I See Dead People

And Salvation!

The USA doesn't make much anymore.  Our TV's come from the Far East and that doesn't mean Newark.  Most of our cars are shipped in from the same Far East or even Canada.  We don't make most of our drugs, including crystal meth.

We have trade and budget deficits that make Fannie Mae look solvent.  We have transferred most of our non-Bourbon wealth to China.

Who doesn't want any more of our dollars or T-Bills or -Notes or -Bonds, steroids or not.

The Loonie in Canada and the Wallabie (if that what they call their formerly-80-cent-Dollar) in Australia are worth more than the US Trillion Dollar Bill with TB0's winning grin on it.

But, now, that dismal story is over.  And do you know why?

China.

Yes, that place with 1.gazillion people.  They've got a huge problem and we are the very large answer.

They have dead people.

So? you  say. Here, we call it n+ stage ObamaCare.  Every country has...  Oh.

That's right.  China, by virtue of having all those live people, has an overwhelming domestic problem.  According to USA Today, 9 Million burials a year.  Burials.  The Chinese are very traditional, respectful people and now they have the money to bury their loved ones instead of clandestinely scattering ashes on North Korea.

Only, all that money doesn't buy cemeteries.  Those things take up a whole lot of ground.

Hello.  China.  Far West.  Lots of gournd there.  Ever see Wyoming.  Hell,Virgina's got lots of tobacco-less scrub just waiting to grow all Mandarin.

So, America sells some of its from-sea-to-shining-sea subsurface clay to its bereaved friends in the Far East.  Think of the mortourism(tm).  How about outside Vegas?  It's not like they'll be building houses out in the desert for the next hundred years.  Hotels, funeral homes, Ghost Whisperer theme parks.

Headstone manufacture... okay. Curb your enthusiasm.  But all the service business, what we do best.  Or only.

And, the best part, for TB0 and the Chinese Fed (honest, they call it that but more graphically):  We'll take all those US Government Bonds piled up in Beijing filing cabinets as payment.  Happily.

At a 32% discount.

We're America.  We're not dead yet.