What happened that there should be 10 chiefs and only 1 indian?
Somewhere along the way … in the span of my life … the old rule of 1 chief to 10 indians has been upturned. Somehow, making money now consists of getting rich as a day trader or suing somebody else for a non-existent auto injury or conning the public into buying a new super diet pill at $153 per bottle. These schemes are endless and all have existed in one form or another for millenia. It is just this … they are now the dominant means of making a living in our present era. They have gone from 10% to 60% of the GNP. [I’m picking a number out of a hat here to make my point. I don’t know what a true figure would be but it’s certainly more than half by now.] If we are no longer producing goods … who is? And … why are they giving them to us for nothing? The answer is … Mexico, Brazil, Korea, Taiwan China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, C