Failed States
by Paul Hall, 09/09/03
Rebuilding the infrastructure of a nation outside the United States will inevitably be far more beneficial than the building of infrastructure within it.
After rebuilding Japan under the wise leadership the McArthur the US dollar was rescued numerous times by that country.
The rebuilding of Germany helped to stabilize the world economy.
Without customers American industry will fail to reach the stature necessary to maintain the US as a global economy.
As for the rebuilding costs for Iraq? Are you kidding? Do you think eighty-seven billion dollars is a
staggering amount of money? If you do, you need to put on the dunce cap and sit in the corner with the rest of the retards and return to your pre-colonial era concept of economics.
Eighty-Seven billion dollars to the US is like, or rather should be like (if the
economy was functioning properly) a spare ten dollars in a businessman's wallet used to pay a tip at a medium class restaurant for an afternoon's lunch with
friends. As one economist pointed out, a small fleet of jumbo jets would
cost just as much.
The United States is a stuffed-up, antiquated economic engine going nowhere fast, but capable of so much more than it's now doing. It's an underachiever. A
flunkie. The only reason why it's doing as well as it is and that it's a so-called world leader is not because of any greatness, but because all the rest of the world,
at least for now, shares the same dismal defeatist mentality. Also, because of it's vast stretches of
arable land, but even that is put to dismal use. You see, that's the problem with
arrogance and presumptiveness.
The wealth in the hands of the government at this time shouldn't be counted in billions or even trillions but in gigatrillions. At least
something like one hundred gig trillion. That would evaporate the idiotic national debt these
ignoramuses are cringing about. What's all this about the home of the brave. That doesn't seem so brave to me. Put your money where your mouth is.
I've traveled this nation, logging over fifty thousand miles of travel in this country alone. Antiquated air services, almost
nonexistent rail assets, super highways going nowhere practically, only a few internationally viable ports, no useful
hydrofoil systems, no overland hovercraft freight. Talk about losers.
So someone finally decides to get out there and rebuild a couple of countries. So big deal.
The United States should be the rebuilding of at least 70
more at 150 billion dollars each. That should be a pittance; a tiny
fraction of the total budget; a mere trifle -- and would have been if past
wealth had been properly invested. Too many think a balanced budget is to
keep money idle. Well, you know something? Money is an
illusion. It's only worth what the people are willing to believe it's
worth. If you don't use it, sooner or later you'll be a loser. Not
someone who tried and lost by trying, but someone who never tries at
all.
But that's the problem with the rich. They usually get that way because they're so tight. OK be that way. Go ahead and fail. It's almost painful listening to the news if it weren't for the fact that that's not the real news, only the spectacular stuff to distract the public from the real news.
In reality, the tactic employed is to do nothing. Balance the budget and
give up. That's your real news in one word: "laziness". I'm ashamed of you. Go back to the doghouse and be an economic failure along with all the rest of the dinosaurs of history. You will be
forgotten.
Or are you going to quit your whining and start doing the work needed to succeed? This country is supposed to be a world leader, so it's in the business of rebuilding failed states. You've heard of New Jersey and New York and New This and New That, well you are New Rome and you better get
busy with the latest Pax Romanis or the repetition of history will bring the barbarians down upon you and you'll fall like all the others.
Start building new cities in the interior. Interconnect them with roads, rail, and air services. Build a canal system. Subsidize
entrepreneurs. Decentralize old cities. Give public lands to family farmers until the population is 25 per cent agricultural. Give grants of over one hundred thousand a pop to small business start ups.
If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. You who talk about a balanced budget, and stop spending, where did you get your education? The present deficit in the United States,
as high as it seems, should not even be a problem. The country should be
able to pay that back in a month. If the US were functioning as it could
be, that whole deficit, the present amount, would be less than one percent of it's available black ink spending money.
Go back to your state and teach your people how to elect a real politician that can do the hard work of
compromise, progress, and prosperity. The same with business: get the dinosaurs out of there and put in
CEOs that know how to
capitalize on the human resources in their corporations instead of laying them off.
Anybody that gets rid of perfectly good people doesn't know his job. Oh,
you mean you save another five percent by using somebody cheaper in some
developing nation? Whoops, there goes another tax-payer. Or five or
ten thousand at a time, with their little pink slips and no taxable income.
I'll tell you people, some day and maybe soon, some country is going to get it and catch on and leave you in the dust wondering what hit you. And no flag-waving sunshine patriot is going to
cliché their way out of that one. Then they're going to turn around and come by and
forcefully rebuild the greatest underachieving failing state: YOU.S.A.
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Rebuilding the infrastructure of a nation outside the United States will inevitably be far more beneficial than the building of infrastructure within it.
Copyright © 2003 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
The nation which trades with failing
nations without re-building them will soon end up inside the tiger. -- And
we all know about that one.
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