Posted on 05/30/2015 6:17:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The 2016 presidential-campaign season will bring all sorts of familiar proposals to create jobs in the U.S., but candidates who really understand today’s global economy should highlight a more surprising possible engine of new employment for Americans: China.
China’s middle class continues to grow, reaching an estimated 630 million people by 2022. Those consumers want better health care, world-class education and a cleaner environment. China itself will eventually be able to provide those services, but meanwhile, the Internet makes it possible for China to create and sustain American jobs.
Take health care. In 1994, a Chinese university student named Zhu Ling became mysteriously ill. Other students posted her medical details on the Internet, allowing Western doctors to help diagnose her with thallium poisoning and to save her life. It was a famous early instance of effective telemedicine.
U.S. health-care professionals could provide China with a range of services. China had just one general practitioner for every 10,000 people in 2013, according to state media, and many Chinese are dissatisfied with the quality of the care. “China has very few doctors that can gain trust,” said Feng Xue, executive president of Tianjin Telemedicine Association, a nonprofit organization to promote telemedicine. “The U.S. has a strong brand.”
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Don’t rationalize socialism. I will always not care about subsidizing the following special interest groups:
1. Republican, church-going families with a blue collar income
2. The American companies who provide a livelihood for group 1
Agreed. It sounds like two ‘reporters’ inventing news that doesn’t really exist. But hey, they’re paid to write news stories. They’ve got to have something to write about. Why not jot down some speculation and anecdotes, and dress it up as news?
I don't care that you don't care for blue collar families. Your opinion is a very tiny drop in a very large pond. You asked me why I thought the article in question is BS and I gave my reasons. I don't care if you accept it or not. Apparently you are clueless as to what I wrote.
Good post! I agree there is no “FAIR” trade. How can there be fair trade when US is running hundreds of Billions in trade deficits every year? Our country is being sold down the river and most do not even realize it.
But.......if we force a “balanced” trade with China and others, our standard of living will take dive, because we have “unions”. Consumers in US are able to bypass union wages by buying cheap foreign goods. Therefore before we can have a fair trade, we must have free markets without artificial wage fixings demanded by unions.
You are right. Your post wasn’t socialist. I guess I wanted an over the top way to say I disagree with you.
And my apologies to you for coming of angry in my reply to you. The socialism reference got me.
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