GOP Failure Watch Part II

but you know for having said what he said, he is now regarded as a pinko so whatever he says does not count....

 

Anyone who is deluded into thinking we can draw any long-term conclusions from China's economic boom needs to come back to me in twenty or thirty years when their population has stopped moving to the cities. How many people are losing sleep over the Japanese economic behemoth?

Not to mention that China has several ethnic, regional minorities that, as soon as China stops being able to produce 8% growth each year, will become discontent. Just like they did in 1911, and 1644, and 1398, and the end of each Imperial Dynasty going back to the Ch'in. There's a very long-term trend of China expanding and then contracting; when things get bad in the Imperial City, Beijing retreats and rethinks how it will control the Outer Provinces.

But we'll assume there are other places where networks are improving over markets. Well, we do have a plethora of MNCs, and the growth of IOs. Are they strong enough to outlast a return to tariffs and isolationism? I don't know. It would seem to me that states still have tremendous power over MNCs and IOs, and that lobbying will only go so far.

Again, I cannot stress that one of the larger points being ignored completely is that the US economy is transitioning (and accelerating said transition) from an industrial to a post-industrial economy. People trying to read much into that are the same morons calling for Communism to ease the transition from agriculturalism into industrialism. Democracy and liberalism withstood that, most definitely more dramatic change; it will survive this one as well. We don't need bureaucratic autocracy to do it.

 

Er... and what are 'networks' again?

 

As I understand it, there are both vertical and horizontal networks...vertical networks are much like business hierarchies and tend to - on the surface - promote 'efficiency' and 'results.' Horizontal hierarchies are where all the Deputy Foreign Ministers/Secretaries get together in Prague to share information and expertise so that everyone can go home and better serve their countries. If Jitty is referring to other types of bureaucratic networks, then my earlier post is a well-thought out pile of shit.

 

Dictatorships rarely feel such constraints.

 

China doesn't need to constrain itself by ideology because things are improving at a dramatic pace for them. Think about it; the US' best record of bipartisanship came between 1945-1975, when we were experiencing the best thirty years in terms of quality of life, economic growth, and world dominance that has EVER occurred in the history of man. But now, our competitive edge has been narrowed, and we've returned to the pettiness that dominated politics beforehand - remember the fight between Wilson and Lodge over the Versailles Treaty? Boehner and McConnell essentially played that playbook against Obama. How about the Democratic filibusters over industrial policy in the 1870s-1890s? Things weren't always as rosy as you remember it. Much of the Western world is the same; bipartisanship and results occurred when economic growth was broad-based and thorough; when it slowed down, you got Thatcher politics.

When China inevitably slows down (they can't make new metropolises forever. Metropoli? Metropolitan areas?), they will discover the same problems hidden under their political surface that were there before - like their genius decision to starve the population in the 1950s. And it's not like China has a tremendous accomplishment as a bureaucracy. The tainted milk scandal, school collapse, earthquake, Yellow River poisoning, etc...in several cases, they executed your so-called expert bureaucrats for complete incompetence. When the CPC executes one of its own leaders, you're pretty sure there's a problem there. So I'm telling you; none of the 'solutions' you can find from Chinese politics are real. They will disappear with the first recession.

 

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Actually, "Metropoli" would be incorrect. The suffix "-i" is a plural form of the Latin suffix "-us". Metropolis is a Greek derivative, and ends with "-is", not "-us".

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVy4BrxpKGQ"]Life of Brian Latin Lesson - YouTube[/ame]

Second time this week I've posted that link

 

tl;dw

 

boy, the attention spans of kids these days is just getting look at that bee! did you see the size of that thing?

 

Talk to the blokes at OED. "Metropoli" has been used since the 19th century.

 

Yeah but that's not nearly mmm donut.

 

Ooh, it's an old fashioned 'latin-off'

 

I found this rather amusing.

 

Having this person seriously in the primary race is a major GOP fail

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011...e_earthquake_natural_disasters_were_mess.html

 

She left out the Texas drought. Interesting how no one is holding that up as an example of God punishing failed policies.

 

Kind of like when Jesus lets the other team win...the guy who hit the winning home-run is obviously more liked by Jesus than the pitcher who threw the ball

 

I believe she has missed God's point-- it would have to do with Matthew 22:21.

I'm gonna form a church and picket funerals, explaining how God is punishing those who don't hate low taxes...

 

Hey D00D they do that already.

I bet you ten to one that BigSoccer doesn't let that URL work...and they shouldn't either.

 

how can anyone hate low taxes?

 

Or his prayers are on high-speed connection to God while the pitcher is on dial-up.