Donâ(TM)t worry! All of those useless eaters wont have the money to buy any of the products the machines make, so those machines + the rich people trying to employ them, will be on the unemployment line too. Then we can all repurpose those machines to farm food for us - so we can maybe have something to eat beside dirt.

Look on the bright side! Global Warming models showed California being destroyed by massive wildfires waaaayyy back in the 1990s! Some Iâ(TM)m sure you all rallied around the science and planned for these problems! Iâ(TM)m so glad to hear it! So pull out some marshmallows folks and enjoy! The solutions you all worked so hard to implement! And, hey! The really good news is that desertification follows the wildfires, so - no more fires in 20 years! Yay!

Like any tool created by man, it can be used for good or ill. As an example, let's consider a nice, sweet, banana cream pie. Who ever invented the banana cream pie, created it to be eaten and enjoyed. It was meant to bring joy to those who like bananas and pie. But you can take that cream pie and leave it at the top of some stairs in a high rise office building, then pull the fire alarm. As people rush to exit the building - someone - and maybe many somones- will slip and fall on that pie - turning it into a lethal weapon. Blaming Mark, and the tool he created (Facebook), as a bringer of evil - is like blaming the inventor of the banana cream pie for killing people in that fire alarm hoax. It's ridiculous. People do bad things. Blame and punish those people that do bad things. Not the person who invents something to make the world a better place.

I can tell you that the moment Trump puts a 45% tariff on Chinese imports, we will begin manufacturing an entire industry they stole from us. We will immediately hire back 40 workers that lost their jobs when China flooded our markets with cheap products. These new manufacturing jobs will pay 30% more than the retail jobs these people were left with.

Most of China's growth has come directly off the backs of US manufacturers and the US labor force. And other countries are now following suit! The world is using our economy to lift themselves up from the mud and filth. That's not a bad thing, until you realize just how many people our economy must support! We will go belly up before we lift the world out of the muck! China, and now other low-labor-cost nations, don't want to see the gravy train end! Just FYI - this is China's plan to rape the US people since the 1990s - and they've had this cash machine running day and night for decades: 1. Use Chinese low-cost labor to under-cut US production prices. 2. No tariffs = direct to consumer prices 3. Flood US Markets with low-cost goods that US Manufacturers can not compete against (because Chinese laborers work at a rate of $10 US per day, well below the US minimum wage - so - by US law - American manufacturers can not compete with Chinese imported products). 4. US Manufacturers go out of business because they can not compete 5. Collect and Export cash from US sales to China, draining cash from manufacturer profit and manufacturer expenses (loss of jobs) - which directly translates into a loss of government taxes, employee income taxes, and corporate income taxes, weakening the US government. The US people are trading more than 60% taxable income for 6% sales tax income. 7. China taxes and uses that incoming cash to invest in: * Chinese growth to make China more competitive - which drops price more - which cements export processes - which floods more US industries with Chinese goods - which forces more US companies out of business - starting the cycle all over again. * Loan money back to the US to buy up chunks of the US at a discount * influence elections to guide US laws and policies in favor of maintaining the gravy train. Wake up, folks! This is the new world war. The US taught the world how you win - which is through manufacturing strength. He who makes the goods, has the cash. He who has the cash, can afford the biggest sticks to whack people with. We are at war! And we finally have someone who will negotiate fair trade!

So - China - your plan is to hold 2 industries at gun point and expect that to sway us over the loss of the entire US Manufacturing base? Take a long walk off a short pier.

The bible is a collection of stories that are really lessons - all designed to guide people away from common life mistakes and to help them lead a good and fulfilling life. Most are not meant to be "Non-fiction" stories. Think of it in the vain of generalized lessons like "Live by the sword, die by the sword." As for climate change denial, I've decided that nothing will wake them up until they see something unexplainable happen in their lives. I denied climate change until I personally witnessed 2 mass extinction events. The second of which completely devastated my local environment. There was nothing I could do be research "why" it happened. But, by then, it was too late to do anything about it except cry over what was lost.

i don't have all day to make a complete list - so we'll see how far I get before I become to disgusted to go on.... 1. Serious lag - even with most systems turned off 2. Changes to file access process have me stumbling around trying to figure out how to remove programs. 3. The gaming sucks because I get asked if I want to buy stuff between each game. 4. My son decided to fill out the account profile - which then locked the rest of the family out of our computer. He had to share his password - which accesses all of his Microsoft accounts - with he family. And also, all of the functions of 10 are now locked to him. 5. The pop-up blocker is not working for Firefox in some sites. I'm not sure if this was intentional, or simply an oversight, but it looks suspicious to me. There's more, but I need to get going. I'm seeking other alternatives right now to 10. I wish I could go back to 7 in the meantime. : ( ~S

And who will lose cash if China places tariffs on imported goods? Big conglomerates. Who does the GOP represent? Big conglomerates. They'd never vote for it. Never happen.

You might think sending solar power business to China is not that bad - after all, it's just a little trickle of cash leaving our economy. Let's think of the cash in our economy as blood in your body. You only have so much blood. Cash leaving our economy for the solar business is like a tick sipping a little of our blood at a time. A little isn't so bad - you don't miss it. But there are millions of low cost products flooding our markets. It's like there are a million ticks feeding on our economy. The blood flowing out of us like a river. How long can your body live when your are spouting a river of blood? How long can the US economy stand to lose that river of cash? Our economy is currently suffering from a major shifting of wealth from us out to developing nations.