Europe, China, US, India. Is there any indication, anywhere, that we’re not headed for a worldwide depression?
Buy dried goods.
-Sigh-
Everyone I talk to who’s ever been to India usually walks away from it with descriptions of it being the most ungodly hell hole filled with dehumanizing misery and revolting level poverty and dysfunction they’ve ever seen or imagined in their lives.
One friend of mine in the oil industry said he had to leave because of the pyschological toll of living in a society that was so accepting of horrific levels of misery.
The only exception is people who go on a “spiritual journey” to some hideaway yoga retreat.
They usually describe it as “amazing”.
RE: “It’s Probably Nothing”
Kate, all your headlines are hysterical, but that’s always my favorite! 🙂
A few trillion UN climate change carbon credit dollars could really help the developing third world countries.
Canada needs to come on board and get the climate change tax ball rolling;>
Friend of mine just returned from 8 months supervisor service at an outsourced cable company in India.
He said it only takes about 4 hours to drive the 50 miles to and from work..
1.3 billion long faces, could sure ruin a group photo
My father was talking about the wonderful emerging and developing Indian economy a week ago, my response was, ‘yeah, 200 million middle-class, 900 million in dung-floored huts…’
“One official, monitoring government infrastructure projects, said that of 558 federal government projects, 241 were delayed as of end-July, resulting in a cost overrun of some 20%, or more than US$31-billion.
The projects, which include setting up airports, new railway lines, shipping ports, roads and power plants, have been delayed by more than two years on average due to issues of land acquisition, environmental clearance and rising costs.”
Sounds much like the government of the U.S,the Finance Minister their Obama.
Just goes to show, lazy bureaucrats can f- up -anything-.
“civil servants play video games in their offices “? What were they doing previously?
dmorris @ 6:31 p.m: 558 government projects? How many of these are worthwhile activities? How many deliver value for cost? That is, productivity rather than mere activity?
To paraphrase what I said with regards to Europe the other week: There’s nothing wrong with the Indian economy that can’t be fixed by ceasing to pay unproductive people from tax dollars. And by letting wages and prices find their free market level.
There are more billionaire’s in India than Canada; they also have nuclear weapons and a space agency.
We still give them millions in aid every year (same for China).
We import their goods & services with preferred trade tariffs; we import their semiskilled, semiliterate immigrants in mass and allow them to bring their aged retired parents to live on our “free” healthcare and welfare.
India is a third world crap hole that needs to be stripped of its comical and farcical commonwealth status that ridiculously binds us to it as if it was some lost Canadian province.
Europe, China, US, India. Is there any indication, anywhere, that we’re not headed for a worldwide depression?
Buy dried goods.
-Sigh-
Everyone I talk to who’s ever been to India usually walks away from it with descriptions of it being the most ungodly hell hole filled with dehumanizing misery and revolting level poverty and dysfunction they’ve ever seen or imagined in their lives.
One friend of mine in the oil industry said he had to leave because of the pyschological toll of living in a society that was so accepting of horrific levels of misery.
The only exception is people who go on a “spiritual journey” to some hideaway yoga retreat.
They usually describe it as “amazing”.
RE: “It’s Probably Nothing”
Kate, all your headlines are hysterical, but that’s always my favorite! 🙂
A few trillion UN climate change carbon credit dollars could really help the developing third world countries.
Canada needs to come on board and get the climate change tax ball rolling;>
Friend of mine just returned from 8 months supervisor service at an outsourced cable company in India.
He said it only takes about 4 hours to drive the 50 miles to and from work..
1.3 billion long faces, could sure ruin a group photo
My father was talking about the wonderful emerging and developing Indian economy a week ago, my response was, ‘yeah, 200 million middle-class, 900 million in dung-floored huts…’
“One official, monitoring government infrastructure projects, said that of 558 federal government projects, 241 were delayed as of end-July, resulting in a cost overrun of some 20%, or more than US$31-billion.
The projects, which include setting up airports, new railway lines, shipping ports, roads and power plants, have been delayed by more than two years on average due to issues of land acquisition, environmental clearance and rising costs.”
Sounds much like the government of the U.S,the Finance Minister their Obama.
Just goes to show, lazy bureaucrats can f- up -anything-.
China is also starting to fray along the edges :
http://www.businessweek.com/finance/occupy-wall-street/archives/2011/12/chinas_wealth_disparity_erupts_in_wukan_protests.html
I’m glad I live in Canada.
“civil servants play video games in their offices “? What were they doing previously?
dmorris @ 6:31 p.m: 558 government projects? How many of these are worthwhile activities? How many deliver value for cost? That is, productivity rather than mere activity?
To paraphrase what I said with regards to Europe the other week: There’s nothing wrong with the Indian economy that can’t be fixed by ceasing to pay unproductive people from tax dollars. And by letting wages and prices find their free market level.
There are more billionaire’s in India than Canada; they also have nuclear weapons and a space agency.
We still give them millions in aid every year (same for China).
We import their goods & services with preferred trade tariffs; we import their semiskilled, semiliterate immigrants in mass and allow them to bring their aged retired parents to live on our “free” healthcare and welfare.
India is a third world crap hole that needs to be stripped of its comical and farcical commonwealth status that ridiculously binds us to it as if it was some lost Canadian province.
Brown crap hole. nuff said.