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Subject: [Leica] working & earning & lifetsyle
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 16:48:49 -0400

Nothing wrong with that. Its why China's GDP is growing too. I'm
constantly amazed that Americans are as stupid as we are about economics.
We've let ourselves be convinced by idiot politicians and greedy
businessmen that a country can stay rich without actually making anything.
Well, we make very little now, and we're falling into poverty, while
Germany is still prosperous and China is becoming prosperous. What do
Germany and China do? They MAKE THINGS. They don't just push paper.

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On 5/19/12 4:28 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier at usjet.net> wrote:

>Yes, their GDP is growing because they are selling all their products to
>the other euro countries.
>
>
>On May 19, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Robert Meier wrote:
>
>> Did you mean a 'tectonic shift'?
>> 
>> On May 19, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>> 
>>> As someone who grew up in the government projects in Hong Kong, then
>>>"made
>>> it" and bought a house in Palo Alto, but now hit with the financial
>>> fallout, plus having one kid in college and one kid entering college
>>>in a
>>> year or so, I can fully understand Philip and Chris' plight. Did I
>>>work my
>>> arse off to get to where I was? Yes. Do I see the same problems that
>>>they
>>> allude to? Yes.
>>> 
>>> What I see is a system increasingly deck against the Little Guys, but
>>>my
>>> rant is only suitable for the Forum. Yes, the opportunities are still
>>>out
>>> there - for my children's sake, I sure hope that it is true. But one
>>>should
>>> not think that the situation is the same as even 5 years ago. Times
>>>have
>>> changed. A nothing 3 bedroom house in Vancouver can fetch over 1.3
>>>million
>>> dollars, mostly because of all the rich money from China. How would you
>>> like to be growing up in Vancouver and then knowing that there is no
>>>way
>>> you can stay there? Same thing is happening in the Silicon Valley (and
>>>have
>>> been happening since I moved here ~20 years ago). We are seeing a
>>>Teutonic
>>> shift, just that it's not affecting people in "other countries," but
>>>right
>>> here in USA, and not limited to a particular race or geographic
>>>regions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>>> 
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