heightDate Line July 21, 2007
Shrink, shrank, shrunk. Surpluses move into record deficit territory; the population grows shorter, as the short nations grow taller. But wait! Population height is generally equated to intelligence, wealth, and general well-being.
America, as lead by the Hard-Hats, the Right-wing, the Evangelical, the Idiots of the world, is getting worse on every measure. Now comes the real insult.
The world’s tallest building belonged to Egypt, when Egypt ruled the world. The tallest structure belonged to France, when French was the language of the educated and the artistic elite.
As America grew in power, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, even the Sears Towers could be said to have marked that preeminence.
Taiwan, the land claimed by China, claimed the mark with Taipei 101; but everyone understand that 10 is only a basic level. In 2004, Taipei 101came in at 1667 feet. Oh well, the World Trade Center was only 1368 feet tall (300 feet; not even close). American decline without the aid of Osama and Company.
I earned my Real Estate Brokers License relocating firms from the old building being razed to make room for the Trade Center. Seeing it come, seeing it go, seeing America become a World Superpower, and an economic disaster in the making. Add the 60's and quite a life.
You can measure the fall of America by the distance the Sears Tower exceeded the World Trade Center ... only 1.9 feet ... less than the length of my arm.
Taipei 101 beat the sears Tow by fully twenty (20%) percent. Now there is a new entry: The Burji Dubai has passed 1680 feet and is still under construction. The goal is in excess of 2275 feet!
The Burji Dubai shall be nearly a thousand feet above American best efforts. Where are our engineers? Where are our skilled construction workers? Where is the money needed to construct a world monument?
The United Arab Emirates has the immigrant work force, the money, an intelligent engineering and architectural staff, and they are doing what many American “experts” said could not be done; they are going to take a manmade structure two-fifths of a mile above the earth.
When, in the sixties, I was skydiving, static line release was from a lower altitude that the top platform of the Burji Dubai. I doubt anyone will successfully jump, because I’d doubt anyone could bring a chute to the top; but we are talking potential structural jump record.
Poor America.
Our educational system is being stripped to pay for Iraq;
Our healthcare system is being stripped to pay for Iraq;
Our Social Security System is being bleed to pay for Iraq;
Our roads and infrastructure are being abandoned, to pay for Iraq;
Our future earnings will be excessively taxed, to pay Iraq debt;
Our future earnings are pledged to China because of Iraq debt; and
If we don’t want to pay, China forty million surplus men to put into the collection army that will ensure collection.
Reagan Voodoo Economics, combined with King George military adventurism and routine lies, will ensure the fall of America.
Were is our next generation energy resource? Are we following the Carter mandate to build solar? Or are we looking to build more nuclear plants; those things which can be exploded by terrorists?
Nuclear fallout will be of our own making; Economic destruction of our making; teach our kids that a deity created the universe in six days, and that evolution is a myth. What use have we for reality?
Fantasy worlds, the worlds of the Right-wing and the Evangelicals. The Armageddon which the Christian Right wants so dearly; and will do anything to ensure comes. We want these for America; and if we get them: What need education or healthcare?
_____________________________________________________ America, as lead by the Hard-Hats, the Right-wing, the Evangelical, the Idiots of the world, is getting worse on every measure. Now comes the real insult.
The world’s tallest building belonged to Egypt, when Egypt ruled the world. The tallest structure belonged to France, when French was the language of the educated and the artistic elite.
As America grew in power, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, even the Sears Towers could be said to have marked that preeminence.
Taiwan, the land claimed by China, claimed the mark with Taipei 101; but everyone understand that 10 is only a basic level. In 2004, Taipei 101came in at 1667 feet. Oh well, the World Trade Center was only 1368 feet tall (300 feet; not even close). American decline without the aid of Osama and Company.
I earned my Real Estate Brokers License relocating firms from the old building being razed to make room for the Trade Center. Seeing it come, seeing it go, seeing America become a World Superpower, and an economic disaster in the making. Add the 60's and quite a life.
You can measure the fall of America by the distance the Sears Tower exceeded the World Trade Center ... only 1.9 feet ... less than the length of my arm.
Taipei 101 beat the sears Tow by fully twenty (20%) percent. Now there is a new entry: The Burji Dubai has passed 1680 feet and is still under construction. The goal is in excess of 2275 feet!
The Burji Dubai shall be nearly a thousand feet above American best efforts. Where are our engineers? Where are our skilled construction workers? Where is the money needed to construct a world monument?
The United Arab Emirates has the immigrant work force, the money, an intelligent engineering and architectural staff, and they are doing what many American “experts” said could not be done; they are going to take a manmade structure two-fifths of a mile above the earth.
When, in the sixties, I was skydiving, static line release was from a lower altitude that the top platform of the Burji Dubai. I doubt anyone will successfully jump, because I’d doubt anyone could bring a chute to the top; but we are talking potential structural jump record.
Poor America.
Our educational system is being stripped to pay for Iraq;
Our healthcare system is being stripped to pay for Iraq;
Our Social Security System is being bleed to pay for Iraq;
Our roads and infrastructure are being abandoned, to pay for Iraq;
Our future earnings will be excessively taxed, to pay Iraq debt;
Our future earnings are pledged to China because of Iraq debt; and
If we don’t want to pay, China forty million surplus men to put into the collection army that will ensure collection.
Reagan Voodoo Economics, combined with King George military adventurism and routine lies, will ensure the fall of America.
Were is our next generation energy resource? Are we following the Carter mandate to build solar? Or are we looking to build more nuclear plants; those things which can be exploded by terrorists?
Nuclear fallout will be of our own making; Economic destruction of our making; teach our kids that a deity created the universe in six days, and that evolution is a myth. What use have we for reality?
Fantasy worlds, the worlds of the Right-wing and the Evangelicals. The Armageddon which the Christian Right wants so dearly; and will do anything to ensure comes. We want these for America; and if we get them: What need education or healthcare?
