were in bankruptcy. The
largest number of millionaires now reside in Moscow and in Beijing, yet the US
Govt. sent millions to the ex-Soviets after its collapse, they feared the
exodus of nuclear arms.
Reagan defeated them without firing a single shot, all he said was
"Satr Wars", a fictional world which the mighty bear knew that the US could
very probably achieve. They folded, poker!
A new chair-person will soon be taking charge in the House of
Representatives' committee on Forign Policy. Change is soon to come, as soon as
the new Congress takes oath in 2011.
While Greece, Spain, Ireland, and the rest of the socialist states of
the EU become bankrupt and their public debt and bonds are rated as Ab and soon
to be junk, the US is still rated as AAA, despite the trillion + spent by the
last Congress, so take heart, don't allow the socialist culture of the repoting
media drag your spirits down.
Even as bad as it is painted to be by the likes of Cokie et al, the
majority of the world's population would still give anything in order to be
able to live in the good old USA. The poorest of the destitute living in our
nation are rich when compared to standard of living enjoyed by the majority of
the people in most of the other nations of the world.
"God bless America, Land that I love. Stand beside her and guide her
through..."
And those lines, my friends, are not of my design.
As far as I'm concerned, the future is challenging, but not bleak, on
the contrary, this is now a technology revolution, and at the forefront of the
technological revolution is the good U.S. of A.
The greedy politicians were put there by the ignorant majority who
voted them in, and they can vote them out.
How many ot these, retired, were called to serve by O and were found
to owe taxes. What about Rangel, for instance? Should he continue to serve? How
about the late KKK Wizard fron WV who died recently? Who voted them in?
Now they're going to vote for Rahm Emanuel for mayor in Chicago.
God bless America, my home, sweet home!
Armando
--- On Fri, 12/17/10, GASCON, VICTOR <VGASCON@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: GASCON, VICTOR <VGASCON@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re: Talk about food for thought! (OTF)
To: "'triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 1:07 PM
Juanita,
Oh, it is very true. Sadly and depressingly true. The U.S. is
heading for crisis (plural) of unimaginable proportions. I blame it all on two
groups: Congress (self-serving greedy politicians, in general) and the rest of
us (for being too busy working as many jobs as needed to maintain a standard of
living we cannot afford). At the core of most of our problems are greed and
ignorance (much of it voluntary — we rather not know than face reality).
We will wake up and come to terms with all these facts. I just
wonder if it will be in time to stop us from becoming the next Roman Empire
that collapsed out of arrogance (as many other empires have).
Merry Christmas everyone!
-= Victor =-
From: triadtechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:triadtechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Juanita Kimble
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 12:25 PM
To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [triadtechtalk] Talk about food for thought! (OTF)
I sure hope all this isn't true
Juanita
Talk about food for thought!
There is nothing political about this email..It simply
points out very probable changes that are in our future.
CHANGES ARE COMING ---- Whether these changes are good
or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they
come!
1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world
without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is
probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about
wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of
your mail every day is junk mail and bills.
2. The Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork
to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of
dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will
lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of
the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them
by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business..
3. The Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't
read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print
edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man.. As for
reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet
devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to
form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone
companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.
4. The Book. You say you will never give up the
physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the
same thing about downloading music fromiTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I
quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the
price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will
happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview
chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book.
And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the
screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait
to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead
of a book.
5. The Land Line Telephone. Unless you have a large
family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore Most people
keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges
for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call
customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes
6. Music. This is one of the saddest parts of the
change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of
illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance
to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the
problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply
self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items,"
meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established
artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this
fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for
Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the
Music Dies."
7. Television. Revenues to the networks are down
dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and
movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots
of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime
time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator.
Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30
seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies
to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch
online and through Netflix.
8. The "Things" That You Own. Many of the very
possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually
own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your
computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and
documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if
need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all
finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a
computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows,
Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an
icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it
will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the
cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your
books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good
news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to
disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives
be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull
out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull
out the insert.
9. Privacy. If there ever was a concept that we can
look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone
for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the
buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be
sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the
GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit
is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those
habits. And "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.
All we will have that can't be changed are Memories.
Nineteen Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America
That Will Blow Your Mind
The United States is rapidly becoming the very first
"post-industrial" nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually
become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have
left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely
amazing. It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from
automobiles to televisions to airplanes. It was the great American
manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.
But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of
America . Tens of thousands of factories have left the United States in the
past decade alone Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost
in the same time period. The United States has become a nation that consumes
everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little. Do you know what our
biggest export is today? Waste paper. Yes, trash is the number one thing that
we ship out to the rest of the world as we voraciously blow our money on
whatever the rest of the world wants to sell to us. The United States has
become bloated and spoiled and our economy is now just a shadow of what it once
was. Once upon a time America could literally out produce the rest of the world
combined. Today that is no longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than
anyone else in the world. If the deindustrialization of America continues at
this current pace, what possible kind of a future are we going to be leaving to
our children?
Any great nation throughout history has been great at
making things. So if the United States continues to allow its manufacturing
base to erode at a staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to
consider itself to be a great nation? We have created the biggest debt bubble
in the history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of
living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable.
Every single month America goes into more debt and every single month America
gets poorer.
So what happens when the debt bubble pops?
The deindustrialization of the United States should be
a top concern for every man, woman and child in the country. But sadly, most
Americans do not have any idea what is going on around them.
For people like that, take this article and print it
out and hand it to them. Perhaps what they will read below will shock them
badly enough to awaken them from their slumber.
The following are 19 facts about the
deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind....
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400
factories since 2001..About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500
people when they were still in operation.
#2 Dell Inc., one of America 's largest manufacturers
of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in
China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.
#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last
large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem , North Carolina in
November. Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.
#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold
worldwide. So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States ?
Zero.
#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic
Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at
its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year
alone.
#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with
China had risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.
#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5
million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.
#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008
employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an
astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S.
employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1
million.
#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of
U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.
#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure
of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul , Minnesota .
Approximately 750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because
making Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global"
manufacturing strategy.
#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million
Americans worked in manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million
Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.
#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts
for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.
#13 The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of
its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.
#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the
world in per capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.
#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer
industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of
thousands of different products. Asia now produces 84 percent of them
worldwide.
#17 The United States spends approximately $3.90 on
Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United
States .
#18 One prominent economist is projecting that the
Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year
2040.
#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million
Americans are now living in poverty and according to them that is the highest
number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.
So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need
to lose before we do something about it?
How many millions more Americans are going to become
unemployed before we all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our
hands?
How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave
the country before we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is
killing our economy?
How many once great manufacturing cities are going to
become rotting war zones like Detroit before we understand that we are
committing national economic suicide?
The deindustrialization of America is a national
crisis. It needs to be treated like one.
If you disagree with this article, I have a direct
challenge for you. If anyone can explain how a deindustrialized America has any
kind of viable economic future, please do so below in the comments section.
America is in deep, deep trouble folks. It is time to
WAKE UP.
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