American Women

[Dickhead]

I dunno about the rest of this shit but I guarantee you:

"If you are, however, a lupine businessman type whose only interest is making big bucks and who has no time for soulfulness, humour, culture and romantic aestheticism, don’t go to Russia. Your choice should be Chinese girls. From China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Or the Vietnamese ones. Even the Japanese. These do not like jokers or funny, friendly guys, as a rule. These are seen as not worthy of respect. They like sullen-looking, glum and busy fat cats. These will be running business with you, working hard and being happy with you the way you are. You will find no gold diggers among those as a rule- mostly good business partners and good wives. Just make sure you are really successful and are making good money. And working your rear off for 12-15 hours a day."

this is not what Latinas are looking for.

[Goga Fung]

An interesting article-advice by an Aussie guy about dating Russian women, how not to get gold diggers and how it compares to USA and Asian women, and which(Russian or Asian) women one should date and why.

From his point of view, women from different places are different and I think he makes a lot of sense and it can be applicable to Latin America women too, although some guys here might get offended and disagree.

http://www.expatfocus.com/expatriate-russia-experiences

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There are gold diggers there, but about as many as in the US or many other countries. However, if you are a money-oriented person, and think that you will impress people with your money- you will attract just that- a person who will use you for your money. Isn’t logical? Many Americans are money-driven, and they think that if they are successful businessmen and are into careers, Russian women will like them. In other words, they approach Russian women the way they would approach American women. I am this and that and I have this car and this house, do you like me now? Sure, a gold digger will be the one who likes you. Then, do not complain when you get taken for a ride.
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However, if you go there and do not make adjustments, are always in a hurry, always talking about business and money, do not respect their ways, and do not learn Russian, you will only find the woman that is interested in a money-making man- in other words, “an American woman from Russia” so to speak.
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If you are, however, a lupine businessman type whose only interest is making big bucks and who has no time for soulfulness, humour, culture and romantic aestheticism, don’t go to Russia. Your choice should be Chinese girls. From China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Or the Vietnamese ones. Even the Japanese. These do not like jokers or funny, friendly guys, as a rule. These are seen as not worthy of respect. They like sullen-looking, glum and busy fat cats. These will be running business with you, working hard and being happy with you the way you are. You will find no gold diggers among those as a rule- mostly good business partners and good wives. Just make sure you are really successful and are making good money. And working your rear off for 12-15 hours a day.
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[Chocha Monger]

It seems like good ole Gov. Sanford was mongering all along before acquiring his Argentine fucklet. Investigators are checking his travel records. It should be interesting to see what they discover. ISG members may have been "blowing off steam" with the governor without even knowing it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...omen-mistress/

[Chocha Monger]

Today a Canadian friend sent me this:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0...ng_sex_arrests

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A group of teenagers misunderstood a woman's screams during sex and, thinking they were stopping an assault, beat a 25-year-old man in her bedroom, police said....
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Next time think if you wanna have sex in North America

It's interesting that it was the 16 yr old girl who rounded up the lynch mob. That is the typical AW heroine mentality. She didn't even think of calling the police. That poor woman had to be saved from the evil prick who was fucking her to death.

[Goga Fung]

Today a Canadian friend sent me this:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0...ng_sex_arrests

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A group of teenagers misunderstood a woman's screams during sex and, thinking they were stopping an assault, beat a 25-year-old man in her bedroom, police said....
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Next time think if you wanna have sex in North America

[Chocha Monger]

I have to say after having lived almost a year in Colombia now, I find many things about the USA more "third world" than here. You couldn't drag me back kicking and screaming at this point. I really don't get what people like so much about the US. I just thing they are delusional and seeing things as they were a long time ago.

I find it really silly the way people can point accusing fingers at people on here "well, YOU only make $2k a month so your opinion can't possibly be worth anything".... does anybody actually BELIEVE that?

Bango,
I don’t believe that you can value someone’s opinion based on their income. If it is one thing that I learned in doing business in the US it’s that relationships have a lot more to do with job positions and salaries than intelligence or knowledge. I saw hippie with a severe case of meth mouth given a director’s position based on his relationship with the account manager. He, by his own admission, did not finish high school because it was more fun playing hooky and getting high. However, he was given the job based on his “experience.” His salary was more than what was paid to bright young minority managers with college degrees. They didn’t have the same relationship with the boss. After a few months the hippie failed miserably at his job. The client demanded his removal and the account manager sent him off to another location in a much lesser capacity. Had their relationship not existed the hippie would have been shit canned. So income doesn’t always serve as a metric of value when it comes to opinions.

[Bango Cheito]

I have to say after having lived almost a year in Colombia now, I find many things about the USA more "third world" than here. You couldn't drag me back kicking and screaming at this point. I really don't get what people like so much about the US. I just thing they are delusional and seeing things as they were a long time ago.

I find it really silly the way people can point accusing fingers at people on here "well, YOU only make $2k a month so your opinion can't possibly be worth anything".... does anybody actually BELIEVE that?

[Chocha Monger]

Here is a picture of the woman in her pig costume:


http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12738000

Quite realistic! I could not even tell that she was in a costume. Lots of American guys could be banging furries everyday without even knowing it.

[Dickhead]

Here is a picture of the woman in her pig costume:


http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12738000

[Dickhead]

Wow, thanks for enlightening me. That sounds awesome. I will be on the next plane back because most AWs would look way better if they were dressed up as a pig, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus.

[Chocha Monger]

THIS shit:

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12738000

Furries? I admit that was a new one on me. Felching was bad enough.

Dickhead, you've been in Argentina too long. Furry sex is big in the US. The fur can really fly at these furmeets. There was even a CSI episode featuring furry sex and violence complete with semen stained fur samples. These furries have orgies that take advantage of the anonymity provided by their costumes. You should look up some furries on your next visit to the US. You can dress up as a big red bull.

As for the story in the article, you'd have thought that the boy's mother would have figured things out when her son dressed up as a lamb and a 45 yr old woman in a cougar costume came by to pick him up.

[DJ FourMoney]

Either way and while I don't think one book blows up any one train of thought, it does highlight some "problems" with American Policy outside of America.

Clan is from the "Sink or Swim" - "I got mine, go get yours" heavy lean toward Libertarianism mindset.

I can accept that I guess and when (not IF) we get a strong public option for health care since my current employee(rs) won't provide such benefits or I deem them too expensive considering wage cuts and tripling of stock price since the latest CEO took over (Mostly done on the backs of wage and hour cuts) last year.

Whatever the point is, it all ties into how AW act and many of them still want a "Free Ride" when they won't hold up their side of the agreement nor would they sympathize when hours are cut, benefits cut and wages are pushed down.

[Capt Ajax]

Capital
Has Rising Inequality Destroyed The Middle Class?
Thomas F. Cooley, 06.03.09, 12:01 AM ET

Everyone is worried about the American middle class. The decline of the American worker, and thus the middle class, is a key trope in economic downturns, amplified by the bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler and the loss of so many well-paid jobs in the manufacturing sector. For many commentators, this feels like the last straw. How much longer, they ask, can the U.S. weather the increasing gap between rich and poor without permanent damage to the social fabric?

I think the chart below sums up the fucked up nature of unbridled(lax regulations) American Capitalism.

[Dickhead]

I don't even think it's true that Latin America is "shifting to the left." It is wobbling randomly and cyclically from right to left as it has always done since the collapse of colonialism. Colonialism was a rigid and structured system and its collapse left a vacuum to be filled by opportunists and charlatans from both right and left who seized power when the opportunity presented itself. In doing they were arguably only trying to best provide for their families and loved ones, especially if future generations were to be considered.

Essentially most Latin American politicians both now and historically remind me of the Senegalese and Angolans selling fake watches on the streets of Buenos Aires. Say and do what you need to do to feed your family. The politicians just earn better wages due to starting from a higher socioeconomic level.

[Clandestine782]

Clandestine I have read "Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins and wasn't surprised at all by what the United States has been doing in conjunction with the IMF and World Bank, especially in South America.

Why do you think there's this titanic shift to the left down there???

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/02/mid...ner=popstories

Capital
Has Rising Inequality Destroyed The Middle Class?
Thomas F. Cooley, 06.03.09, 12:01 AM ET

Everyone is worried about the American middle class. The decline of the American worker, and thus the middle class, is a key trope in economic downturns, amplified by the bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler and the loss of so many well-paid jobs in the manufacturing sector. For many commentators, this feels like the last straw. How much longer, they ask, can the U.S. weather the increasing gap between rich and poor without permanent damage to the social fabric?

But just how bad is it? One of the main problems in the debate is that opinions are advanced that are not backed by data. Interestingly enough--at least for an economist like me--the data tell a rather different kind of story.

Last year, someone sent me a book they thought would interest me. It was a good idea in principle, because the book dealt with labor markets and the plight of workers in the U.S. I looked forward to reading it, but it didn't take long before I threw it against the wall in exasperation. Instead of a data-driven analysis, it was a series of searing anecdotes about workplace injustice, low-paying, difficult jobs, bolstered by "facts" that were either incorrect or interpreted in a crazy way.

Clearly the individual costs of job loss, the tremendous difficulties of lives spent in poverty, should not be diminished. But anecdotes can't substitute for clear thinking.

One assertion in the book I just mentioned was that labor's share of the economic pie had sunk to its lowest level since 1929, with the companion assertion that corporations and CEOs were seizing a larger share of the economic pie for themselves, leaving labor greatly diminished. This is simply not true. Another assertion, this time true, is that American workers toil more hours per year than their French or German or other European counterparts. The author interprets this as evidence that our workers are being squeezed harder and that work is more brutal and demanding than it need be. That's not necessarily the case. A more orthodox--and to me, persuasive--explanation is that U.S. workers receive stronger incentives to work more hours.

Let's consider in more detail labor's share of the pie. This can be addressed using the National Income and Product Accounts. Despite the many emotional appeals to the contrary, it turns out that labor's share of output has remained remarkably constant at roughly 70% from 1950 through 2008. This calculation includes an estimate of the fraction of proprietors' income that is imputed to be labor income. (Slight variations in how one calculates it might lead to slightly different numbers but will not change the fact that has remained roughly constant for more than 50 years. There is some short-term variation over the business cycle, but no trend--and definitely not a decline. Robert J. Gordon of Northwestern has made similar observations in a number of papers.)

So, if labor's share isn't shrinking, what's going on? It's not the size of the share overall, but rather the inequality of distribution that has changed. Emmanuel Saez (this year's winner of the John Bates Clark award given to the best economist under 40) and Thomas Piketty have documented the evolution of income shares using data on income reported for tax purposes from 1913, when the federal income tax started, to 2006. Their data report the number of taxpayers and their total income and tax liability for a large number of income brackets. They combine this information with census and aggregate income data to show the evolution of incomes over time.

This is a wonderfully rich piece of work that will reward a careful reader. What emerges is a different kind of narrative that describes income changes of the top 10% relative to the bottom 90%. The share of income earned by the top 10% declined from a peak of nearly 50% in 1928, the height of the Roaring '20s, to a plateau of around 35% until about 1982. After that the share of the top 10% took off, reaching nearly 50% by 2006.

Even more interesting, as Saez's graph, below, demonstrates, is that it isn't even the top 10% but rather the top 1% where all of the action takes place.

0602_chart_565w.jpg

Now the narrative is less about the declining middle class and more about a gilded age of the super-rich. The middle feels as if it has lost ground because of the extraordinary wealth accumulated by the very, very few. But that suggests that the pie is a fixed size, and that is clearly not the case.

What triggered the gilded age of the late 20th century? There are extensive arguments in the literature about the impact of tax cuts, about extraordinarily high executive compensation in top management, and more. But the recent research does not seem to support these two as major causes. The most compelling argument for this dramatic increase in income has been technological change. Those with the human capital to take advantage of the new technology gained, and continue to gain, at the expense of those who don't have it. This is the "winner take all" phenomenon. In the 1920s, cutting- edge technology meant electrification. Hence the spike in income at the very top level. The fact that inequality has increased in most of the richest countries is also consistent with this explanation.

There is an important lesson for policy makers here. The psychic uncertainties triggered by perceived inequity need to be addressed because they can undermine the social consensus. But the public needs to be brought to an understanding that income growth is not a zero-sum game, and that participation can be expanded, based on investment in education and in human capital. Policies that stifle innovation in the interests of averting social discord are short-sighted in the extreme. On the contrary, greater innovation--and higher levels of educational investment--are what will prick the bubble of class envy.

Thomas F. Cooley, the Paganelli-Bull professor of economics and Richard R. West dean of the NYU Stern School of Business, writes a weekly column for Forbes. He is a contributor to a new book on the financial crisis entitled Restoring Financial Stability (Wiley, 2009).

Here is an article on the point of the vanishing middle class (about which you gave no evidence other than a brief mention of having read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman.")

As for the reason that Latin America is shifting to the left: I would say that they have always been prisoners of their own stupidity. None of this is new. Instability and governments in a status of flux are the status quo there (1) and what makes you think this is any different to what has been that way for a long time (2). Why is Europe shifting to the right? Do you think that their wealth gap is getting any less?