Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.Yes, it's just too hard to get anything done when you hold all the keys to making and passing laws, gosh darn it!
One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.So, there you go Melkor, China, we should be like them! Why? 'Cause noted, uhm, person, Thomas Friedman says so, that's why!
He quotes Joe Romm from Climateprogress:
“China is going to eat our lunch and take our jobs on clean energy — an industry that we largely invented — and they are going to do it with a managed economy we don’t have and don’t want,” said Joe Romm, who writes the blog, climateprogress.org.He neglects to say that they're also eating our lunch in building coal power plants, and nuclear power plants, and would be eating our lunch at producing oil if they had any! Yes, there are some advantages.
Anyway, if we have our troll reading, here's the perfect example of Jeff's Liberal Fascist! This retard is a highly respected journalist. Now you know why Print Journalism is dying.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109541
ReplyDeleteChina is also eating our lunch when it comes to domestic oil production. All thinks to the environmentalist.
"While the U.S. State Department has issued a permit for a multibillion-dollar pipeline to carry crude oil from Canada's tar sands to U.S. refineries, environmental groups are threatening to impede its construction. Some are trying to delay the project for years by putting it in the middle of the court system. Meanwhile, the Chinese are in the process of spending billions of dollars to develop the resource and possibly deny the U.S. a secure strategic source of oil.[...]While the environmental battle rages in the U.S., the Chinese, and soon the United Arab Emirates, will be spending billions of dollars to lay claim to the Canadian tar sands themselves"
Just another example of how the EM is undermining America.
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ReplyDeleteHe seems to be lamenting that fact that our dear leader can not do as he pleases.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that he refers to communist China as enlightened. It is a communist nation that is has realized that communism in not an efficient economic system. China has a huge population that must be provided with jobs and economic prosperity. If this is not met, then China's communist government will face up rises of the Chinese people; so this is why they are using a mixed economic system with elements of state controlled capitalism. China is quickly overcoming America on the world stage.
China stills has human right issues and is not a free people. If China were really enlightened, they would allow freedom to rule the day and have unfettered capitalism.
Overall, this does say a lot about the media and shows how it is quickly becoming a mere mouth piece for the government.
I used to respect Friedman.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether the comments here are to attack China (which is good, because the people need to shift their view opinion of China from trade partner to foe) or Friedman. Maybe I should make my long awaited anti-China post....
China's intentions towards the West are not all good. China is a major world player; but from what I have read, it will never completely surpass America as the world's leader. I don't know how treating China as an enemy will impact the world's economies. Would it be similar to the effects that tariffs had before the Great Depression?
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