Interesting perspective! Who knows, it might even lead to the fall of
the so-called 2-party system which may ultimately be replaced by a
multi-party system.
On Jan 1, 2013, at 1:39 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
What I find surprising is that no one (publicly) seems to be calling
out the US in their continuing attempt to impose a more or less
completely dysfunctional (and non-functioning) governmental system
on to various parts of the world and elements of the world
governance system e.g. the recent WCIT/ITU events.
I think what we are seeing being played out is that the US is
essentially ungovernable… I think the Internet has a lot to do with
it, by allowing for the broad mobilization of extreme groups
particularly on the right who would otherwise lack the means or
sophistication to organize as a "mass" movement and find methods of
using their specific resources (fanaticism and singlemindedness) to
combine with those with vast financial resources to create on-going
mischief. Pre-Internet the degrees of separation between
individuals, groupuscles, social strata, domains of influence were
physically/socially too difficult to bridge especially among
individuals/groups that are in their essence paranoid. Now these
"distances" are trivial and I think we are seeing the result.
M
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I think the US will know its reached the limit when foreigners stop
buying its bonds and furthermore when foreigners stop accepting
contracts in US denominated payouts. At this point the US will
cease to occupy its pre eminent position.
Arthur
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] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell
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Subject: [Futurework] Debt limit
What do you think?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/31/debt-limit-reached_n_2390166.html
REH
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