Posted on 02/07/2011 4:20:42 PM PST by WaterBoard
Top Photo: Shanghai in 1990.
Bottom Photo: Shanghai in 2010.
Just an interesting photo of where American wealth has gone to fund the huge building boom in China. Shanghai is the most populous city in China.
The statement assumes that US$ were used to fund the construction, and fails to consider there is more to the world
than America
The statement is without factual basis and represents tunnel vision
In California the glue sniffing governor attends gay pride day, where 50 year old hairy men parade down main street in diapers.....
The building in the lower left hand corner is where all the Presidents of the US have gone to eat dinner when visiting.
I don’t know what it is called, but it must be special because they didn’t tear it down.
In the restaurant you can eat while looking out large windows onto the ships and the river below.
I got to sit in Bill Clinton’s seat at the table, but they loved Bush by far. I was there with a liberal cracking jokes about Bush at the table and none of the Chinese laughed. They thought that it was impolite to joke about even the US President and seemed shocked at the liberal attitude to the President.
One of the ladies at the table whispered they love Bush, he is the greatest President of all time. They said Bush built Shanghai more than anyone else.
I don’t and didn’t agree with Bush’s position on China, he was rolled too many times because he was dealing with 911 and his attention was elsewhere. But to the Chinese that live in Shanghai, there is genuine love for him.
Unlike many here, these pictures do not make me happy..
They do not make me happy, either.
Sad that we have people who support Free Trade with Communist China...and revel at how China has grown...at the expense of the re-distribution of American wealth to Communist China.
Supporters of Communist China are no different than the Walter Duranty-type of people of the 1930’s....who sugar-coated Communism while hiding what was really happening. The Free Trade Communists who support Communist China are just the Walter Duranty’s of our time
Real Americans, and Real Consevatives, do not support any Free Trade with Communist China. It was not too long ago that, if you were so supportive of a Communist nation, you were tried and punished for treason.
My, how we have fallen!
The statement assumes that US$ were used to fund the construction, and fails to consider there is more to the world
than America
The statement is without factual basis and represents tunnel vision
The statement assumes that US$ were used to fund the construction, and fails to consider there is more to the world
than America
The statement is without factual basis and represents tunnel vision
Rooks rike Brade Lunner.
You shop now...It's open all night for yankee
Booooo! I bet environmental impact studies had not been done, citizens committees had not been consulted, the Sierra Club lawyerettes had been ignored, lawsuits had not gone all the way to the Supremes and back down, Boooooo!
“Will you guys stop standing around and boo-hooing? Get with it and help make America proud and strong again.”
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I doubt the problems that beset America have much do with Freepers, we are already,after the self-reliant, American values, REAL free market individuals.
What specifically would you suggest we do when half the population is on board with socialism, and expansion of government, and approaching 1/8 of Americans are on food stamps.
What do you want us to do, open a machine shop?
The builders of this economic miracle are capitalists not Communists. All this reminds me (as indicated in #33) of how building better lives is possible. Abroad. A few years ago, remember, the French built the longest in some category bridge in 18 months. Please do yourself a favor and check how long and for how much has the rebuilding of SF Bay Bridge has been going, with no end in sight, how many squabbles, lawsuits, commissions it took, and for all I know, is still taking. Well, how about the WTC site? We’ve become a self-paralyzed giant!
in twenty years we won’t have replaced the Twin Towers
We capitalist you yankee lazy dog. You go shop now....American farmer fat and lazy....Buy some China yum yum...Take home and eat. You go now.
Wasn’t it a couple of months ago that a high rise hotel in China was fully built in ONE DAY?
Don’t be blaming wal mart or communism. This is all about discipline, and striving for excellence. Chinese students are cut throat competitive to get into the best universities. American students want to tweet about Justin Bieber.
They strive for superiority. We strive for political correctness and diversity. They want the best. We want equality and therefore, stress mediocrity.
China has the best train system in the world. Did you see how they performed in the opening ceremonies in Beijing? Perfection.
dont’ get me wrong. Not a fan a communism. I just cry at what America has lost in it desire to just be “correct”. Look at how we elected this ridiculous joke of a president.
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