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I doubt that India has much of an affirmative action program ---or so much political correctness in their public schools. If Americans must compete with third world countries, we need to end all the government incentives against trying hard.

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Ding ding ding! This is the winner: When the tax and regulatory burden is lower in China, where the party of government is still officially COMMUNIST, what the heck does it mean that we have a supposedly "capitalist" system?

Russia has a flat tax, by the way. In Singapore, entrepeneurialism is almost the official religion. If we ran our government according to our Constitution - if we brought our tax and regulatory burdens back down to pre-New Deal levels, we would kick ass and nobody would have to worry about "them damn ferriners takin' ours jobs."

One poster asked "what about all those government workers?" No, don't outsource them, FIRE 80% of them and let us keep what we earn. That's what will keep people employed in productive jobs here. It was Clinton who promoted the 100,000 new cops thing. Get a clue: cops are now like public school teahcers - unionized tools of PC.