PIIGS R’ us?

[briansd1]

[quote=Arraya]
Doing business with brutal regimes is not something we are shy about. They only become “evil” if they somehow inhibit or threaten capital accumulation of the upper echelons. If they aid in capital accumulation, it’s not a problem. That is the litmus test, not any professed ideology. There is a systemic contradiction today, where the upper .1% of the US interests are more aligned with the average Chinese than the average american. ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT.[/quote]

I believe it’s a little different.

The key is the turnover of capital.

Thanks to relative peace around the world, there’s actually a glut of capital. Central banks around the world have made sure that their companies don’t lack capital.

America used to be the repository of capital but that’s much less so now. Chinese, Indian, Brazilian companies have the capital to expand and their governments have industrial policies to create corporate champions. The Europeans all have industrial policies.

In America, we lack an industrial policy because we waste time arguing over ideology rather than do what’s good for us.

The auto bailouts for sure were good for America and saved American jobs.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=temeculaguy]Eavesdropper, I recently put in about 1500 sq ft of wood flooring by myself. It ended up being easier and more fulfilling than I had imagined. Bribe your husband with sexual favors, use your imagination, think of things well beyond his imagination. This is not a typical TG joke, men are simple, spell out the reward schedule and the impossible becomes simple. Women often fail to see how simple we are, he can thank me later.[/quote]

TG, I’d sooner put the flooring in myself, and would if I had more time these days. I love him somethin’ awful, but home improvement projects are not his thing. You cannot believe how badly he can screw things up.

But I’m curious: how long did it take you? And do you mind me asking what product you ended up using?

BTW, I’m one of the lucky ones: I was my husband’s high school crush, one upon which he never acted (probably because he knew I’d deck him…) At any rate, we met again many years later. We’ve been together 12 years now, and (without going into graphic detail) it’s still great! He says that marrying the girl that you fantasized about from the time you were 15 is a total aphrodisiac. All I know is that I can be 15 pounds overweight, have 1 inch of gray roots in my hair, puffy eyes from pulling an all-nighter, and no makeup, and all he’s seeing is the girl I was back in the 70s. It’s pretty cool.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=temeculaguy]Eavesdropper, I recently put in about 1500 sq ft of wood flooring by myself. It ended up being easier and more fulfilling than I had imagined. Bribe your husband with sexual favors, use your imagination, think of things well beyond his imagination. This is not a typical TG joke, men are simple, spell out the reward schedule and the impossible becomes simple. Women often fail to see how simple we are, he can thank me later.[/quote]

TG, I’d sooner put the flooring in myself, and would if I had more time these days. I love him somethin’ awful, but home improvement projects are not his thing. You cannot believe how badly he can screw things up.

But I’m curious: how long did it take you? And do you mind me asking what product you ended up using?

BTW, I’m one of the lucky ones: I was my husband’s high school crush, one upon which he never acted (probably because he knew I’d deck him…) At any rate, we met again many years later. We’ve been together 12 years now, and (without going into graphic detail) it’s still great! He says that marrying the girl that you fantasized about from the time you were 15 is a total aphrodisiac. All I know is that I can be 15 pounds overweight, have 1 inch of gray roots in my hair, puffy eyes from pulling an all-nighter, and no makeup, and all he’s seeing is the girl I was back in the 70s. It’s pretty cool.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=temeculaguy]Eavesdropper, I recently put in about 1500 sq ft of wood flooring by myself. It ended up being easier and more fulfilling than I had imagined. Bribe your husband with sexual favors, use your imagination, think of things well beyond his imagination. This is not a typical TG joke, men are simple, spell out the reward schedule and the impossible becomes simple. Women often fail to see how simple we are, he can thank me later.[/quote]

TG, I’d sooner put the flooring in myself, and would if I had more time these days. I love him somethin’ awful, but home improvement projects are not his thing. You cannot believe how badly he can screw things up.

But I’m curious: how long did it take you? And do you mind me asking what product you ended up using?

BTW, I’m one of the lucky ones: I was my husband’s high school crush, one upon which he never acted (probably because he knew I’d deck him…) At any rate, we met again many years later. We’ve been together 12 years now, and (without going into graphic detail) it’s still great! He says that marrying the girl that you fantasized about from the time you were 15 is a total aphrodisiac. All I know is that I can be 15 pounds overweight, have 1 inch of gray roots in my hair, puffy eyes from pulling an all-nighter, and no makeup, and all he’s seeing is the girl I was back in the 70s. It’s pretty cool.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=temeculaguy]Eavesdropper, I recently put in about 1500 sq ft of wood flooring by myself. It ended up being easier and more fulfilling than I had imagined. Bribe your husband with sexual favors, use your imagination, think of things well beyond his imagination. This is not a typical TG joke, men are simple, spell out the reward schedule and the impossible becomes simple. Women often fail to see how simple we are, he can thank me later.[/quote]

TG, I’d sooner put the flooring in myself, and would if I had more time these days. I love him somethin’ awful, but home improvement projects are not his thing. You cannot believe how badly he can screw things up.

But I’m curious: how long did it take you? And do you mind me asking what product you ended up using?

BTW, I’m one of the lucky ones: I was my husband’s high school crush, one upon which he never acted (probably because he knew I’d deck him…) At any rate, we met again many years later. We’ve been together 12 years now, and (without going into graphic detail) it’s still great! He says that marrying the girl that you fantasized about from the time you were 15 is a total aphrodisiac. All I know is that I can be 15 pounds overweight, have 1 inch of gray roots in my hair, puffy eyes from pulling an all-nighter, and no makeup, and all he’s seeing is the girl I was back in the 70s. It’s pretty cool.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=temeculaguy]Eavesdropper, I recently put in about 1500 sq ft of wood flooring by myself. It ended up being easier and more fulfilling than I had imagined. Bribe your husband with sexual favors, use your imagination, think of things well beyond his imagination. This is not a typical TG joke, men are simple, spell out the reward schedule and the impossible becomes simple. Women often fail to see how simple we are, he can thank me later.[/quote]

TG, I’d sooner put the flooring in myself, and would if I had more time these days. I love him somethin’ awful, but home improvement projects are not his thing. You cannot believe how badly he can screw things up.

But I’m curious: how long did it take you? And do you mind me asking what product you ended up using?

BTW, I’m one of the lucky ones: I was my husband’s high school crush, one upon which he never acted (probably because he knew I’d deck him…) At any rate, we met again many years later. We’ve been together 12 years now, and (without going into graphic detail) it’s still great! He says that marrying the girl that you fantasized about from the time you were 15 is a total aphrodisiac. All I know is that I can be 15 pounds overweight, have 1 inch of gray roots in my hair, puffy eyes from pulling an all-nighter, and no makeup, and all he’s seeing is the girl I was back in the 70s. It’s pretty cool.

[Arraya]

[quote=briansd1]

The key is the turnover of capital.
[/quote]

You are correct. Excellent point. The systemic necessity which drove the upper percentile’s interest alignment away from the bottom half of the US, was the process of capital reproduction.

[quote=briansd1]
In America, we lack an industrial policy because we waste time arguing over ideology rather than do what’s good for us.
[/quote]

Policies implemented over the past few decades have been tremendously successful. We got what our policy makers intended. It ain’t a conspiracy, it’s econ 101

[quote=briansd1]
The auto bailouts for sure were good for America and saved American jobs.[/quote]

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away

[Arraya]

[quote=briansd1]

The key is the turnover of capital.
[/quote]

You are correct. Excellent point. The systemic necessity which drove the upper percentile’s interest alignment away from the bottom half of the US, was the process of capital reproduction.

[quote=briansd1]
In America, we lack an industrial policy because we waste time arguing over ideology rather than do what’s good for us.
[/quote]

Policies implemented over the past few decades have been tremendously successful. We got what our policy makers intended. It ain’t a conspiracy, it’s econ 101

[quote=briansd1]
The auto bailouts for sure were good for America and saved American jobs.[/quote]

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away

[Arraya]

[quote=briansd1]

The key is the turnover of capital.
[/quote]

You are correct. Excellent point. The systemic necessity which drove the upper percentile’s interest alignment away from the bottom half of the US, was the process of capital reproduction.

[quote=briansd1]
In America, we lack an industrial policy because we waste time arguing over ideology rather than do what’s good for us.
[/quote]

Policies implemented over the past few decades have been tremendously successful. We got what our policy makers intended. It ain’t a conspiracy, it’s econ 101

[quote=briansd1]
The auto bailouts for sure were good for America and saved American jobs.[/quote]

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away

[Arraya]

[quote=briansd1]

The key is the turnover of capital.
[/quote]

You are correct. Excellent point. The systemic necessity which drove the upper percentile’s interest alignment away from the bottom half of the US, was the process of capital reproduction.

[quote=briansd1]
In America, we lack an industrial policy because we waste time arguing over ideology rather than do what’s good for us.
[/quote]

Policies implemented over the past few decades have been tremendously successful. We got what our policy makers intended. It ain’t a conspiracy, it’s econ 101

[quote=briansd1]
The auto bailouts for sure were good for America and saved American jobs.[/quote]

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away

[Arraya]

[quote=briansd1]

The key is the turnover of capital.
[/quote]

You are correct. Excellent point. The systemic necessity which drove the upper percentile’s interest alignment away from the bottom half of the US, was the process of capital reproduction.

[quote=briansd1]
In America, we lack an industrial policy because we waste time arguing over ideology rather than do what’s good for us.
[/quote]

Policies implemented over the past few decades have been tremendously successful. We got what our policy makers intended. It ain’t a conspiracy, it’s econ 101

[quote=briansd1]
The auto bailouts for sure were good for America and saved American jobs.[/quote]

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away

[bearishgurl]

[quote=eavesdropper] . . . BTW, I’m one of the lucky ones: I was my husband’s high school crush, one upon which he never acted (probably because he knew I’d deck him…) At any rate, we met again many years later. We’ve been together 12 years now, and (without going into graphic detail) it’s still great! He says that marrying the girl that you fantasized about from the time you were 15 is a total aphrodisiac. All I know is that I can be 15 pounds overweight, have 1 inch of gray roots in my hair, puffy eyes from pulling an all-nighter, and no makeup, and all he’s seeing is the girl I was back in the 70s. It’s pretty cool.[/quote]

Eaves, floors aside, your story is inspiring … and more common than most folks would believe, esp among “boomers” :=D

[bearishgurl]

[quote=eavesdropper] . . . BTW, I’m one of the lucky ones: I was my husband’s high school crush, one upon which he never acted (probably because he knew I’d deck him…) At any rate, we met again many years later. We’ve been together 12 years now, and (without going into graphic detail) it’s still great! He says that marrying the girl that you fantasized about from the time you were 15 is a total aphrodisiac. All I know is that I can be 15 pounds overweight, have 1 inch of gray roots in my hair, puffy eyes from pulling an all-nighter, and no makeup, and all he’s seeing is the girl I was back in the 70s. It’s pretty cool.[/quote]

Eaves, floors aside, your story is inspiring … and more common than most folks would believe, esp among “boomers” :=D

[bearishgurl]

[quote=eavesdropper] . . . BTW, I’m one of the lucky ones: I was my husband’s high school crush, one upon which he never acted (probably because he knew I’d deck him…) At any rate, we met again many years later. We’ve been together 12 years now, and (without going into graphic detail) it’s still great! He says that marrying the girl that you fantasized about from the time you were 15 is a total aphrodisiac. All I know is that I can be 15 pounds overweight, have 1 inch of gray roots in my hair, puffy eyes from pulling an all-nighter, and no makeup, and all he’s seeing is the girl I was back in the 70s. It’s pretty cool.[/quote]

Eaves, floors aside, your story is inspiring … and more common than most folks would believe, esp among “boomers” :=D

[bearishgurl]

[quote=eavesdropper] . . . BTW, I’m one of the lucky ones: I was my husband’s high school crush, one upon which he never acted (probably because he knew I’d deck him…) At any rate, we met again many years later. We’ve been together 12 years now, and (without going into graphic detail) it’s still great! He says that marrying the girl that you fantasized about from the time you were 15 is a total aphrodisiac. All I know is that I can be 15 pounds overweight, have 1 inch of gray roots in my hair, puffy eyes from pulling an all-nighter, and no makeup, and all he’s seeing is the girl I was back in the 70s. It’s pretty cool.[/quote]

Eaves, floors aside, your story is inspiring … and more common than most folks would believe, esp among “boomers” :=D

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