Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "European Union Backs Down On Tariffs, GDP at 4% Growth, Krugman A Sad Man" video.

  1. Skip that restaurant meal out, and pay for the olive oil and the organic veggies...
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  2. Don't really have to change anything, major, all at once. Just keep making connections on the individual level. We're already to the point where I can find a master shoemaker in some faraway land, who makes the bestest-cheapest shoes in the world, and thinks I'm her greatest benefactor, because my idea of "cheap" times 20 other customers I know and she's instant Middle Class. So much creativity. So many tiny capillaries forming in the circulatory system. So many people connecting and discovering and sharing. And nobody controls it. Drives some folks crazy. Brings others joy and hope.
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  3. We need to start using the fermented soy, like they do in Japan. Our brand of soy additives in everything messes with the hormones. The lovely Faith Goldy will happily explain.
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  4. China, Russia, India, more or less in that order. EU is really 2nd or 3rd rater, taken all together. That's why it was so funny watching Trump meet with EU/NATO, and see the reactions on the major networks. EU know they're lightweights, who've been ripping us off for a long time. We're not the ones who need to be afraid of a trade war. Meeting with them, first, was getting the house in order before the Big Meet with Putin. I kind of speculated that China would go the way it seems to be going. Yeah, they're growing like mad (polluting like hell). But they're kind of stuck, trying to get to a certain point while still telling their people what to do on every little thing. The more they "steal" our knowledge, the harder it gets to control the ones who stole it! And although we kid ourselves about how free we are, we see the American Establishment brands of control ALSO slipping. No matter how they try to control the interwebz, they still haven't figured out quite how, and all kinds of subversive conservative ideas about limited government at home and limited footprint, abroad. The more countries behave that way, starting with US, the sooner we'll be, in effect, a globalist system, but _without_giving_up_liberty_to_do_it! That's the problem with the so-called "globalists," who are mostly just a thinly veiled socialist international, a cooperative global organism is to be found in independent individuals in independent states making free trades with other individuals - near and far. We're on the cusp of it. And our kids can really see it, once they're off the government-centric Kool-Aid we raise them on.
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  5. Canola oil is American grown rape seed. Grow it at about 1500-2000 feet, up on the Prairie Northwest. JUST high enough and JUST enough rain to grow a decent crop, most years, in the loess.
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  6. What astounds me is knowing that even though we can support it, anybody who travels the land knows how hard it is not to see another human face or human habitation. The places where the eye can rest on nothing but nature are growing fewer, and more people want to enjoy that experience. We're all kinda rubbin' up against each other. That's why city dwellers seem so insane to the rest of us, and thank goodness the presidential election has a winner-take-all setup in the electoral college, on a state-by-state basis. So ALL the countryside and at least a FEW pissed-off cities in the heartland can dig in their heels, when the cities lose sight of reality, which is very easy in an artificial environment, where so many people are living so close to so many other people. All kinds of illusions can take root and grow in an artificial setting, like that. We adapt to the rules that are in force, and the rules can get turned upside-down, when folks are too far away from the Earth. I can see folks liking to have neighbors, but everybody should be in daily touch with a patch of ground, somewhere. I just had 2 apple trees put in and await delivery of a maple. Spent a little extra for a tree that was farther along. (At 5,000 ft asl, trees and such don't grow that fast, although they do appreciate the sunshine, if it doesn't burn 'em up. The point that I lost is that it's pure joy to add a couple trees to the back yard. Grew up on Johnny Appleseed. Doin' my bit, between the high plains and the Rocky Mtn Frontrange. Any and every person alive ought to have that kind of goal. "I wanna bit of land that I can stick a pair of apple trees on, if I want to." Sculpting your own little part of the world can make the world richer. I love planting edibles, figuring ways to get 'em water. Added raspberries. Already have a rabbit family out back. Want to retire some place where there's DEER in the back yard. And a lake in the back yard.
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  7. Dang. Got sidetracked. Last few days of vacation and just slurpin' 'n' burpin' knowledge. What I started out to say was JUST when the West solved the population growth problem, they freaked out and needed to DO something. That's a big part of the immigration deal. And I get it. But the immigrants need to conform to the norms (and know something of our IDEALS) in order to reside in our borders. If they DO, then they'll probably fast-track to prosperity and become selfish middle-classers, who can't be bothered raising kids, pursuing art and music careers and spending their days taking selfies... But what we do, instead, is offer an easy way to a free harem for a man from a different culture, who USES women. The welfare checks for 5 wives, sharing meals and Heh. I think we're looking at a pretty benign solution to the stress we put on the environment, and it's apparently Western culture! So why mess that up, by importing more people? Howzabout we find a better balance, within ourselves, and limit immigration to a manageable number, selected primarily for good citizenship prospects, as in educated or skilled in a trade.
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  8. American soy, corn syrup. Corn's like the most useless crop there is, but we prop it up.
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  9. And I love tortillas and corn's in my soups, and every once in awhile, my breakfast cereal.
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