Hands off the gains of capitalism!

An indispensable attribute of the New Year's Eve in our country is such a funny ritual as summing up the past 12 months plus preparing - as a seasoning for Olivier salad - a forecast for the coming 12 months. Alas, it is impossible to avoid this, just like avoiding your own funeral; not all, but for some reason many believe that the processes are determined by the calendar and the change from the 31st to the 1st, and nyears to n+1 themselves affect something. Be that as it may, it is customary to balance the results by these dates and make plans for the future. A funny custom - if you think about it, and harmless; however, in industrial quantities it does not make you laugh, but causes irritation. We have to flee from the stream of New Year's analytical forecasts. With hope I go to the Echo website - but here are the results of the year with versions of the future: http://spydell.livejournal.com/479023.html Both at night and under the moon I have no peace! Oh gods!

…Analytics and forecasts, like Olivier salad, can be of low quality or of high quality. Just like Olivier salad, analytics with forecasts are insidious. Sometimes you look at a dish and it’s so appetizing; If you try it, what a disgusting thing this jellied fish of yours is! Same with analytics. And forecasts. For example, here there are all the external attributes of quality: noble scientific numbers, a graph, foreign words in abundance - it would seem, eat, people, eat, chew to your heart's content. But that's until you take a closer look. And when you take a closer look, you understand that such nonsense should be safely thrown into the trash, because all this was prepared from expired products in the Kremlin propaganda kitchen.

In this hellish kitchen, dear Russians are preparing various delicacies of the second freshness for the New Year; but the best thing the local chefs make is noodles, which they hang on the ears of everyone who turns on the zombie box at 9 pm on the first button. For some reason, the cooks who run our unfortunate state are convinced that noodles can rally dear Russians around something. Or against someone. So, in any case, it is said in the cooking recipes, known since the times of Suslov chefs.

Since the number of positive examples in modern Russian reality inevitably tends to zero (like the GLONAS satellite - to the bottom of the ocean), all that remains is to feed the Russians something “about enemies”. Soon America will die! - important, throughout all 45 years of existence, announce the announcers of the “Time” program on New Year’s Eve and after. Kerdyk to your America! – Danila Bogrov authoritatively confirms. Kerdyk, kerdyk, kerdyk to the Pindos-Americans! Soon their economy will collapse! The dollar will be cancelled! Hurray, comrades! – the soldiers of the invisible front exclaim joyfully.

Oh, I don’t want to upset anyone; On New Year's days the belief in miracles is so strong, but there will be no mess in America in 2013. Just as it didn’t happen, despite all the prophecies, in 2012. And in 2011. There will be no economic catastrophe either in America in particular or in the West in general. At least in the foreseeable historical future. You can juggle numbers as much as you like, prove that unemployment is high and stagnation, and God knows what kind of misfortunes - but one cannot fail to note the following: in the USA there is justice; The US has a market economy and institutions that protect it. Actually, nothing more is required.

Our local “analysts” like to savor individual little things, but forget about basic macroeconomic things, such as, for example, the rule of law, which provides an absolute guarantee of private property. Therefore, in America it is profitable to work rather than steal. Therefore, in America it is beneficial to use your talents as efficiently as possible. That is why America comes up with all sorts of things that the whole world then willingly buys, all sorts of iPhones and iPads. And our great-statist statists are tapping their texts on keyboards, albeit not made in the USA, but using American technology. And they type their nasty things using the bourgeois MsWord. So why should the American economy collapse in 2013, if it is quite competitive and produces in-demand products that have no analogues in the world?

This, of course, is offensive - why hide it. I’m really sick of the fact that in the States, a thousand bucks a week won’t surprise anyone, and most of my fellow citizens consider a salary of $1,000 a month almost decent. I grind my teeth with envy. Damn bourgeois! However, reason suggests that the problem is not with the Americans, but with the incorrect Russian structure of life, which constantly provokes poverty for the majority and the demolition of the roof from the insane luxury of the minority. (They go crazy because they have nothing more to want - just like yesterday was written about today).

Maybe we should try the enemy’s weapons in 2013? Maybe we can create democracy, the rule of law and live like people? Hands off the gains of capitalism!