BBC: "US signals new economic push" and "China's leaders meet to plan economic future" - the rich are getting too rich, while the middle class gets "Standard & Poor" :)

BBC: "US signals new economic push"; my message to US: "Pu-push it real good!".

We need a faster recovery! :)

BBC: "China's leaders meet to plan economic future"; my message to China: "That's the way, aha, aha..."

We are glad that "political reform will even be on the meeting's agenda, after Premier Wen Jiabao recently issued a call for openness.

Mr Wen told US broadcaster CNN earlier this month that calls for "democracy and freedom [in China] will become irresistible".

In August, he said: "Without political reform, China may lose what it has already achieved through economic restructuring."

"The BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing says China wants to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, which has grown in order to prevent strikes and disputes over pay, which have led to social unrest in the past."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11548789

The Roman Empire resorted to PANEM ET CIRCENSES to distract the large crowds of unemployed, unrested and unruly citizens.

Crowd Control Techniques.

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Now, back to the ranch, in USA.

"Democrats must know high unemployment in America has little or nothing to do with China. Yes, China should allow the yuan to rise further against the dollar. But China’s under-valued currency isn’t the reason we’ve lost 15 million jobs since the end of 2007. No, the tax code shouldn’t reward companies for relocating jobs there. But this tax break is barely relevant to the situation we’re in.

Our jobs crisis is due to the collapse of demand in the U.S. after the housing bubble burst. No longer able to borrow against the rising value of their homes, the vast American middle and working class can no longer spend enough to keep the economy going.

If Democrats (or Republicans, for that matter) want to blame something, blame America’s record level of inequality – an almost unprecedented concentration of income and wealth at the top, and a smaller proportion for the vast middle."

http://robertreich.org/

Filthy rich, beware! Don't let 99% of the population get desperate, just because you can.

Amassing [wealth] may be hazardous to you, eventually. Read and learn from history.

You may rich reach :) the critical mass...or rather a mass of people critical of you.

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Joy as Chile miners reach surface (BBC article title) - my Zazzle stamp project to celebrate this great news!

This is my Zazzle stamp project, subject to approval, in celebration of what may be the best good news in the world, in 2010!

Zazzle has approved today my stamp design!
The final version that I submitted has a black border.

http://www.zazzle.com/estamos_bien_en_el_refugio_los_33_miners_message_postage-172647292784973087?rf=238693463283865848

See photos of the rescue, provided by the Chilean Government:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rescatemineros

To be mailed: covers/envelopes with Zazzle (personalized) stamps - only 20 stamps in the world, so far, from most of my stamp designs!

To allow you to see all the details, I have scanned these at a higher resolution (300dpi) than the default one.

If you click on each image and scroll, you'll see.

Click to ZOOM IN, then click again to further ZOOM IN.

Zazzle stamps, like these, are part of the future of philately, I think.

They are not your Grandpa's usual stamps, always designed by somebody else.

Today, YOU can design personalized stamps, and Grandpa can do it, too, with a little help in the IT department. :)

Designing is free. Owning is not, of course.

See examples of my designs (stamps, custom postcards, T-shirts, etc.) in the zazzle link below.

Philately (stamp collecting) in general, and maximaphily in particular, as a confluence of domains: learning, writing, web design, business administration, etc.
http://dorincard.blogspot.com
http://dorinco.webs.com
http://www.squidoo.com/dorincard
http://www.delcampe.com/stores/dorinco
http://www.zazzle.com/dorinco*/
http://s289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/dorincard/