I wouldn't argue with that. It's more or less saying that we're now heading to the lifestyle of the Chinese peasant - which is exactly what happens by going back to the same system that we had before the recession. Only this time we're selling ourselves to them, and they have all the money - the banks get rich playing the middleman, they don't care which country is trashed in the process.
It needs more land that is for sure. A worry for Russia one day, perhaps.
On the point of ageing populations, have you seen what ours is? And is expected to be? Also, it is customary in China for the young to live and care for their elderley, here the answer is the nursing home, which ultimately creates a massive burden upon welfare state.
The Chinese economy is still growing at 10%, which is more than a few years ago. As for China's cheap labour, that will remain for a long time to come as they still have a peasant labour force of over a billion strong, whose aspirations and expectations are from those of the West - consider that even 150 years ago we had trade union movements, China today simply doesn't have anything to compare to even back then.
There are cheaper cuts of meat yea, but they still cost more than frozen "meat" does in any supermarket, as does vegetables compared to say beans or frozen chips. The problem is the majority of people don't have access to food locally other than that which is sold at the supermarket. In theory, these people could travel further to find somewhere better value, but even then you'd have to factor in logistics and time towards the cost.
I know i'm simpliyfying the issue, you could cold delve deeper into it talk about fast food and more importantly cheap food. But then, why are things this way? There's endless scope to that question.
I appreciate it's your issue and it must get irritating when the rest of the world considers your business their own, and especially when the envious losers across the world unite in glee upon hearing your troubles. But this is an international website at the end of the day.
I agree, those are technical reasons for it not to work. My answer was in the terms of socialised healthcare, which is not in reality Obamacare at all - the real benefit of socialising healthcare is the fact that you can cut out the bureaucracy that is the insurers, which is not what Obama is doing. However, socialist healthcare like we have in the NHS over here could never work in America for cultural reasons, in my opinion.
As for the point on competition, I would argue that this is very industry specific, I would say that a doctor is a doctor for prestige, importance or out of a sense of compassion, more so than profit-motive. So from this the will to improve practice is inherent because the saving of lives ranks higher than acquisition of wealth in the minds of most doctors - the sense of "competition" comes from the task in hand(the caring for life)and not from whom competes against you.
Won't the "hot wall", when the sun isn't shining, conduct the cold through to the rest of the house? Doesn't this defeat the concept of insulating your property?
Give one example of a society that has remained in an epoch of decadence? It didn't work for Rome, Egypt, Babylon, the Han Dynasty of ancient China, the conquistadors, the British Empire and soon enough for Western consumer-Capitalism.
No, at least not yet, but the fact that we are still alive and excessively comfortable suggests that for the moment we have not had to learn. But decadent decay, such as today, has never lasted at any point in human history, we're fated for change.
There's no definitive answer to this. It completely depends upon whether or not the request made is a reasonable request. If say, I was a heavy smoker and she encouraged me to cut down I wouldn't have a problem, but if she tried to stop me buying my season ticket because she doesn't like football then I'd leave.
The reason why I don't think social healthcare works in America is because anything socialistic can only function in the context of a community. That is, for it to work you need the sense of reciprocal loyalty between individuals. America is too diverse a country for this, maybe a socialist initiative could function within one state and not the other, but it's foolish to treat America as a single entity - which is why in my opinion Obama is wrong.
As for Trump, he's just one of the dominant minority(and he was born into it), he is not part of the gifted minority. Many it would seem, don't know the difference.
I don't know if the ban defeats its purpose. Some of the more calculating Muslims want us to persecute the Muslim community in general, as this will no doubt galvanise their extremist elements.
This is what Islam(and to a lesser extent Judaism)does, by refusing to adapt to the host nation it invokes a defensive spirit amongst the natives. This is then construed as persecution, which from there is used to justify extremism/expansionism in the case of Islam and separatism in the case of Judaism.
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RE: Would you vote for Donald Trump for President?
I wouldn't argue with that. It's more or less saying that we're now heading to the lifestyle of the Chinese peasant - which is exactly what happens by going back to the same system that we had before the recession. Only this time we're selling ourselves to them, and they have all the money - the banks get rich playing the middleman, they don't care which country is trashed in the process.