A bunch of points without any explanations of what caused them. What the heck good is that. It’s like getting the punch line of a joke without getting the build-up. Okay to know, but, where’s the rest of the story?
How did the country get to the state we’re in? That’s the major points we’re missing in the story.
It seems to me that there is an economic inevitability to much of what is happening to the US.
I can't imagine anything other than government interference which would explain how a billion Chinese and a billion Indians would have to accept standards of living which are just a fraction of what we have had in the US.
To the extent that the governments of China and India permit their people to engage in productive behavior, they are going to level the playing field. Until their standards of living equal ours or at least approach ours, there will not be a single thing that we can do to stop their progress. Anything that we try to do will backfire and harm us.
What created the wealth of the US was economic freedom and an economic meritocracy which rewarded the productive and punished the non-productive. The majority of Americans don't believe in that anymore and believe that they can vote themselves into wealth. China and India will punish us severely until the falsity of that belief becomes evident to our starving population.
Unfortunately, I think that is going to take quite a while. I'm concerned that so many Freepers don't get this.