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When the first two sheep run out, there’s a celebration dinner for the second two sheep at home
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The Chinese national government has a surplus, but the local and provincial governments are running massive deficits and have been for a while. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of these actions are to free up cash for the necessary wealth transfer to keep the popping of the property bubble from becoming too catastrophic to the retiring population.
The answer is slightly more complicated than that.
Part of the problem is that a lot of mass transit was built in the USA by private companies to make a profit. This went from trolley lines in small cities to large parts of the NYC Subway and almost all commuter and interciry rail.
Most mass transit systems ended up being built as loss leaders to develop suburban property. After the property was developed, the incentive to maintain mass transit dropped. Along with that, rail companies generally hated passenger service and preferred freight instead.
It eventually got to the point where the private company would collapse and there was little political will to maintain service. There was some lobbying done by auto companies, but a lot of it came from cities and states too cheap to make transit a public good with public funding.
Has Brazil offered to intervene?
And they have not built their system with long term staging/replacement in mind. A lot of their shorter bridges don’t look like they are designed for staged maintenance. Also, the political will to build is different than the political will to maintain.
But I thought Russia was super scared of NATO.
GRAVITY IS DESIRE
TIME IS SIGHT
Is China trying to flip the Filipino flag?
China is engaging in tit-for-tat retaliation for the EU restricting Chinese electric vehicles. The anti-dumping probe is a scare tactic to threaten higher pork tariffs.
If this was the deal after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, I could see it being ok. However, this is the second invasion in a decade.
What keeps Russia from invading a decade later?
Mother Of All Blunts…
But I wanted the Denver Broncos…
It is fairly common for political parties that won liberation to lose elections over time. If anything, that a political change never happens can be a sign of a dysfunctional democracy.
I didn’t know Finland and Sweden got flooded by NGO’s. You know, the countries who actually joined NATO.
If Russia is so peaceful, why would countries want to join NATO?
Why would Europe still be in danger?
Leave them high and dry to whom?
Personally I’m in favour of scrapping parties altogether, but that’s a far deeper rabbit hole.
The problem with political parties is that they end up being a better strategy in terms of game theory than not having parties. Even when actions are taken to get rid of political parties, they naturally form in the matter of coordinating political power across different people.
Why should we hold South Africa to a different standard than other democracies? If we encourage voters to pull support in all major parties in “mature” democracies, why not encourage similar behavior in a democracy like South Africa? A parliamentary system is the best system in allowing a collection of minor parties to come together in creating a new majority government.
California has that property tax; it is not going as well as you would hope. It helps encourage communities to keep from allowing more density and freezes people in their homes as they will never be able to afford moving within their communities.