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If a lot of brown people lived in Canada, I wonder if our trade with them would be a mirror to our trade with Mexico, Latin and South America, and the Carribean nations. What happened to development of the hemisphere? Greed. Okay. Still, what makes us think we can go into a country and defacto, own it and control it? Resistance was not exactly futile, reference East and West Africa. Reference the Middle East. Reference Southeast Asia. When did humans revert back to being designated as predictable, ownable, and oppressed entities? What caused this decline? Greed. Okay.

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The students of the world come here and learn business methodology and production, theory, and development techniques, take them back to their countries and, after a tweek or so, apply what has been learned from us. We are not as good at taking technology, tearing it apart to see how to steal proprietary innovations, but it happens, I'm sure. It is a cut throat world, always has been, I suppose. Eventually, we will get around to taking it back using a big stick of sanctions against nations who do not conform to: well, our way of thinking and believeing and doing business. Why? Greed.

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Dependency on foreign aid from USA is in for a hit, looks like. If we get Trump for seven more years, the world will not be the same. I twill be poorer and the wealthy of the earth will continue to ammas huge fortunes and control of world resources. Transfer of foreign expenditures (and many domestic expenditures on non-wealthy citizens) to mega-corporation development may be the new rule to promote USA dominance in global markets. Money has a voice and manipulation of cash flow is partly the definition of power. More freedoms will erode or be ignored as billions of greenbacks are divereted to develop mega-military machines in the name of homeland security. We turn away from what is being done, mostly because of September 11 and the election of a black president, marching to ages old tunes of we are the greatest nation ever was. Ah, those brown people tend to stir things up, don't they?. Why? Greed.

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Move over EU. See how well you thrive without the UK on the inside. Let us see a raise of hands for how many countries in Europe have nulear arsenals? Trade with USA may diminish severly as well with EU businesses - it is a pattern, a commercial war already declared. How the separation agreement unfolds will help or harm EU trade possibilities with USA in the future. Old agreements are being "Trumped" and we are withdrawing financing of ideas proposed by other nations, federations, foreign states, an the United Nations. How much money flows int the organizations behind these structures looks good on paper, but how much is really there and how is it being spent? Like the wall, we don't really want it (that's our drug connection) but making Mexico pay for it is a metaphorical threat to trade in the future. Once more, U.S. citizens will go into the fields and reap and glean. Jobs. Unions to follow, profits to be shared for back breaking labor. We are pampered and seek desk jobs. That is about to end. We eat too much anyway and out in the cucumber collection career, eathing will be severely curtailed - not available to munch and lunch, not pain free enough to host large eating events. Fast food restaurants will become ghost structures all over the country and the world. Recouping costs and maintenance for the wall between Mexico and an USA will come from other than taxpayer's pockets. Tariff is such an ugly word, isn't it? Let the negotiations begin.

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Lines are being redrawn. Excising or exiting, no different. There's a new sheriff in town. You look good on paper, oh mighty European Union, and in print, but how much is invested and how much in assets or wishful or anticipated increases in dream currency? Billions of dollars (or Euros) are only as strong as the production of the people served - the new gold standard. I am seeing protests across the EU demanding social welfare benefits to continue and increase, not fall as is the outcome as euros filter to the top layers of investment structures. Employment is plummeting. It is the same here, only the jobs being created won't buy what we want when we want it; only enough to get by with profits for businesses soaring. Will the writers of business tax assessments please step forward! Benefits like retirment pay are going broke and Trump does not strike me as a compassionate person when it comes to bail-outs of failing entitlements. He doesn't need Social Security so it's not important. And when do we get to see those tax returns, laddie? Has anyone seen millions of baby boomers march on Washington? Mess with us at your own peril. We will storm the House floor, take over the Senate, and take hostages. Why? Greed.

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Like plague, the poor will eventually catch on to the fact that they work hard and receive a lot less than their predecessor grandparents. As the middle class vanishes and the creek rises, we hope for a reprieve. It has happened before and why should this generation fail to pull us back from the precipice above a deep dark abyss. If it all fails and crumbles, we tend to rally and rebuild. We will get it right or better for the people, eventually. May I live long enough to see the current trends of dollars flowing upward reversed, at least, slowed.

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Increased productivity without war will bouy the less than emerging nations and turn the developing nations into global players. No wars? When was the last time that happened for longer than 30 days? It is time to share the wealth defined as resources. Taking control of natural resources, nationalizing foreign businesses may begin to rise and the usual suspects given the boot. I'd like to live long enough to see some of that as well. Too many fingers in the national pies of the world from outside the countries attempting to feed themselves and grow viable and sustainable economies. Governments are entrenched and not wise. Air and solar power, electric cars, and sustainable energy sources will be developed. Anyone who falls behind and keeps depending on coal and fossil fuels (petroleum and natural gas) are in for a plunge. Eventually, people get tired of oppression as will the world's smaller governments. And a huge outcry will go out throughout the lands. Why? Greed.

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Oh Venezuela! Where are you now? Don't you care about your sons and daughters? Posturing for the world press and the local media screaming see me, I'm successful and own billions in cash an property is where we are now while people starve. People die from bad water and curable diseases daily with no relief in sight, or rather, less relief in sight. I am like Sam Cooke singing, "I know a change gone come." It will. And we may not have to wait long. Why? Greed. I'm jus sayin'. 

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Stella L. Crews

08-06-17

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