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You really think the Bush family bought 12,000 acres in South America just so they can hunt once or twice a year? That land purchase must have cost some insane coin.
An investment?
Is there oil there? Natural gas? Expensive wood? Gold? Silver? Is it good grazing land (do they plan on having a ranch there?)?
There are plenty of normal, everyday reasons a wealthy family buys a chunk of land that size. It doesn't have to equate to any bazarre plan to have an out of country escape location.
You really think the Bush family bought 12,000 acres in South America just so they can hunt once or twice a year? That land purchase must have cost some insane coin.
Um. Guess you didn't know that hunting preserves are big business in Paraguay. I personally know one guy who makes a very good living flying blue-chip clients down to Paraguay 5-6 times a year. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of hunters, please.
That totally makes sense then. You'll have to excuse my cynicism. I voted for Bush twice, donated to him and thought he was going to be another Reagon. The first term in my mind went fairly well. But the second has been disappointing. Big government, open borders, forcing our troops to fight the "politically correct" way as opposed to destroying the enemy without mercy. You get the idea.
Anyways, in terms of game, what makes Paraguay so special?
What if.... the United States experienced another "Great Depression"?
While no doubt harmful in the immediate sense, a tough economic downturn might be the tonic this nation needs to turn more people's attention away from their lives of rampant consumerism. Life reduced to the basics leaves little time or resources for the luxuries most take for granted these days. While struggling for the basics is by no means pleasant, it may deepen most Americans' perspectives on life. It might prove to be the impulse to move us beyond our short-sighted, self-centered "use it all up right now" attitudes.
While no doubt harmful in the immediate sense, a tough economic downturn might be the tonic this nation needs to turn more people's attention away from their lives of rampant consumerism. Life reduced to the basics leaves little time or resources for the luxuries most take for granted these days. While struggling for the basics is by no means pleasant, it may deepen most Americans' perspectives on life. It might prove to be the impulse to move us beyond our short-sighted, self-centered "use it all up right now" attitudes.
Sounds nice, But I doubt it. We've obliterated God, Family and Morals in this country (and most other western ones). Without those pillars, we're left with throngs of bored, hungry, angry people. While I don't think it'll will be full blast like Katrina, I do think the social rot of our society will show itself much more clearly now that the veneer of success has been taken off. Think Animal Farm, Clockwork Orange and Lord of the Flies.
Another great depression, assuming it DID happen, might seriously put a real strain on the concept of "multiculturalism". I have a feeling that the idea of other folks leading lives and expressing cultures "at odds" with each other (so interesting now, when times are "flush") might be the source of serious conflict when the possibility arose that a lot of us couldn't be sure when, or how, we'd get our next meal. Some of us might get VERY cranky, and very judgemental, when it seemed to us that "other" folks weren't "conserving" things the way WE were....or were seen as "squandering" scarce resources....or weren't so much taking "some jobs", but were taking the last few jobs PERIOD. I feel that, when things "hit the fan", multiculturalism (along with ski trips, dining at ethnic restaurants, and interest in the arts) MAY be one of the 'casualties", and there would be less interest in celebrating each other's CULTURES, and more interest in just exactly where he got that sack of FOOD we saw him carrying home.....
There can never be another Great depression LOL the moment they took the currency off the gold standard they knew they could fudge the books and print money outa thin air LOL
You know what's funny is that the Bush family bought themselves a 12,000 acre ranch in Paraguay near a landing strip. Ask yourself this question, why?
Have you ever seen Asunción? It is a beautiful city and Paraguay happens to be the second most economically and socially stable country in South America (behind Chile) It is very "Euro" and contemporary, and cosmopolitan. Excellent climate, excellent quality land... its got it all.
I have been weighing my next long vacation to either Paraguay or to Chile, who knows, I may be inlined to purchase a small patch of dirt.
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What if.... the United States experienced another "Great Depression"?
