it has single-handedly created Chinese exceptionalism. By 2020, China is going to have more interstate highway miles than the U.S. (gawd, that hurts!). It has just created the world's largest dam and reservoir. It will be using the moon as a space station before we do. It's economy is going great while ours is in the pits. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our bridges are collapsing, our highways are chunked, our airports are closing down, and our kids are getting stupider by the hour. Our healthcare system is now 16th in the world. All I can say is that somebody's economic theory is totally befukled. I wonder who that theory belongs to.
It's certainly less affected by the recession, but China's economy is quite poor overall; the CIA World Factbook lists it as #97 out of 192 countries in terms of GDP per capita. (The USA is #12.) China is also extremely carbon-dependent, with the #176 out of 180 worst GDP to carbon emission ratio (the USA is #81). Even worse, China has a number of serious problems that will catch up to it soon, like its shameless currency manipulation and its thin, thin facade of government stability. Besides its alarming rate of greenhouse gas emissions and its annoying currency manipulation, we have little to fear from China.
And now Borders Books is going out of business. There goes one of the joys of life - wandering around the book store, finding unexpected, interesting books, and getting them. I used to take my grand-kids to Borders each time I went up to visit & we had a great (if, for me, expensive) time.
The Three Gorges Dam is an environmental mess. It actually is creating extensive pollution. On a different note, we should be following the initiative of China by developing new large-scale infrastructure and improving the existing bridges, highways, etc. We should also be adopting a business mentality when dealing with relations in Africa. For instance, China is currently providing job opportunities for South Sudanese. I am not advocating pro-business policy, or "let a business-man run the government" attitude, but an economically practical foriegn policy that takes into account the economic needs of all nations, and develop relations with them accordingly. Furthermore, we should also be looking into an initiative to revamp our energy sector with more efficient forms of renewable energy. China over recent years has been investing in all forms of renewable energy because they create a never-ending cycle of job creation.
Why does it hurt? We already have those now...and we didnt need 5 billion people to make them. According to who? We already went to the moon over 40 years ago, and we did so with far crappier technology than China has right now. Yeah, that must be why it is only rated at a AA- while America's is still AAA. Even if we are downgraded to AAA- or AA+, we will still be ahead of China. - http://www.standardandpoors.com/rat...torId=1221186707758&subSectorId=1221187348494 - LOL Here at the Colorado ranch our highways and bridges are fine. Here in Colorado our airport is open for business and doing fine. Yeah, lets ignore the fact that America has the best higher education in the world. Even China sends its people here to be educated. Where does China place? LOL
>>>Because the automobile and the open road constitute the American dream, not the Chinese dream. Next thing you know, Chinese drivers are going to be whupping our NASCAR gods.
Make that about 3x the population, and we are creating poverty at a much faster rate than China. Pretty soon we'll be equals.
We already have more and better with less than 1/4 the population...it will be 2020 before they even catch up to us. And even then they will still have over four times times our population...so they wont "really" be caught up even then.
Well, China needs more, right? They need to move 4 times more people around. It's like bragging that the U.S. has more miles of highway than Denmark. Well, one would hope so. That does make the U.S. "better". It's merely logical. Iceland needs fewer roads than Germany. That, in and of itself, does not make Germany superior. Iceland would look silly with thousands of miles of empty roads. China's roads are essentially 100% full. It's insane. So they are building more roads. And good for them. So? When you make your list of what makes a country great is big dams on it? I have no idea. Seems like a waste of money to me, but whatever. Their economy is growing rapidly. But that does not mean it's "going great". A vibrant economy is not defined solely by how fast it grows. Trust me, if you had to be randomly tossed somewhere in a country and you get to choose the U.S. or China, I would strongly suggest you pick the U.S. Even though you may wind up in Alabama. We have older infrastructure. Some needs repair. Some does not. But things are not "collapsing". No one is running in fear from our bridges. Their infrastructure is newer. As one would expect given that they started really building it out 25 years ago. Well, that's true. We have a terrible K-12 education system. Have you ever been to China? I've been there numerous times. I do not even need to look it up in order to tell you China is well below 16th.
You have a registered practicing Cardiologist who has no idea how to perform resuscitation or to give heart massage. He gives anaesthetics in peoples homes without an anaethetist or life saving equipment. He has more diplomas and certificates on his wall than the Rev Anarchist. He 'had no concept of time'. He gave someone an anaesthetic then left the bedroom where the man lying in the bed was killed by that anaesthetic. He is a practicing cardiologist with various practices and is in debt??? In court he shows no emotion and looks very strange on camera. He is still practicing. Someone please explain??????
Source? Hilarious. I have never driven across a bridge in the US that I thought would collapse. LOL! Hyperbole FTW!
China is becoming a beacon of capitalism. If they would just end all of their entitlement spending altogether and privatize all of their infrastructure, then they'd be even better. In the meantime, we can lead by example by privatizing all of our infrastructure. Surely, the improvements in efficiency are worth paying 10 different tolls on the way to work.
I thought the US was built on slavery: where did they get slaves from in China then? I suppose Al Capone was Chinese - certainly sounds it!
