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Obama: envies communism, scolds America
Down the spiral he goes....
| quote: | | OBAMA: Everybody's watching what's going on in Beijing right now in the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are all vastly superior to us now, which means if you're a corporation deciding where to do business, you're starting to think Beijing looks like a pretty good option. |
Yeah, they don't have any environmentalists to deal with! They don't have any big government regulations. They can put up cheap buildings. They can put up all kinds of cheap eye candy infrastructure. But this guy is salivating over a totalitarian system and the power that the Chinese government has, and he is using that to say they are a better country than the United States. This is breathtakingly politically stupid. There are just certain things that you're not going to be able to pass off to people. China, a better place to live than the United States? Well, maybe if you don't mind pollution controls that don't exist. Maybe if you don't care that people are employed at slave labor wages. And maybe, if you don't care that construction standards in the countryside are so shoddy that they allow of collapse of thousands of buildings, including schools, so that when an earthquake hits it kills tens of thousands of people....if that stuff just doesn't bother you, then I guess maybe China does look pretty good to you.
The reason that the government can afford all of this spending is that they control the means of production and the wealth of the nation. They can confiscate what they want at will and spend it where they like. And in Beijing, they spent it where the cameras would be pointed. This guy got all of his information from watching the olympics.
| quote: | The Chinese infrastructure that so enthralls Obama remains decades behind that of the US. What infrastructure China manages to build, however, gets its energy from oil and coal, not from wind and solar. China has become the highest emissions nation in the world and shows no sign of slowing itself down over concerns about anthropogenic climate change. In fact, the air in Beijing is so bad that outdoor Olympics events almost had to be moved.
Meanwhile, the regime where Obama thinks the world would love to do business maintains itself through brutal oppression. China blocked access to the Internet for international journalists despite promising to allow full access to reporters for the Games. They arrested reporters covering peaceful protests. And these are the actions they took while trying to make themselves look good.
If Obama wants us to build up American infrastructure, he can start by ending the flow of American wealth overseas for energy. Create hundreds of thousands of jobs by building the American energy infrastructure through drilling in the OCS, ANWR, and interior shale formations. Lower capital-gains tax rates to encourage more investment and generate more revenues (and jobs). America needs a President who can see past the facades. |
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