Countries that value growth and economic prosperity to generate more opportunity for their people (such as China and India - if you can believe it!) move to adopt and sustain economic policies that favor production, trade and business success. On the other hand, countries and leaders that are more concerned about wealth redistribution, increasing state control over private citizens, and increasing the role and dominance of government (USA in 2009/Obama) move in the opposite direction ...
We're clearly on a course to economic stagnation (or worse) in the USA under Obama and the Democrats, but unfortunately too many of us don't and/or won't face up to that fact yet.
