On (23 Mar 95) Rod Speed wrote to Keith Richardson...



 KR> its a big hard world, and the only friends that we have are those

 KR> caught in the same boat as us, at least we make more money out of

 KR> the japs than they make out of us - that ain't true of the yanks,

 KR> or many others for that matter. the superhighway, and indeed computers

 KR> in general are just minor sideshows really, it's still hard yakka on

 KR> the farm, and in the mines, and waiting table for our esteemed foreign

 KR> guests that keep this country in some semblance of being afloat. the

 KR> rest of us thee and me included are merely deckchair arrangers on this

 KR> titanic of ours.



 RS> And there is a tad of a problem with some people running around

 RS> in ever decreasing circles screaming about the sky falling too.



uhuh... the old f6 macro eh. if you can explain how the above can be

construed as a sky is falling message, then please do so. it says

nothing about the state of the country, just an opinion of where the

effort to keep it afloat is comming from.



 RS> When we have a positive balance of trade with the fastest growing

 RS> sector of the world by far, and with every single country in it if

 RS> you lump HongKong and China together except Brunei, which is so

 RS> small it doesnt matter a stuff, no point in getting too hysterical.



there seems to be something of a difference between your view of the

state of our balance of trade and that of everyone from the bureau of

stats to standard and poors. we were recently described by one authority

as resembling mexico.



                        Keith



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