Posted on 01/17/2011 11:22:28 AM PST by radpolis
Now, let's take a look at China. It certainly has the labor. It has the capital. It now has the fastest super computer that knocks ours into the dirt. It has raw materials. Not because China is full of the raw materials, but because while we have been taking loans, they have been buying everything up all over the planet, everywhere. They've been in -- I think the Chinese foreign minister has been to the U.S., what, twice in the last few years? Maybe? Once or twice? And he's been to Africa in one six- or eight-month period like four times. They're buying everything up, raw materials. They're buying up oil fields everywhere. I know they're waiting for to us lead on global warming. They are buying everything up.
But one thing it doesn't have is entrepreneurship and innovation. It doesn't have those two.
What do we have? Well, we're no longer the labor leader. We no longer have the capital. We no longer have the technology. We're still pretty good on that.
We have entrepreneurship and we have innovation. We're down to two and barely. Our policies today are killing the very thing that we have left: innovation and entrepreneurship.
One of the most disturbing studies that I saw in how many months ago this was -- I can't find it again and I wish I would have pulled it out. It shows that the ability of children now in America to think out of the box is declining. Why? Because you don't have to, nobody pays consequence. Nobody suffers. Nobody has a problem. Necessity is the mother of invention. What have we really invented lately? The government is snuffing things out. China is fostering innovation. They're taking our innovation and they're making it bigger and they're better.
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/glennbeck/transcript/chinas-rise-americas-fall?page=2#ixzz1BJzcW0Gz
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China is a complicated issue.
Any thoughts?
That is not analysis. Not even superficially.
China is a complicated issue. And while Beck does some things well, this is not worth even a jumping off point for the discussion.
Well if you believe that China has the fastest supercomputer, then it’s not fair to say they don’t have innovation.
The other is China.
Gee I wondered if anyone noticed. We started downhill when Clinton signed NAFTA. Hows all that globaloney workin out for ya?
I read a very long article about a month ago regarding China’s demographic time bomb. Wish I could remember the author’s name so I could get a link for this thread.
Yes, there are a lot of rich people in China, who live predominately in the large cities. But, they also have a population over a Billion that live in 3rd world rural conditions. China’s “one-child” birth policy has left them with a population that is largely male and below replacement level population growth. These children are leaving home for the big cities. Throw in the fact that their population is generally older, there will be fewer workers to provide for the social compact either thru a western style Social Security program or that “only child” taking care of their parents.
I am leaving out a lot of information about their productivity (measured as GDP per hour per person) and what it will take to reach American style living standars of our lower class. The bottom line is that the one child policy has wrecked their demographics and will prevent them from ever accumulating wealth before they get old.
I’ll try to find the article.
China is practicing Commie Checkbook Colonialism.
>>then it’s not fair to say they don’t have innovation.<<
Innovation or theft?
I might argue that our decline began during the Tianmen Square massacres, during which Pappy Bush drank toasts to the head Communist murderers. Few people realize that the very first trade give-away’s began on that trip.
Seems they have both innovation and theft.
Theft to steal our designs, innovation to improve upon them.
And have continued unabated. Ross Perot had it right. How about the famous. Go shopping after 9/11. I always wonder why many think Bush was good. He was selling us out. I think it had to do with comparing him to Algor or Kerry.
I feel that people like Freepers think that W was a good president is because his speechwriters slipped barely-concealed Bible quotes into his speeches. A close examination of his actual work shows it to be one long disaster for the U.S. (and I include the War in Iraq/bin Laden’s Getaway in that category). His daddy really got the ball rolling, tho.
And, oh Lord, look what we’ve got in the White House now!
And thats the way it is.
Yeah, where'd all the Freepers go that thought sending 100,000 American businesses to Communist China, while flooding the U.S. with 30 million low wage illegal aliens would end well?
Anyone seen them?
Bet even Perot didn't imagine 100,000 American businesses going to Communist China, India etc....
Wholesale sellout...
Profits regardless of consequences has all but left America dead on the floor.
Zero....... Hi Mr. President. How about this “Taiwan” problem?
HU......... No problem Barry. It goes like this: When we strike Taiwan, you make allot of protestations and bluster and send a Carrier Battle Group. We will fire some missiles at the ships, but we will make sure we ONLY hit a frigate. You then withdraw your ships and proclaim that the PRC is just exercising her rightful sovereignty over Taiwan. We BOTH win!
Zero........ Don’t you mean YOU win.
HU.......... well... Sure, but at least you look SOMEWHAT competent.
Zero........ OK. Mr.President. That’s a great plan. Done.
HU.......... Can you get my Ambassador some Superbowl tickets?
Zero......... Sure. No problem.............
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