Stagflation? - No, We're Actually Moving BACKWARDS!
Re: Stagflation? - No, We're Actually Moving BACKWARDS!
Charging a fee for a service provided is not an innovation.
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
Re: Stagflation? - No, We're Actually Moving BACKWARDS!
Where is Milo Minderbinder when we need him?
And like I said "Moral hazard".
No one will pay for a service which they think you will provide anyway. Because they have benefitted from the Pax Americana for 60+ years without contributing or sacrificing anything much themselves they pretend it would have all been the same if we had not provided it. Ungrateful in addition to being cowards. In any case if we stop being responsible for them then we can sell arms to all of their neighbors without any constraints at all. And we make the best of everything in the weapons dept. So they either pony up and buy weapons just as good as the ones we sold to their enemies (at our prices) or become victims. Or they can start paying what they owed all along. Its all good.
The Pilipines (95M), Indonesia (245M), could overrun Aus in a few days with our weapons. The Japanese expansionist genie (128M) was only put back in the bottle and stoppered because of us. I'll bet they'd like to come out and play again. They were VERY good at wars of aggression! The largest expansion with the smallest force.
The Chinese didn't really want to stop with Tibet; they would already have S. Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam w/o our meddling.
yrs,
rubato
And like I said "Moral hazard".
No one will pay for a service which they think you will provide anyway. Because they have benefitted from the Pax Americana for 60+ years without contributing or sacrificing anything much themselves they pretend it would have all been the same if we had not provided it. Ungrateful in addition to being cowards. In any case if we stop being responsible for them then we can sell arms to all of their neighbors without any constraints at all. And we make the best of everything in the weapons dept. So they either pony up and buy weapons just as good as the ones we sold to their enemies (at our prices) or become victims. Or they can start paying what they owed all along. Its all good.
The Pilipines (95M), Indonesia (245M), could overrun Aus in a few days with our weapons. The Japanese expansionist genie (128M) was only put back in the bottle and stoppered because of us. I'll bet they'd like to come out and play again. They were VERY good at wars of aggression! The largest expansion with the smallest force.
The Chinese didn't really want to stop with Tibet; they would already have S. Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam w/o our meddling.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Stagflation? - No, We're Actually Moving BACKWARDS!
Neither is extortion...Andrew D wrote:Charging a fee for a service provided is not an innovation.
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
Re: Stagflation? - No, We're Actually Moving BACKWARDS!
Quite right.Neither is extortion...
Protection rackets have been around for centuries....
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Re: Stagflation? - No, We're Actually Moving BACKWARDS!
makin' offers they can't refuse?
Re: Stagflation? - No, We're Actually Moving BACKWARDS!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”