I’ll be in LA in about 2 wks, for a short couple of hours. I need to bounce out at 9pm, and jump back in for an early morning flight to Tokyo. Praying this bus to Chicago that apparently gives me 4 hrs b4 my flight out of O’hare is enough time. I’ll have to jump the subway and buzz through security.

I’ve got a friend in Kyoto going to her family summer house in Hiroshima, so maybe I’ll have a tour guide. If I need a tour guide to find a 120,000 sq m park in the center of town, then maybe I need better glasses. I hear Osaka has 3 things. The ccp consulate, Osaka castle, and the “slow boat to china”. I hear they’re net bars are an upgrade compared to what I was staying in China. In Japan a person can rent an entire cubicle with a comfy chair to sleep in.

When I get back, I’ve got a plan rather than to run around like a chicken without a head. Tom always says, “You always miss the opportunities and are never here when there is one.” Well I hear a new visa law going into place next July that will be enforced and could be a bad thing for some foreigners. Not only that, but Iv’e got a friend that had a nice offer from a wealthy chinese man he’s known 6 yrs when he left Detroit. He gave up the offer and chased tail to Suzhou where his gf busted his laptop from jealousy over his multiple friends on QQ. He’s heading home in december because he’s afraid to work without a degree and he wants to double up on school. So I’ve got a small window to go there, drag him by the shirt collar, and talk to him Midwestern to Midwestern to get his rear to Changsha and explain to his friend why he’s chickening out and let me meet him as I might want to work there. My friends over there miss me more than the ones here. We had fun and visited many places over there, the ones here only want to play computer games for a few hours before leaving back to their wives or beer kegs.

I said “current” because I’ve built the machine and the gears have begun to turn. Last few times she sputtered and belched, but this time I’ve learned from my mistakes of the past. It was hard work getting here and took quite a few old shirts that were sacrificed to the grease of the machine, but she runs much better this time.

February 13, 2012, the NYT reported, “As part of his budget, President Obama on Monday proposed an $8 billion Community College to Career Fund, with the goal of training two million workers for well-paying jobs in high-demand industries.”

“Mr. Obama has for years sought to expand resources for community colleges, the main source of education and job training for most low-income Americans. In the American Graduation Initiative he announced in 2009, Mr. Obama proposed to bolster the work force by producing millions more community college graduates over the next decade. But instead of the $10 billion for community college that the administration’s original plan called for, community colleges got just $2 billion for job training.”

However, now Obama is trying to get it off the ground again during an election year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/education/obama-to-propose-community-college-aid.html

Too Big to Fail. One of my favorite documentaries. Amazingly, we did that. Not a terrorist, not a rogue nation, we create that problem. We barely managed to fix it. Unfortunately, if it happens again, we are more than likely s.o.l.

China’s already preparing their middle class. My estimate is the elite and middle class will be along the coast. The middle and lower class will be mixed inland. Already China’s made a statement that they have 2 problems. First, the beautiful coastal cities everybody visits and attracts foreign tourists are all heavily polluted from the major factories. Secondly, the provinces of mid-western China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Xinjiang, etc) are not very profitable because they’re basically sleepy farm villages. In China, being a farmer is opposite of the American farmer. The crops are mainly used for food, where as our corn and soybeans are found practically everywhere and drives up the value of such crops. Since China is stuck with poor farmers that can barely pay the bills, the government plans to move all the factories inland to those provinces and provide work to these peasants. It’s a win-win situation for them, even though I’d hate to see the terraced farming, amazing old villages, and valleys turn into a massive factory kicking out plastic tupperware by the hour.