Earlier during detente the analysts had predicted the economic collapse of the Soviet bloc. It was the higher ups (many of which are very familiar faces nowadays) which didn't take too kindly to that intepretation. Deegan had an article on this awhile ago.Admiral Valdemar wrote:The CIA did their fair of bullshitting as the USSR fell, though they didn't run on the mistaken assumption that the US had defeated the evil empire, rather than internal and inevitable turmoil breaking it apart instead.
CIA: EU will break-up by 2020
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It'll add up - not enough to make the system go on forever, but enough to keep a big reform doable when there's no way to put it off any longer.Dahak wrote:Which are no real reforms, but little itsy-bitsy pieces to keep the old system walking a bit longer. There has not been a major reform or breakthrough.
They're doing as much as reasonably possible - better than getting voted off, and nothing happens at all.
I'm pretty sure it will. Not necessarily by the theoretical amount, but they aren't nearly done screwing us over yet...Which doesn't mean a thing if the actual age people really retire isn't going to soar.
Claimed. You didn't think they'd actually lower the rates, did you?Which don't work out at all. The insurance rates are not going down, as was hoped.
It added confusion.The "bureaucracy-cutting measure" didn't cut any bureaucracy. Maybe even added some.
That'll pass.
Have faith, for without faith, there's only despair...
Luckily, people here don't seem to care enough for that to happen.In Germany, every year is election year, as there is an election almost any month somewhere in the republic. And someone will scream and rant if they do things which could alter their chances of election.
Doing cuts means that hundreds of pressure groups and lobbyists crawl out from the woodworks and start screaming.
I'm speculating that Germany will do worse, but not bad enough to take the union apart.
Seeing the crap they pull and still get elected, I'd have to say everyone. And please note that I didn't say they were good, only that they kicked ass.Like...who?
And that it's not that clear whose ass they kick.
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Anyone remember VR? (Virtual Reality) Now look at where it is now.Admiral Valdemar wrote:
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I'm going to remain skeptical. Frankly, given the widespread belief of the sci-fi wankery of nanotech, it's too easy to see a nanotech 'bubble' that makes the 90s seem sane.
Provided you let the scientists dictate what can and cannot be done and not the PR spinsters, I don't see a problem.
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Seriously, who actually secures funding in this day and age? It isn't the scientists. The comparison to the 90s Internet Bubble isn't for show. I know there's legitimate breakthroughs waiting for nanotech.. And I'll be proud when they hit. But it's pretty naive to think that there won't be fallout to the widespread belief in the nonsense being peddled.
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