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Originally Posted by August
How many times have you typed the word "tic" when referring to my country and you claim not to make prophecies of doom?
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Dictionary:
"auf Pump leben" - "to live on tick"
I also do not talk of an immediate doom. But a process of fall, a historic decline, with the chance that due to a variety of imaginable reasons this intensifies and indeed result in acute crisis. For example the day when the US would be unable to get any credit anymore anywhere - that would spell distater for your inner politics and economics. It would not be followed by months of delcine, but immediate riots, uprise on the streets, and storming the banks. Simply what we see in Greece, but multiplied.
It makes sense to remiond us tiome and again that our systems run on tick. And that is no good strategy. Not at all. It's a fall into the centre of the spiral, and it cannot result in anything different than disaster.
BTW, one coudl lso argue that your country indeed already shows signs of its fall. Education system is detoriating. Powergrid. Streetgrid. Job infrastructure. Not to mention finances. Debts equalling the yearly fiscal budget. Indeed, you live on tick, its a fact. Most Western nations do. When you spend more than you earn and live by means you cannot afford, you end in debts. It's only natural. And debts and their interests must be serviced.