Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Because rising numbers of people in this country want it that way. Otherwise they wouldn't elect those who facilitate this act of national suicide. Everything we need to know about America's future will be told by how the November elections go.
Answer: We are in the process of being sacked by Third World conquerors.
One thing I admire about the Chinese (all their other faults notwithstanding): Every move they make is based on ONE question: “What’s in it for China?”
China is still a command economy mainly controlled by the Government. Maos efforts have merely been turned in a different direction to make the country (not necessarily the people) rich. No business gets done without input or approval by a raft of bureaucrats. Politics controls everything. Most businessmen, in fact, ARE the bureaucrats. Therefore, corruption is rampant. This is why after only 20-25 years of “reform” China already has one of the most unequal wealth distribution in the world.
We should admire the individual Chinese’s thrift, focus on family and value of education, but they have developed these over the centuries as a survival mechanism against rapacious Government. There is very little in Chinese economic planning that the USA should copy.
China has a world of problems including a massive,restless peasant population, a rapidly growing demographic of elderly, and a state controlled economy that could pop anytime.
Ping for later.
This guy says we should copy the Chinese? Well, perhaps in actions of Self Interest.
I need to read it more and digest it. If he is one of these morons who says we need to run our government like the Chicoms in a bunch of other ways (as I have heard more than one statist liberal opine) then I’m gonna load my Internet Shotgun, both barrels.
Progressives love altruism and empathy.For them, it is an end in itself.Self-sacrifice is the primary moral virtue. And it is destroying America.
Firstly, because all of the reasons everyone here will readily provide: our government’s slouch towards socialism, greedy unions, and so on. But more importantly, because China has a lot of room to prosper. Most of her population is out of Europe’s High Middle Ages at best. Also, and relatedly, they can prosper on the back of quasi-slave labor, because they are communists, and because as I said above the people are stuck way backl in time and welcome any advancement with the sort of relish that Americans welcome their third trip to McDonalds in one day.
The Europeans are in as bad a shape as we are. What will they use to buy the exports?
The Chi-Coms are nowhere near having a domestic market that could support the 400 million or so dependent upon U.S. and other export sales.
What about the 800 million rural Chinese who have been left behind?
What is China without useful-idiot technology transfers, FDI, and EXPORTS?
What is there to admire about this..
"According to World Bank figures, nearly 500 million Chinese people still live on less than $2 (£1.40) a day. The rural poor feel that the profits from China's economic expansion have passed them by. . . Communist Party's model of growth could soon collapse unless it allows China's 800 million rural people more of a say "
800 million of 1.2 billion.. about three-quarters? That's like 225 million here? NO THANKS!
I'll take the good ol' U.S. Y'all can have the Chi-Coms' economic "miracle."
If they stopped buying our treasuries we'll stop buying the Chi-Com and useful-idiots' exports -- we'll suffer economically -- for a while -- but we'll have massive job creation as American entrepreneurs rush to provide the products.
The Chi-Coms will have revolution and the useful idiots will lose everything -- they were going to lose anyway as Deng's NEP had no intention of allowing them to stay in China. I bet.
Leadership?
A more fitting name for this article would be: “The Mind vs. The Heart”, becaue if anyone needed any proof of which is the way to prosperity, this article highlights those differences.
Bzzzt! Wrong answer. The $400 million will pay for more missiles to fire at Israel and explosives for little girls and boys to strap to themselves.
“free trade” and globalism.