USA on a slight economic rise???

The BBC news tonight gave the possible GDP for the USA as 2 percent.

As they correctly tells us despite all whatevers the USA is STILL the number ONE economy in the world.

As they also pointed out it is the mass of small businesses that carry the USA on its back right now.

And there still may yet be many hurdles to jump over in 2012 to see the USA keep moving forward in an upward direction. The USA has still many huge problems.

One concern of course is Europe and the Euro, and if the united Europe can prevent a slam back into deep recession and many massive problems it has yet to fix.

We shall see what 2012 hold for the Western world.
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Britain has promised it will bring in laws to govern its banks and finance institutions in the near future. Of course there was the usual talk from the British Government over such a move, as "There will be painful times ahead." Now finally they are going to do something about their financial situation, things probably that Canada did decades ago, and which the USA if it has any sense (but sense often goes missing in the "political battle between Democrats and Republicans" so nothing much gets done) would do also.
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Iraq - Bagdad - 13 bombs blow up today in different parts of that city, killing at least 6. Yep it will be "hit and blow up" once more in full force by the whoevers, as now the USA troops have gone home. Look for much more horrific violence in Iraq in 2012.
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North Korea has the "son" of the dictator as head guy now that his father just died. We shall see in 2012 how the "son" handles things. Will it be the "same old same" or "time for getting rid of old habits."
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The people in the "horn of Africa" are still in a serious starvation situation. It is heart-breaking to see the poor, sick, and thin children. Here they are on this same planet and we in the Western world have SO MUCH, some of us (like movie stars and sports stars) FAR TOO MUCH. It is profane what some people get paid for the work they do, and with most even more profane as to what they spend all their money on. There should be a law against making that kind of money for that kind of work, but then it would be classified as "communistic."
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Russia is still proving that the same old 60 year space technology is doing just fine and can still take men into space and to the "space station" - and at only about 1/10 the cost of how the USA was doing it, till the Nasa program shut down. Now the USA people have to catch a ride to the "space station" on the Russian rocket. So who really won the space race anyway? Blows me away when I think of all the money the USA has spent in the last 60 years on "space" stuff. I guess the Russians have proved "steady and easy does it" wins out in the long term of things.
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Oh yes did you see the picture the space guys were all excited about? Found some kind of planet 600 light years away, going around a sun, which they think is the right distance away, that maybe, just maybe, just maybe, could possibly support life forms. They think it is the closest thing to our earth they have found so far. And when you see it next to our earth.....it is a laugh, looks nothing close to looking like out earth. But what the mind of some scientists sees with their eyes; all I can say it they must have had too much to drink, and not the orange juice type drink.
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