Chinese investments in CA may surge to $60 Billion by 2020

[Senno]

Originally Posted by bigdumbgod

They really need to control their rrhoid.

There it is - convince the masses that Dear Sweet All-Knowing Loving Leader drinks apple cider vinegar, and so must they.

Speaking of which we just deployed B-2's to South Korea. This is getting a little bit hairy when we deploy bombers capable of carrying nuclear weaponry.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Senno

Speaking of which we just deployed B-2's to South Korea. This is getting a little bit hairy when we deploy bombers capable of carrying nuclear weaponry.

Nuclear weapons are and have been deployed all around the world since the late 50's. This is garden variety sabre rattling. Nothing new. Just flashing in public. I prefer boobs.

[Senno]

Well, I much prefer boobs also. But the B-2 is a pretty big saber rattle. Maybe a saber in both hands rattling.

Different than just a carrier steaming around kinda, cause those suckers strike in the dead of night and semi-invisibly.

[Ruth4Truth]

Well, given that it's heavy industry that's keeping the US economy afloat to some extent, we shouldn't be surprised that the military-industrial complex is part of that, and has to come up with reasons to justify itself.

[mateo45]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

I don't see what's particularly "socialist" about giving labor a voice in the boardroom. Especially if mgmt shares the pain. That sounds pretty fair. It's not like the USSR, where there were unions, but they were fake. THAT's socialism!


The one problem with that system, where kids who don't do well in school get shunted off to trade schools, is that kids can feel doomed to a life as a cog in a factory, just because they couldn't make the grade in school. I met a guy who got a reprieve from that life sentence, because his mother (in Italy) was Romanian, so he was able to get in on a program the Romanian gov't had for expats who needed a college education. This guy was so happy to have an escape from a lifetime of menial labor, it really made an impression. I've seen bright Native American youth in schools in the US be guided into lower tracks in the schools, rather than college-prep classes, just because they were Native.

So there are pluses but also minuses to a system like that.

The German idea of ''trade schools'' is a far cry from ours. For example when I first started learning to do metal sculpture, I had the good fortune to be mentored by a German artist who had originally started out being trained as an expert machinist in German ''trade schools''. Before he eventually got into the arts, this guy already had over a dozen years technical training in everything from welding to CAD-CAM design to metallurgy! Besides, who do you think is responsible for making and assembling all that world-class German engineering? And it's gotta be lots more useful than having an overabundance of jobless MBA's and Poli-Sci Majors!!

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by mateo45

The German idea of ''trade schools'' is a far cry from ours. For example when I first started learning to do metal sculpture, I had the good fortune to be mentored by a German artist who had originally started out being trained as an expert machinist in German ''trade schools''. Before he eventually got into the arts, this guy already had over a dozen years technical training in everything from welding to CAD-CAM design to metallurgy! Besides, who do you think is responsible for making and assembling all that world-class German engineering? And it's gotta be lots more useful than having an overabundance of jobless MBA's and Poli-Sci Majors!!

It is quite helpful for the college grad, once presented with the coveted piece of paper stating great accomplishment, that said student actually knows how to do something, in addition to knowing how to wax philosophical about many things. Germans seem to have a grasp of this. Scheize!