"John R. Carroll" wrote in
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Eregon wrote:
"John R. Carroll" wrote in
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National Geographic did a program on what it would take to make Mars
habitable.
It's possible, but would take more than a hundred years while we
waited of running the hardware that would be necessary to generate
an atmosphere and rudimentary plant life to take hold. Doable, in
other words, but hardly an undertaking for a society of impatient's.
Congressional elections occur every two years.

On our present course we'd be preparing Mars for the Chinese.

Since (under the present policies at any rate) the Chinese will be
picking up the tab, what's the downside?

America would continue to look more and more like China in terms of
living standards.




That has been the goal of the Democrats since Lyndon Johnson became
President.

According to the party's leading economic theorists the reason for the
adverse Balance of Payments (imports higher than exports) was that, quite
simply, the US Standard of Living was too high and had to be reduced
BELOW that of the countries from whom the US imported goods. In this way
the US "consumer" (individual or corporation) could not afford to
purchase imported goods but other countries would eagerly purchase our
exports.

This theory matches what China has done: few, if any, imports other than
raw materials with many exports.