Would you lower your quality of life in order to raise someone else's?

[Deja Q]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1609043,001302080000.htm

India is well on the road to becoming an economic superpower and may emerge to equal China as the focus of the world's attention, a panel of analysts said at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos.

"Sustained economic growth rates, rising exports and imports and improvement in the quality of life have put India on the way to being a world force," James F Hoge, the editor of Foreign Affairs magazine said on Wednesday.

He said India might soon have double-digit growth rates.

Aart J de Geus, chairman and CEO of the US's Synopsis, said he believed that India and China would have huge future markets and an enormous impact on the West.

If overpopulation isn't a concern now, it's going to be very soon. And the last time I looked up India's population... Never mind increasing energy requirements and the world is already at crisis point now.

Still, by attempting to dismantle America into a dilapidated cesspool, the likes of which Iraq has become accustomed to, the energy problem won't be an issue for much longer. :eyes: Even better, it'll be India and China nuking each other raw when squabbling for that juicy oil; that Saudi Brown Tea. (ain't nothin' Texas or Black about that tea... not anymore. Not when our refineries aren't being rebuilt, despite record profits being posted by American oil companies. Refineries made in areas that past their peak in the early 1970s, according to many... (Google had a link to the the no-rebuild revelation yesterday. The link had vanished since then. I wonder why...))

Of course, I keep hearing people say that offshoring is slowing and stopping; jobs coming back because of the "cultural divide" or whatever ersatz excuse. Seems the contrary is the truth; and even schools are teaching Chinese to first graders, because of China's status over ours... :wtf: Thank you corporate america, for eroding the United States of America. :sarcasm:

Is America about to be tossed on the proverbial highway like an empty beer can or cigarette butt? Seems that way. Even the freepers must agree that America is in SERIOUS trouble, due to the exponential increase in BRAIN DRAIN.

And, no, we cannot compete with the *cough* "world economy". Yet while our wages are being reduced, the cost of necessities are NOT dropping to match. If, for example, medical supplies match the cost of living overseas, why do they keep RISING over here?

I hope all this is mere tinfoilhat fodder. I do tend to get needlessly imaginative and tangential. But observing people at the store yesterday, Americans are still a good people, despite nintendo. (which is the real problem with our youth... 80s excess revisited... just for different sorts of goods...)

[Mr.Green93]

1. The 'USA' was founded on Deceit, Death and Destruction

its Karma debt will soon have to be paid.

[Deja Q]

3. I think that's where Peak Oil comes in...

[redwitch]

2. Been doing it for awhile actually.

Oil execs and other corporate entities have been lowering my standard of living and raising theirs- without even consulting me, imagine that!

[Skidmore]

4. I thought I was doing that already!!!

[NJCher]

5. student's thinking

At the start of the semester, I have students do introductions. I had a student tell why he was going into the healthcare field. He said that and two other professions were ones that couldn't be outsourced. Yes, he's aware that Indians are reading charts of patients over the Internet but says there are still many healthcare jobs that can't be outsourced.

He cited two other fields that he thought couldn't be outsourced: one was teaching and the other was any service that had to be performed on site, such as lawn care.

This student is an immigrant from Nigeria and currently works in the Department of Homeland Security.

Interesting, don't you think? I tip my hat to him because he's obviously very aware of how tenuous our economic livelihood is here in the states.




Cher

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Considering the money spent on "defense" we're already contributing.

Raising the standard of living for the military, Haliburton, Boeing, Lockheed, and the rest of the "Masters of War".

[entanglement]

7. Don't mean to be offensive, but you're obsessed to the

point of monomania about this subject, every post of yours is related to it in some way!
I'm no expert, but such fixation seems unhealthy and harmful to me