You have no clue how bad life was in China, India, Vietnam, etc. before they discovered naked capitalism. China had virtually no jobs for ordinary people. Now there are hundreds of million Chinese who have a place to live and 3 square meals everyday. India had food shortages and had to import food for survival. There was virtually no industrial jobs. After discovering raw capitalism, India has a larger middle class than United States. It is impossible to transform from poor country to a rich country overnight. The rate of progress however is amazing.
In the meanwhile USA is turning increasingly socialist. 50 million on food stamps? We are screwed for many decades to come. Eventually people will wake up like they did in China and India and Vietnam. Give us 40 to 50 years of pain first.
“You have no clue how bad life was in China, India, Vietnam, etc. before they discovered naked capitalism. China had virtually no jobs for ordinary people.”
Don’t assume I have no clue. Those countries had agricultural economies before we build their manufacturing sectors.
“Now there are hundreds of million Chinese who have a place to live and 3 square meals everyday. India had food shortages and had to import food for survival. There was virtually no industrial jobs. After discovering raw capitalism, India has a larger middle class than United States. It is impossible to transform from poor country to a rich country overnight. The rate of progress however is amazing. In the meanwhile USA is turning increasingly socialist. 50 million on food stamps? We are screwed for many decades to come. Eventually people will wake up like they did in China”
Are you failing to see the relationships there? We are on food stamps because we exported our jobs (and associated prosperity). What are we going to do in 40 or 50 years, get those jobs back from Red China by offering to work in exchange for a new bicycle every year? Don’t expect Americans to support capitalism when our industry does an end-run around laws and competition by using Asian coolies instead of American workers; voting for socialism should be expected.
The next GOP President is going to be long remembered. Just tightening up SSDI will push people into work. Imagine people who have a whole series of “diseases” and “disabilities” that prevent them from “working”.
That’s the biggest growth in welfare and the easiest to correct.
I’d like to see his executive office go after Commerce Clause violations at the state, county and local level. That’s where the real trouble and real money is.