You read too much propaganda. Most of the Chinese people I know have 3 kids. The one-child rule is a rule of taxation. You are taxed depending on the number of children you have.
If the first child is a girl, you can have a second child without paying a tax. The next child you have to pay a tax equal to 1.5% of your income. A child after that, the tax raises to 5%.
China is a Communist single party government. It is not free. But, on a day to day basis it IS freer than the USA is.
The Internet blocks Facebook because the Chinese government does not want the USA government to have the information posted on facebook (routinely uploaded to NSA servers). Same with u-tube. It is different than the USA, and I miss many things about the USA.
But do NOT sit there, as a person who has never visited China, and tell me that the USA is freer. IT IS NOT.
Today I chewed a betel nut. Cost me about 60 cents. Illegal in the USA. I am going to eat dinner at a restaurant and have a beer and smoke some cigarettes there. You can’t do that in the USA.
I’m a wild and crazy guy. When I ride in a car, I don’t put on my seatbelt. You can’t do that in your land of the free, can you? After dinner, I’m going out to play snooker at the local bowling alley. I won’t be carded or asked to see my age. Can’t do that in the USA.
My point is that Freedom is a day to day event. You either experience a free life or you don’t. That is my point.
I live in China and I have three kids. What about the single-baby rule? Two weeks ago I went to Guangdong and hunted deer using a full automatic AK-47. You can’t do that in the USA. You don’t know what you are talking about. You just repeat the mindless nonsense printed in American media.
Open up your eyes, and listen to what I am talking about. You don’t believe me. Fine. Live your fantasy. Many Germans thought Hitler was fantastic, and paid the price for their blindness.
China is NOT NOT NOT free. But, my point is that China is freer than the USA on many fundamental levels.
Very true, and I'm afraid your analysis is correct.
Someone posted film footage (color) of VJ Day in Hawaii. There were all kinds of folks driving around without seatbelts, people piled on top of moving cars, etc. All I could think while watching that footage is that, today, those people would be ticketed and/or arrested en mass for violating any number of "for your own good" laws.
Pathetic what we've become.
Very interesting perspective! Thanks for taking the time to put forth such information.
I know for a fact we are no longer a free country, and now, like our first wookie, I am no longer proud of the USA.
My major problem with China is actually my major problem with any country with a strong central government.
Without exception, when a government, organization, business, church, union, gets too large they become dictators in their own right.
The Founders knew this and did their best to keep our federal government small and we have ignored them.
Our biggest mistake and the one that will bury us has been to allow government to teach our kids. It is amazing all here on the FR who will rail against government this or government that, send their children to government schools and expect a good outcome. BRAIN DEAD!
How on earth can we expect a good future when we allow power hungry government types to influence the ultra susceptible minds of our children from Pre-K to 12th grade and then send some of them to communist infested universities.
No wonder ALL of the media and most citizens are completely ignorant of the brilliance of the Founders and why the country use to be so great and why it now sucks.
If anyone reading this is serious about putting this country back on the path of limited government then do all in your power to keep your kids/grand kids out of public indoctrination centers and do your best to defund these communist institutions. ANY other choice will be contributing to your own enslavement and certainly to a very dark future for future generations.