Turnips,Wars, Recessions And Lost Industry.

Have you ever heard of my Turnip Truck Theory? Well I won't go into it, but you'll get the idea in a minute. Take a look around. In Iraq, they still don't have a government after I don't know how long. In Afghanistan we have to deal with the Taliban to get anywhere, while hoping that the corrupt regime there won't just sell out for the money. In Pakistan, the government is still supporting Al Qaida and the Taliban. Meantime we're sending our military there at great cost in human lives and our treasure. Isreal still can't get along with it's neighbors. Here at home we're still in a severe recession in spite of our government assuring us we're out of it. There's a greater disparity between the rich and the poor then at any time since records have been kept and the gulf is getting bigger. We have so many kooks running for national office that even if you took off your socks you still wouldn't be able to count them all. And some actually have a chance to win. China continues to dominate the import/export industries, all the while shipping out defective and contaminated products and garnering the market on rare earth minerals and now controls 97% of them world wide. They also are hacking the computers of our country and those of our industries. Mining for secrets, technologies and plans. It's national and industrial espionage. We don't know how to deal with smart countries who are willing to play innocent while picking our pockets clean. In the meantime, we have allowed our industries to ship their jobs and technologies over seas and still reward those companies for doing it, which is why our middle class is disappearing. And it's not like this is something new. It's been happening for decades. In fact since the 1970s. I sort of feel like we have fallen off that turnip truck. Meaning we're so dumb we allow it to happen and don't do anything about it. Actually we're afraid to do anything about it. Can you imagine, we're supposed to be the last superpower and we're afraid to hurt anybody's feelings. Maybe our government's right. We've lost so many industries that we might not be able to make it on our own. At least in the short term. Do you think we could redevelop our industrial base in a couple of years time? Whatever would we do in the interim? Depending on the information age, ain't maken it.