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guesswho   
18 Jan 2011
History / If i could write European history i would unite Europe under Polish language [67]

Do you or did somebody in your wider family have some bad experience with Russians? I really would like to understand your aversion or maybe even hate for them. I'm a little concerned.

I don't hate you. I just don't like you guys. Yes, I do have some personal reasons for my opinion about you but I don't feel like bringing it up on this forum.
guesswho   
18 Jan 2011
Life / The rising costs of food and fuel in Poland and the effects on disposable income/economy [177]

first thing i do is rent a car, youre just lost without one.

Many people in NYC sell their cars because it's faster to go by subway or even to walk.

but in suburbia forget it.

in the suburbs everyone has at least 1 car, most of people have even 2 or 3

in America it is more necessary to use a car than pretty much anywhere else in the world, are you denying that?

Yep, you definitely need a car if you live in the country or a small town.

Isn't it the same in the UK?
guesswho   
18 Jan 2011
Life / The rising costs of food and fuel in Poland and the effects on disposable income/economy [177]

If I were to move back to the states, I'd probably run natural gas or brew up biodiesel at home for the vehicles. The costs of wind-solar-geothermal-biodiesel has dropped dramatically over the last 10 years. There are even some turbine aircraft engines running on biodiesel without a hitch.

You should be doing it in Poland too. Your energy costs are even higher than here.
To be honest, the whole world needs to do something about it.

It's a question of space. Mass transit for cities with 350 people per km2 (OKC) is much harder to pull off than for cities with 5600/km2 (Wroclaw). For the East coast, makes perfect sense, everything to the west...well, why even bother?

I only mentioned it because WB made it sound like there's no mass transit in the US at all.
guesswho   
18 Jan 2011
Life / The rising costs of food and fuel in Poland and the effects on disposable income/economy [177]

We should strive to be like them.

we should work on developing an alternative energy (ASAP) that will allow us to be independent instead to worry about the oil market.

Currently averaging about $3.15/gallon

yep, $2.99 today where I live

We will as soon as they are $1.40 a gallon.

wow, actually everyone will be extremely happy here once it will go down to $1.40 a gallon.

Millions and millions of people on a daily basis, there's no need to drive in any decent sized city.

yep, it helps to travel and see how others live before just making some kind of fantasy comments :-)
guesswho   
17 Jan 2011
Life / The rising costs of food and fuel in Poland and the effects on disposable income/economy [177]

Of course, like I said, you get screwed over the same, just in different positions.

and since we both get screwed over anyway, at least I have to pay less for a gas so in a way, I feel like I'm getting screwed over a little less. If I have to choose between two imperfect things, I choose the one that is a little bit less imperfect. (Of course it's a matter of taste).
guesswho   
17 Jan 2011
Life / The rising costs of food and fuel in Poland and the effects on disposable income/economy [177]

The money is squeezed out of the tax payer in other ways in the US.

Yes we have to pay taxes here. Don't you guys pay taxes over there? No hidden costs in Poland? No "different ways of bending you over" there?

when u have paid for your petrol keep back a few zł to pay the road tolls, which may be introduced in the wroclaw area. (on the... it took twenty years and is still not finished bypass)

oh, here we go convex. That already answers some of my questions above.
guesswho   
17 Jan 2011
Life / The rising costs of food and fuel in Poland and the effects on disposable income/economy [177]

Which answer are you looking for?

just answer them all to be on the safe side ;-)

But, when it spiked in the US, it went up really fast (and dropped fast as well) as opposed to the gradual "slow rape" over here.

Do they ever drop their gas prices there? I'll be honest, I've never paid attention to it when I was there.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

It's probably going to have an impact on China, gw, if you would bother to look thru something besides tunnel vision.

Look I'm posting links (many) to prove that we all are in trouble to show that it's not just an American phenomenon while you strictly concentrate on the US like there's nobody else in the world going through the same hell. Who's got the tunnel vision now PP?

The area where I live it's mainly all about the Baptists and the Methodists but mainly the Baptists.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

it's not even about that PP, he was talking about China, the USA wasn't even in the picture so what was the reason for you to change the subject like that if not the fact that you despise (saying nicely) the US?

Just be a "man" and finally admit it. Listen, no one will be hatting you for your opinion. You don't need to love America but don't say that you care and then your actions show something else.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

I just heard an expert say there will be another crash in the US around September of this year when the mortgages reset.

you can't resist to grab any chance you get to talk about your biggest enemy's problems, can you? lol
I mean, it's so obvious, don't even try to deny it PP.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

No,UK mainland,Yorkshire....those bombs didnt only go off in Belfast you know,so you'll excuse some of us over here who didnt shed too many tears for Ted Kenedy last year.....

Yep, generalizing is never good but you have to admit that the chance to meet an violent Catholic, ready to blow up himself and kill hundreds or even thousands of innocent people is way smaller than meeting a Muslim who'll be ready to do it.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

Another point will be the wish for more democracy of a growing middle class/more self conscious labor force. That will change the China's face alot.

oh yeah, it will change their face a lot but it will also make it way less attractive for the western investors because the more money the average Chinese will make, the less attractive their labor market will be.

But something is going to change big time because the easy math the communist make that their system can survive even with a thriving stone age capitalism won't work for long in my opinion.

fully agree with you here.

China will become alot more restless, maybe even break up.

we know some examples, the SU and the whole eastern block.

yes,if you are freindly with each other.

sweet, thanks for explaining it to me.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

Firms won't relocate to China so easily anymore if they have to pay similiar wages as at home...

exactly

China will get all these "problems" we western countries have to cope with too.

the only difference is that we have the potential and the know how to solve our problems sooner or later and for the Chinese it's all new. Just look at all these Lotto millionaires, many of them are spending their money as quick as they "got" it.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

Yes,but whats the cost of living in China compared to the US,thats the important question,not how much is being made. and,$104,really 3% of avarage us wage,really?

It probably went up a little in the meantime but still, the Chinese people are being enslaved by their own government having to work for peanuts comparing with most of other countries.

Lol,dont you believe it mate,China has treated its "people" like trash for thousands of years,untill the communists there was no history of the people rising up.....I hate to say it,but as a people they do seem on the whole a servile bunch.

Yep, but in the past few thousand years China wasn't open to the whole wide world like it is now and Chinese people couldn't compare their miserable lives with the rest of the world.

er,gitmo....maybe best as an American if you didnt bring up extra judicial imprisonment....

falundafa.org/czech/data/tabory/bnr_sutiatun_en.pdf

(btw. do you say mate even to the females in the UK?)

As far as Gitmo, we don't need to even start discussing it because I openly admit that I despise Muslims for being religious fanatics and for killing innocent people all around the world in the name of Allah. (open another thread if you want to discuss about it).

China is expected to suffer their own bubble-crash in the next year or so..

yep, the internet is full of links indicating bad times for the Chinese economy.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

A country that still has concentration camps for its political opponents and that enslaves its people, who have to work for a few cents an hour is very vulnerable in my eyes. Not to even mention its very vulnerable economy (see my link again).

No matter what you say, you won't convince me here. The SU was also a very powerful and a very merciless toward its opponents country and had so many Gulags (Soviet concentration camps) allover the SU and it still didn't help.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

That can make for a powerful govt, even if the people are weak.

You mean just like it did to the rest of the communist (socialist) countries like the SU and the entire eastern block?

YES, it will most likely happen one day, China will disappear in this form as it is now just like the SU and the GDR did too.

No country that treats its own people like China has a chance to survive in the long run.
guesswho   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

That means that an average Chinese will be more likely to have a job than an average American

NOPE

6. Unemployment

It sounds a paradox that the Chinese economy can grow at 8% and yet unemployment is still a problem. The reason is that there are still many state owned enterprises which are grossly inefficient. Therefore, in the process of privatisation and modernisation many surplus workers are being made redundant. There is also a lot of unemployment (and disguised unemployment) in the agricultural sector.

economicshelp.org/essays/problems-chinese-economic-growth.html

nd the jobs are mostly not that great and pay very low wages...

Wow, I have to agree with you