There are many job titles that pay well, some exceptionally well. One of these starts with a capital M. Many with such job titles expect to be paid very well, or at least as well as others with the same job title with a capital M. If M1 is getting so much, M2, M3...must also be getting the same because their job titles all carries a capital M in front. Should this be so?
In the corporate world, not everyone with a job title with a capital M is paid the same. The reasons are simple. Not all jobs are the same even if they carry a job title with a capital M. Some are bigger jobs, bigger responsibilities, bigger, harder and more important decision making, etc etc. In the corporate world, not everyone with a capital M job title expects to be paid the same. It is commonsense, not rocket science.
Why should there be such a mentality that when one carries a job title with a capital M one can demand to be paid the same as everyone with the same job title that has a capital M in front? Every job is different and everyone can see the difference without even having to think much. Some jobs are very demanding, some jobs are very cushy to the point that the incumbent could have hardly anything important to do, or nothing to do, and has to think very hard on what to do.
What is the root cause of this Entitlement Mentality? Oops, it is not Entitlement Mentality. They just deserved to be paid well or else they will not want the job, or they could get a better paying job elsewhere? Or there are special reasons to pay them obscenely well?
The new definition of what is seen as good economic growth is like rediscovering gravity standing on its head. The American economy achieved a 1% growth and this is called rock solid. Oops, oops, Biden claimed that it was closer to 3%. Caveat, he is having dementia, so take his words with a big pinch of salt. He is telling his own truth with the election around the corner. And to make the American economy even more solid, it is accompanied by a 7% inflation rate. Not sure how true is this number, but be sure the Americans never lie. Ignore what Pompeo said about 'We lie, we cheat, we steal'. He forgot to add, 'We bomb and we kill'.
Apologies, I got carried away with Pompeo. In the Americans' new definition on economic growth, anything 1% or lesser is excellent. So many American crony states and the poor states in EU are doing real fine and can pat themselves on their back to declare proudly that their economies are doing fine, with 1% GDP growth or less. Just follow the Americans and you will always look good even when you are down and out.
And who is down according to this new American version of economic growth? Russia, and of course China. China's economy is collapsing and beyond repair. At 5.2% growth in a US$18 trillion economy is called bad. All the media of America and American crony states, and their unthinking reporters, are repeating the same narrative as gospel truth. It is the end of the Chinese miracle. China would never catch up with the American economy. The American economy would remain as number one, forever, no more fear of China. Someone said, when China's economy is collapsing, the Americans did not have to do anything against China. China will just be history without the Americans having to start another war. No need for more sanctions and trade wars.
And the Chinese leaders are all incompetent, battling corruption and power struggle. The housing industry has collapsed, the Americans are winning the chip war, the EV war, the 5G war with 6G coming. The Chinese are cowering in fear. And the Americans are going to the moon 'again', to be ahead of the Chinese. To prove this, the Americans had just landed a rover on the moon, on its side! Oops, still working fine, still can send messages back to earth, battery still working. Bet the Chinese cannot beat such a feat. There are at least 4 Chinese rovers running around on the moon, but all unable to do what the Americans had done, landing on their sides.
The fake Chinese by the name of Gordan Chang must be celebrating. 'I told you so, in 2000, that China would collapse'. And look at Xi, unable to come up with good ideas to raise the GDP to 9 or 10% like before. Trump or Biden would definitely do better, more solid growth of 1% or less on the way.
MAGA! 1% growth is great for the economy! 5% is bad! Repeat after me, bananas.
PS. Britain, Germany and Japan are already in recession. The fake economy of the USA which Biden claimed to have grown 3% is likely to be in recession as well. When Germany is in recession, how many EU countries would also be in the same predicament? And the western media demonised China's 5% GDP growth as ailing economy! How many western countries would be blowing their trumpets if they could achieve a 3% growth?
This statement may shock many people. How can that be? Only China and Indonesia have high speed trains? What about Japan's Shinkansen and France's TGV? It depends on the definition of high speed trains. China, France and Japan have claimed top speed exceeding 400kph and 500kph. But these speeds are not the normal operating speed of commercial trains.
Japan and France operate their commercial trains at a speed of 320 kph. Indonesia's Jakarta Bandung train cruises at 350 kph. China's Shanghai Maglev train runs at 431kph. If high speed train is defined as running at 300kph and above, 4 countries qualified, ie China, Japan, France and Indonesia.
If high speed train is defined as commercial trains operating at 350 kph and above, only China and Indonesia qualified.
So, if we used 350 kph as the cut off speed for high speed trains, China and Indonesia are the only two countries in the world that operate at this speed for their commercial trains.
3 min of what the evil warmongering US is all about. A truth that blind believers would not want to see, would not want to know. War and killings are the rights of terrorist state of USA
"Sure, the People’s Republic of China does not have a good record of
accepting competition to its power. The Chinese Communist Party,
particularly under Xi Jinping has become even more monopolistic in its
attitude to power. However, in this case, the Chinese have a point. The
world is large enough for America and China and while China’s economic
rise has been impressive, the fact remains, the average American remains
richer than the average Chinese and whilst China’s military has been
“modernizing,” it’s been modernizing from the 1950s whilst the American
military is preparing for the space age."
I came across the above quote in the TRE. Unable to confirm the author.
The first sentence came straight from the CIA playbook on anti China propaganda, just like debt trap and all their jingoistic jargon to deceive the ignorant and unthinking. China joined the WTO in year 2001 under American and western terms and rules. China has been playing by their rules and doing exceedingly well. So the white men are accusing China of cheating, not playing by their rules. This is standard American way to accusing the victim of crimes committed by the Americans. China is practising genocide when the Americans committed the biggest genocide in human history in North America against the native Red Indians, and now against the Palestinians and Arab, Latin American and African people. They massacred millions of Pinoys during their colonial occupation and rule. Another example, demonising China as aggressive and wanting to conquer the world, when the Americans already done it, calling themselves the American Empire, the self appointed policeman of the world ie they own the world, and fighting wars everywhere when China is not involved in any wars. And calling everyone terrorists when the Americans are the world's number one terrorist state. Enough said.
The Americans cannot compete with China and accusing China of bad record in competition. Only the unthinking would take this America lie as the truth without checking. Now the Americans are attacking China with all kinds of sanctions and trade wars to bring China down. The Americans have good records of competition? Joker! Who is blocking China's rise? Bad losers!
In terms of national power, China has not threatened any state or wanting to start a war with any state, did not call any state its enemy or a threat! Only terrorist states make this kind of mischievous remarks and lies. In the South China Sea, in the Sino Indian borders, it is the other parties that are threatening China with their wild claims. Little countries that only became nation states after WW2 claiming Chinese land and islands that were already part of China centuries ago, under the provocation of the world's number terrorist state and wanting to start a war with China. Mickey Mouse state bullying China! China is very patience and is holding back from slapping these trouble makers. Who is not accepting competition against its world hegemony? Who is clinging onto a unipolar world and misbehaving very badly around the world, fighting wars, killing and bullying small states, and committing genocide against the Ukrainians indirectly and the Palestinians directly?
And the point about Xi becoming more monopolistic. Another unthinking comment from the author. Who is and has been monopolising the world, treating the world as its Empire, policing the world with its military forces? Who is challenging this unipolar world, American hegemony, when China is pushing for a multipolar world? Which is more monopolistic, a unipolar world or a multi polar world? And the twit contradicted himself by agreeing to China's point that the world is big enough for America and China. Actually BRICS and China's position is that the world is big enough for everyone, not to be monopolised by the American Empire.
Agreeable to the claim that the average Americans are richer than the average Chinese at face value, minus the debt they respectively owed, mortgage debt, car debt, credit card debt, school fee debt, national debt, who owes more and is more in debt? Anyway, it is a matter of time that the average Chinese would be richer than the average American under the present trajectory, in both nominal term and ppp term, just like the GDP of America versus the GDP of China.
And the last point, the Chinese military has been modernising but far behind the Americans that are now preparing for Space Age. Really, when the Americans can't even land a rover properly on the moon today. Oops, oops, they landed many astronauts in the 1960s and 1970s, the American said so. Any national museum or VVIP still holding on to the 'moon rock' presented by the Americans, or quietly threw them away?Just keep believing the Americans are very advanced in space technology, but unable to land a rover on the moon. And the Americans did not even have a space station of their own, unable to even fly their astronauts to the ISS and have to hitch a ride on Russian rockets. These things did not ring a bell? Heard of quantum physics, 5G, 6G, where do the Americans stand?
The Americans are still trying to figure out if it is safe to send men through the Van Allen Belt, still trying to develop a working rocket to take human to the moon. They lost all their blue prints that could take men to the moon. Now they are starting from square one. And China is planning a manned station on the moon by 2035. And Americans are preparing for Space Age? With what? Have they started to write their blue print on Space Age? Or they are asking Hollywood to write the script? Made In Hollywood!
Today, every action and comment made by the Americans about the moon is a confirmation that the Americans have been lying, that they have not been to the moon.
Listen to another 3 minutes of the ugly truth about terrorist America that no one wants to know. America is such a beautiful peace loving and friendly country. When would all the unthinking wakes up from their fentanyl induced stupor?
An interesting 20 min discussion on the war plans of the Americans to dominate the world under the American Empire.
Trump is still trying to make America great again. Biden has tried and the result is out there for all to see. Xi did not make such a proclamation but talked about the rejuvenation of the Chinese Civilisation and making life better for the Chinese people and the people of the world ... in a common future and shared destiny using a win win formula.
In the latest two session Congress in Beijing, the crux of the matter was China's economy and territorial integrity. American critics and bananas are only concerned about power consolidation by Xi as a double edged sword, implying something ominous going forward for China. None of them would talk about the future of America under a demented old man or a scoundrel whose integrity has been questioned in the American courts. Either of these two men becoming the President of America did not imply anything ominous, no double edged sword. Just a normal process of the great American democratic system, and the American Empire will continue to rule the world without a hitch.
In Xi there is a technocrat with a cool head steering China on its path towards rejuvenation through economic development, but always conscious of the threat posed by the evil Empire and the jesters in Washington, all out to contain and derail China's economic growth. For the latter, Xi is clear on what to do and the Chinese defensive capability is not neglected but persistently upgraded to meet the forces of aggression. China's defence industry is second to none, making progress in every field, churning out warships, warplanes and war machine like making buns.
Trump or Biden would have their hands full, also making a lot of weapons for the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and for more wars they are trying to start in East and South East Asia. And they will be spending all efforts and resources in sanctions and trade wars, all kinds of wars, instead of rebuilding a crumbling American infrastructure and economy with a 1% rock solid growth paired by 7% inflation. Their strategies are similar, put down others to make America great again. Throw all obstacles in the path of their enemies to trip them or to slow them down, and America would be great again, chucking along fine in its old ways. When all the competitors are cut down, no one would be able to stand up to make the Americans looked bad. America can live happily with ageing 4G, ICE motorcars, antique train network and fantasise about going to the moon 'again'.
Between Xi and Trump/Biden, who would be more successful in their missions to make their respective countries great or better? Who would be seen and respected as national leader and international statesman, and who would look like rogue and gangster chief?
Xi believes in Win-Win formula. I win, you also win.
Trump/Biden believes in America First. I win, you lose.
