On (28 Mar 95) Rod Speed wrote to Keith Richardson...



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

 KR> those caught in the same boat as us, at least we make more

 KR> money out of the japs than they make out of us - that ain't

 KR> true of the yanks, or many others for that matter. the superhighway,

 KR> and indeed computers in general are just minor sideshows really,

 KR> it's still hard yakka on the farm, and in the mines, and waiting

 KR> table for our esteemed foreign guests that keep this country in

 KR> some semblance of being afloat. the rest of us thee and me

 KR> included are merely deckchair arrangers on this 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.



 KR> uhuh... the old f6 macro eh.



 RS> Uggh, this pathetically silly stuff again, have you

 RS> no imagination at all boy ?



rather more than yourself gramps (:



 KR> if you can explain how the above can be construed

 KR> as a sky is falling message, then please do so.



 RS> There was a tad more in that message than just that para Keith boy,

 RS> and the entire message was rabbiting on doomsaying etc. That last

 RS> line actually talks about deckchairs on the titanic. Funny that.



i suppose that one of the early symptoms of excessive aluminium intake

is the lack of ability in distinguishing expressions used to make a

point from straight littoral writing. i dont suppose the next stages

will be very funny from your point of view, but should give the rest of

us a few laughs (:



 RS> Yes, the analogy did change, thats how english is used at times Keith.



 RS> You might care to contemplate that



i'd rather contemplate my navel, it has a wider range of expressions

than your good self (:



   KR> at least we make more money out of the japs than they make out of

   KR> us - that ain't true of the yanks, or many others for that matter.



 RS> That 'or many others' is the bit thats crap Keith, in fact we

 RS> make money out of every single country in asia if you lump China

 RS> and HongKong together, with the sole exception of Brunei, which

 RS> we have a tiny trade volume with anyway. Which just happens to

 RS> be by far the fastest growing section of world trade. You are

 RS> just pathetically faking away your blooper Keith. Fools no one.



if things are so good, how do we end up with a 1-2 billion dollars

deficit each month?



 KR> it says nothing about the state of the country,



 RS> Is that right, not even the titanic bit, nor the 'or many

 RS> others for that matter' ?  Sure Keith, whatever you recon.



i do recon the odd bit of obsolete computer equipment now and again, but

what has that to do with the state of the country? (other than

marginally improving the balance of trade)



 KR> just an opinion of where the effort to keep it afloat is coming from.



 RS> Oh yeah ?



my grandson will be after you for stealing his best line of argument -

it seems to be your best also.



 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

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

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



 KR> there seems to be something of a difference between your

 KR> view of the state of our balance of trade and that of

 KR> everyone from the bureau of stats to standard and poors.



 RS> Nope. The bureau of stats produces trade figures which

 RS> show that stuff I said totally unambiguously Keith.



the bureau of stats seem to produce a rather nasty deficit each month,

or maybe you use a different bureau of stats to the rest of us.



 RS> S&P dont actually have anything much to say on total country situations.



 KR> we were recently described by one authority as resembling mexico.



 RS> But not by any authority which is of any value. Its just the

 RS> usual completely silly hype. You may have noticed that we didnt

 RS> have to be bailed out by the US or the UN. Funny that. Just shows

 RS> what a completely silly statement that is whoever said if Keith.

 RS> Yes, fools abound.



unfortunately (and i really do mean that) their words carry a lot more

impact in the world that yours gramps. actually we seem to have been

bailed out largely by japanese interests, when you are in the red by

15-20 billion a year, you have to be bailed out by someone. whether you

are bailed out by japanese life insurance companies, or the us

government, it come to the same thing rally, except that the japs will

probably expect to get it back one day.



                        Keith









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