This is a very bad and very dangerous policy"
Am I getting you correctly?
Right now the US GDP is about a fourth that of the entire world's. In 1950, it was more like half. There are many who'd rather we turned back the clock to the days when Europe was rubble and Japan was radioactive, but I don't.
Relative parity ain't worth a bucket of spit. The whiners in the third world may gripe about how rich Americans are, but their doers join us so they can get rich too. The doers know that they're better off when their neighbors are rich. That's also why the American movers and shakers want the rest of the world better off, because generally, when the rest of the world is better off, we are too.
The big question is this: would you be willing to accept a doubling of your income even though your neighbor's income tripled? My preference is that I will work to better my loved ones' well being even if it (horrors) makes others better off too.
But there are many who suffer from covetousness so badly that they'd rather starve than see their neighbor benefit. That's not your position is it?
But long-term trends were helping Republicans anyway. The defection of the South—America's most populous region—broke up the old Democratic coalition. In 2002, Republicans won the South by an even larger margin than in their landslide victory of 1994. The rise of an investor class (half of Americans own shares) benefits the party, because middle-class shareholders tend to back Republican causes such as privatising Social Security, the federal pensions system.I think there is another mechanism at work. The article points out how, over time, our nation's wealth is growing. The stereotype that the Republicans are the party of and for the rich and the Democrats are the party of and for the poor has one true aspect, namely that the Republicans benefit when there are more rich and the Democrats benefit when there are more poor. One who is cynical about the Democrats (like me) might suggest that each party works in its own self-interest, and as such the Democrats have a vested interest in destroying wealth and creating more poor. But they are bucking the trend; our country continues to get wealthier and more comfortable. And the fewer poor there are, the worse it is going to get for them. This is the emerging Republican majority. Democrats have long thought that demographics pointed in their favor. They are wrong.
What happens when the playing field is level and what is laughingly called our allies and friends can mount just as good a military machine as we can and we find ourselves on opposing sides of a war, like is going to happen in Israel for instance?
I don't consider it my duty or obligation to build the economies and power of what has proven, without a doubt, to be a world full of ingrate nations. France and Germany could still be standing in rubble and it would certainly be to our benefit as they have both proven to be ungreatful, back stabbers. Germany sending it's minister of defense to China to whisper in each other's ears about how to stop us from putting up a missile defense system.
What makes you think for a second that an economically equal Germany will not join forces with China? Are you naive enough to really think, after starting two world wars, that Germany's spots have changed? To pump up Germany's economy we contracted out our sub building to them, when we wanted to sell subs to Tiwan, Germany said no way. So now we have no control over who's military we choose to build up? We attempt to protect our steel industry and the World Trade Organization rules against it's own laws to unfairly slap us with sanctions and fines.
Have you ever heard ONE SINGLE WORD of gratitude out of any of them? My hearing is not bad, I have yet to hear anything out of Europe and the rest of the world other than we are evil and we never do enough and will never be able to do enough to satisfy them other than suicide. The suicide of leveling the playing field and placing ourselves in a position of weakness in a world full of anti-Americans.
They can all root hog or die as far as I am concerned. In fact I prefer they do, it builds character not to have everything handed to you. It's time to cast off the false duty and obligation placed on the American taxpayer that is no where contained in the Consititution. It's time for Americans to be compassionate to America and Americans.