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Average American Owes Average Chinese $4000

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:01:47 GMT

clipped by: invictus

This is really an astonishing number. From James Fallows' new essay, "The $1.4 Trillion Question:"

Through the quarter-century in which China has been opening to world trade, Chinese leaders have deliberately held down living standards for their own people and propped them up in the United States. This is the real meaning of the vast trade surplus—$1.4 trillion and counting, going up by about $1 billion per day—that the Chinese government has mostly parked in U.S. Treasury notes. In effect, every person in the (rich) United States has over the past 10 years or so borrowed about $4,000 from someone in the (poor) People’s Republic of China.

Based on 2006 per capita GDP numbers that means we've sucked almost 23% per year from the average Chinese earner's income.

Can you imagine what you'd do if someone was borrowing 22% of your income a year and forcing you to endure a lower standard of living in the process? You'd be rather unhappy, no?

Tags: economy, china, united states

Nude Is Not Lewd

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:21:48 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks:

Many women worry that nudity might be mistaken for availability. Many men worry that nudity might become too stimulating.

People worry too much. Nothing is more natural than the naked body. Throw of those old duds and get yourself a proper tan next summer! Feel the wind under your...wings! *LOL* Nudity is cool and it lessens the laundry load too. Be natural, be brave, be stark raving nude once in a while! It's very liberating. Oh... and if your American? Don't fret.

Being unclothed is not illegal on Federal lands, says the National Park Service. It is one of our Constitutional rights according to a federal court decision (Williams vs Hathaway 400F Supp.122 {D.Mass.1975})

The law says it's okay, God says it's okay....chuck it!! There's no excuse!!

Clip Song *giggle*

Clip Source: www.libchrist.com

Many people have been brought up taught that nudity is immoral and we should never allow others to see our true bodies. It is alright to titillate with provocative clothing, or tiny beach wear, but not to show the natural beauty of our bodies, especially genitals or women's breasts.

This sense of shame is not inborn: it is learned. Babies have no shame and neither did many early Christians in Biblical times.

when first exposed to this experience it becomes much less sexual and more naturally enjoyable

Nudity can be sexual if consenting persons wish it to be and in appropriate settings, but it is not necessary to progress from nudity to sexual activity.

Naturism is commonly accepted in much of Europe, where it has been shown that sexual attitudes are much more healthy, with less sexual abuse and violence.

In Europe

a great deal of success raising well adjusted children

We are living in a society in which sexuality is very distorted.

nothing more beautiful and dignified than the human body

Tags: i, live, in, europe, of, course, lol

Images of Africa

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:04:16 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii

Clip Source: www.linkinn.com

Tags: pictures