From: Keith W on

"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Tchiowa writes:
>
>> Well we won't have to worry about that because at the current
>> comparative rates of growth it will take China most of a century to
>> catch up to the US.
>
> Actually, at current rates, it will overtake the United States by
> 2034, in far less than one century.
>
> China is growing at an annual rate of 9.9%; the USA is growing at an
> annual rate of 3.5%. The USA has a GDP of $12.49 trillion; China has
> a GDP of $2.225 trillion. It will thus take China 27.8 years to
> overtake the United States. There is good reason to believe that the
> actual time will be less, since the growth rate of China is
> increasing.
>

If you assume such a growth rate is sustainable. That seems unlikely.
China has maxed out its coal production and is already buying
just about all the oil on the spot market. Since Chinese growth depends
critically on energy availability I seriously doubt it can be sustained at
current levels let alone increased.

Keith



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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On 30 Jul 2006 17:55:23 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

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>Dave Frightens Me wrote:

>> Yeah, blah blah blah...
>>
>> You seem to continually ignore that it's working just fine in a large
>> number of very affluent countries.
>
>You seem to continually ignore the fact that it is in fact *failing* in
>all those large, affluent countries. You can almost graph the level of
>Socialism and the high rate of unemployment and see the parallel. The
>more Socialism the slower the economy is growing and the higher the
>unemployment.
>
>France.
>
>Germany.

Japan? Australia?
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:30:42 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dave Frightens Me writes:
>
>> Why not let them find out themselves?
>
>What other options are there?

You see to think carrying on about it is one.
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:31:34 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dave Frightens Me writes:
>
>> They are professionals, unlike you.
>
>What is the difference between professionals and non-professionals?

The money you can demand.
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On 30 Jul 2006 18:18:09 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>Dave Frightens Me wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:47:20 -0700, "Stan de SD"
>> <standesd_DIGA_NO_A_SPAM(a)covad.net> wrote:
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>> >
>> >"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>> >news:cnehb2919t0m8th8kjg11jnq7pbi3ccb6e(a)4ax.com...
>> >> Stan de SD writes:
>> >>
>> >> > We pick up the slack for crybabies in Europe when it comes to defense
>> >...
>> >>
>> >> The US also surpasses all of Europe put together for aggression.
>> >
>> >You forgetting your European buddies Hitler and Stalin?
>>
>> They are both very long dead. Believe it or not, things have changed
>> since then.
>
>Milosevic.
>
>Tell me all about the "change".

What Mixi wrote.
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