Comments on: Jolt of reality

By: Bible Ben

Bible Ben — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:06:38 +0000

Here’s an apocalyptic view from the southern tip of Africa:

China has an intrinsically unstable, shame-based social system.
China has an unbalanced population – too many young men.
China has a need to keep growing at a crazy pace to stay in one piece.
That is not going to happen.

What is going to happen is that China is going to go unstable, and is going to fall back on the age-old stand-by:
It is going to put its young men in the army and march them over the border.

(you fill in this part of the story)

And when the radiation clouds clear…..

Lookee here! Its Jesus, arrived back for the judgement!

By: Alonso Quijano

Alonso Quijano — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:40:48 +0000

I like this idea of a Mexican standoff. If the Chinese even consider diversifying their assets away from U.S. treasuries the confidence game will be over. The U.S. will begin to lose it’s reserve currency status, other nations (Japan, Korea, Western Europe), not wanting to be the last idiot to to lose in this great American Ponzi scheme will begin to dump their U.S. holdings as well. This is the Hyper-Inflation trigger. Who wins? Well, wouldn’t it be just wonderful if America’s 11.3 trillion dollar debt were just “inflated” away?

By: tim

tim — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:13:52 +0000

If the neo-lib commies dump T bills both sides loose: aka the mexican standoff.Jeff and his mates Dick and George should realize Tom Clancy is a NOVELIST.He writes STORYS.

By: dude

dude — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:26:38 +0000

we are all doomed…..DOOOOOOMED!!!!

Even the chinese. Their unemployment rate in the urban areas is approaching 14 percent. In the countryside they are still scratching a living out of the ground like peasants a thousand years ago. The China story is very fragile. In an economic war, the Chinese die first. They are not a cohesive nation, the communist party has less respect and authority than our government, and it’s orders are routinely ignored in the periphery. I’m confident the Chinese government won’t survive a depression, but we have survived one already, and strangely enough we have the most respected currency and the senior central bank, exports are not a major part of our economy,and we are well diversified with plenty of natural resources and great infrastructure when compared to China (outside of a few major cities where there is great infrastructure, but their whole country has less railroad tracks than we had at the close of the civil war). We are doomed, but they are doomed first and will never dump treasuries or threaten us economically because our financial leaders may be evil and manipulative, but they are smart enough to know the chinese have a weak hand, and the chinese are smart enough to know they have a weak hand also

By: David

David — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:44:35 +0000

The Chinese could certainly withstand an economic war better than we can! Most of their current elites of China are only about two generations from having lived off of the land. Much of the rest of China still does! They are a Communist nation under totalitarian rule.
How many of us can survive off of the land? How many of us have EVER killed what we eat? The American people who used to pride themselves on being self-reliant, the Free and the Brave – are now the sensitive people of political correctness. We’re largely a foolish, silly people now. Soft. (present company excepted – I’m sure.)
We’re on the verge of complete financial collapse as is – we do not want economic war with China at this point I can assure you.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:56:20 +0000

ON CHINA 15 YEARS AGO THEY MOSTLY RODE BIKES. HOW MANY IN THE US HAVE A BIKE OR NO HOW TO USE ONE. CHINA WILL WEATHER THE ECONOMY. PLUS MY RELATIVES IN A HUNGARIAN TOWN IN EUROPE.WHOS INCOME IN THE TOWN OF ATTI BEY IS 600.00 DOLLARS A YEAR. THEY STILL GET THERE NEWS FOR THE DRUMMER ON THE STREET CORNER.OUR GOVERMENT JUST GAVE OUR MONEY TO WALL STREET AND THE BANKS.WE DONT HAVE TO KICK NOBODYS BUTT WE KICKED ARE OWN BUTT.

By: Bobbi Ventura

Bobbi Ventura — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:24:59 +0000

Morons, all this talk of war. BTW: China already controls Taiwan, all they have to do to make it official is hold a press conference. War is so last century.

By: zimtran

zimtran — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:52:31 +0000

Hell no ! The Chinese would win. Because there are so many of them that they could march into the ocean like ants until the there was a pile deep enough to provide a land bridge for the rest to march across all the way to Taiwan.

By: Doc

Doc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:55:14 +0000

It really amazes and saddens me that the world’s largest debtor thinks(?) that it is entitled to continue to be the bully. The arrogance!!

Why not just start printing Trillion Dollar bills?! We could pay off ALL of our debts with just a few of them. (Of course an ice cream cone would cost $825,000 at that point.)

Don’t blame it ALL on the politicians, this country has become morally bankrupt from sea to shining sea.

It’s visible in the tattoos and body piercings. It’s noticeable with the obscenity laced vocabulary and the road rage. Don’t even get me started on the TV content. These are the signs of the end of a civilization. The U.S. will be humbled as was Egypt, Byzantium, the Incas, etc.

The saddest thing of all is that we ignored the warnings and did it to ourselves.

By: wkwillis

wkwillis — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:49:38 +0000

China would lose a war with Taiwan in about three hours. You need to move an army to Taiwan across more than a hundred miles of water and more like two hundred miles, capture a beach, capture a supply airport, capture a sea port, defend at least two of these, and then move on the rest of the island.
And then spend the next year rebuilding China’s power, communications, irrigation, tap water, sewage treatment, gas, oil, railroad, and highway networks after the Taiwanese counterattack. China has very acurate knowledge of Taiwan’s capabilities in this respect and has already announced that they will go nuclear if Taiwan attacks them first.
Assuming that Taiwan doesn’t have atomic, biological, or chemical weapons, because if they do, your war is already over.
Face it, nukes and RPVs are making war suicide for the attacker. We are only surviving in Iraq because we are fighting five million peasants with no foreign support and damned little domestic support. Most of the people of Iraq just wish someone would win so that things would quiet down. Or we would have gone home with our tails between our legs long ago.