Quote from risktaker:
Good!
It's already the biggest anyway. It has nowhere to go but DOWN.
Companies like Apple & Walmart are nothing but Chinese export shops.
Tax the shit out of Apple products through a VAT tax and you'll see America coming back!
Quote from gettinglucky:
+1. America isn't the Rome of the past that only lasted for how long? Nor, is it the Egypt that was once the center of the world.
The copyright and patent offices are in America. And as long as they remain in America, the USA will remain the #1 nation in the world!
Quote from risktaker:
Several factors came into play in the last 10-20 years in the US which together contributed to the current malaise...
-Arrogant politicians, public
-A "we're #1" attitude
-Crooked politicians and corporate elite
-way too much "prestige" paid to smart asses out of big universities.
-Too much emphasis on "financial engineering"
-Lazy, out of shape population
-Too many programs at state & Federal level making these people confortable enough living on food stamps, etc.
-Top 10% of population needs to pay more taxes
-Penalties should be instituted for jobs that are exported overseas.
I could go on & on but there's a huge list of shit that US needs to correct.
Remember, it begins with YOU!
Only YOU can prevent further demise.
Act today! Put off buying that big screen, Asian car, toy, concentrate juice, plastic gadget, etc.
It's too bad that the politicians themselves can't come out and explicitly SAY this but it needs to be addressed now.
Every piece of imported crap you buy produces several things...
1. Further depreciates your dollars.
2. Contributes to unemployment.
3. Pepetuates a fucked up, consumption based society.
Lazy thinking. If economic prosperity could only be achieved through imbalanced trade, then why are Americans wealthy?Quote from risktaker:
Again, you say Korea/Japan/Hong Kong were very "productive".
Yes, they are very hard workers but their model only benefitted until & as long as the idiots/lazy asses in US/Europe are willing to buy & increasingly buy/finance.
When the dumb masses in the US realize they've been screwing themselves over buy sending all their money to Asia, who are the Asians going to sell to?.
Quote from heech:
What can you do to create wealth, that the Chinese can't match?
Quote from intradaybill:
Actually the Chinese are not creating wealth, they have just set up a wealth transferring machanism with the blessings of politicians of the West.
Good ideas create wealth. History shows that for the most part only the West has created wealth. There isn't a breakthrough, other than gun powder AFAIK, that can be attributed to Chinese or to any other nation in the East. From Physics to Chemistry to high technology basic research, everything has been invented by Westerners. Given this historical fact, they cannot claim a share of the world's wealth.
Wishful thinking. What you wish could be ascribed to some sort of racial superiority is really the product of an incredibly productive European Renaissance. For 1500 years, western Europe was the bastion of religiously befuddled, barely literate nobles and truly ignorant serfs. By every metric, western Europe was no better than the sub-Saharan Africa of today... far out-shadowed by what was being achieved in the Far and Middle East.Quote from intradaybill:
Good ideas create wealth. History shows that for the most part only the West has created wealth. There isn't a breakthrough, other than gun powder AFAIK, that can be attributed to Chinese or to any other nation in the East. From Physics to Chemistry to high technology basic research, everything has been invented by Westerners. Given this historical fact, they cannot claim a share of the world's wealth.
Whatever you call it, riddle me this: what is it about *you* that leads you to believe you (and your children) will be perpetually 5x wealthier than people working twice as hard as you are?Actually the Chinese are not creating wealth, they have just set up a wealth transferring machanism with the blessings of politicians of the West.
Quote from heech:
Why, in 30 years, should people who studied twice as hard as you in school, who have double your knowledge and skill sets, and who work 60 hour weeks earn less than half of what you earn?