Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.
To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia.
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
You know, the key issue is that city issues are not to be put in a box and say well, that's what the mayor wants. They're Canadian issues. Cities account for 75 percent of our GDP. If you don't have a plan for cities, it means you don't have a plan for the economy.
Strictly from the perspective of human well-being, the richest-but-warmest world characterized by the A1FI scenario would probably be superior to the poorer-but-cooler worlds at least through 2085, particularly if one considers the numerous ways GDP per capita advances human well-being.
I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.
I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense.
I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a so-called developed society. In that sense, we are outliers. Are we suckers? Yes, but it's not just that. That puts too fine a point on what I am saying. We're not idiots and victims. It's about us as a people, compared with, say, Canadians, believing whatever we believe because, well, we're Americans, we feel this way without regard for what scholars and scientists say.
Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U. S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.
GDP tells you nothing about sustainability
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.
Too much of the income gains go to too few people, even though all of the stakeholders worked together to make their companies successful. By failing to put enough income into more hands, the GDP grows slower and consumers manage to meet their needs by incurring high levels of debt.
If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.
We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit. . . So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore. . . There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?