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India Joins Galileo Consortium
ghoul writes "Yahoo! is reporting that both India and China have joined the Galileo Consortium as part of an effort at building a Multipolar world.
Of note is the fact while China is giving money (200 Million Euros) India is giving 350 million Euros(almost half a billion dollars) in parts and services as Indian satellite makers are considered world class. Makes you think with all the outsourcing and stuff maybe America's century is coming to an end and this century will belong to India or China. After all one of them is 1/6th of the world and the other 1/5th."
Our American political, educational and economic problems, never insignificant, are starting to counterbalance our original advantages of unspoiled resources, strategic position, and freedom. In Confucian China, complacency is a sin; in America, it's a way of life.
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make install -not war
But you're not worried over 400b$ spent on army ?!?!
Keep in mind that it's the old people who have all the money in this country. Of course, some of them have a lot more money than others. You can address this by "redistribution of wealth"... taxing richer and/or younger tax payers to cover the drugs and other medical expenses of the old.
There are no easy answers here... redistribution is unfair, but NOT redistributing causes problems too.
Once concern with providing medical care for the old is that there is unlimited upside potiential: We may be facing a lot of old versus young issues if technology start to significantly extend lifetimes during this century. Bruce Sterling's novels explore this issue a good bit (Holy Fire and Schismatrix).
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