Never said I AGREED with Friedman’s ideas or even those of Gerald Celente which I have read. I evaluate outside sources and make my decisions.

I do not believe any country has a lead in attaining the unattainable Utopia or is immune from corruption or does not stray from its original ideals. I do believe the actions that extended over a long period of time and got the U.S. to its current state of affairs may take some time to reverse towards a libertarian state of affairs.

Concerning the writings of futurists, I find it interesting to review them and keep score of accuracies, much like weather forecasters, simply because they may have an idea about things of which I do not know or have not made enough time to consider.

ps: Find Joel Garreau’s book, NINE NATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA, written approx 20+ yrs ago…quite a reflective read for today.

Then, even more insidious are those evil Chinese who study and do well in school (the nerve!). For example, blacks, who made up 11.8% of Texas, only made up 4.5% of the University of Texas even under a law allowing the upper 10% of any Texas high school guaranteed admission while Asians who make up 3.8% of Texas, got 17.9% of the University of Texas admissions:

http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/document/Fisher_v_University_of_Texas_at_Austin_631_F3d_213_5th_Cir_2011_C

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Texas

Then the dirty Chinese bastards have the nerve to manufacture low cost goods and sell them to us! And loan us money! Oh my G-d!

The Chinese are such barbarians that they are # 2 in the entire world in the number of prisoners at 1.55 million, almost twice as many as the third place nation:

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri-crime-prisoners

Only one nation leads China and guess which FREE COUNTRY that is?? At least Newt Gingrich would lower the prison population if he got a death penalty for marijuana use:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/gary-johnson-newt-gingrich-marijuana-hyprocrisy_n_1146739.html

Oh I forgot, we are FREER than China!

“My, My America Has Lots of Unemployed Engineers” begs the question of what to do now? Will job seekers and entrepreneurs have to recreate themselves every five years? Pursue ongoing educational disciplines? Relocate, globally, to maintain a continuous state of employment and income? Change is the only certainty – ADAPT ASAP or become irrelevant.

ps: Politicians cannot control the market and market forces regardless of what they say and wish you to believe.

http://mises.org/daily/5897/Currency-Wars

http://mises.org/daily/5894/From-Loose-Money-to-Fettered-People