Obama Wishes U.S. Could Be Like China
Author: Michael Eden
About the Author: The Party of Kennedy is NOT the Party of Pelosi. The Democratic Party has radically degenerated into a socialistic and postmodern perversion of its former place in American political thought. In place of Judeo-Christian values they embrace secular humanism; in place of a strong national defense they embrace a reliance upon internationalism; in place of a strong family they embrace a radical abortion agenda that increasingly includes outright infanticide.
I can't sit idly by and watch the culture war pass me by. It is time to choose sides. As Joshua 24:15 puts it, "choose this day whom you will serve."
Polls have shown that the more committed one is to (any) religious belief, the more conservative one tends to be politically. One’s views toward religion profoundly affect one’s commitment to political, social, and moral issues. In my articles, I seek to argue in favor of a religion-friendly view of culture, morality, and politics. Read more from this authorHot Air jumped all over this stunningly revealing statement from Barack Obama. I figured I might as well pile on:
Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business you’re starting to think, “Beijing looks like a pretty good option.”
Ed Morrissey had this to say by way of comment:
Well, as long as you forget about the oppressive Communist government and the lack of freedom and the Internet filtering and the re-education camps … China sounds really groovy.
Does Barack Obama understand the nature of the Beijing regime? 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.
Unfortunately, most of what the cameras see is just a facade, as Dale Franks points out at Q&O: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. Obama has given every indication of gullibility, first with his pledge to conduct presidential-level diplomacy without preconditions with regimes like Iran, Cuba, and North Korea, and now in declaring China the place to do business. Obama isn’t at all ready to lead this nation; he’s not even ready to run a business, with thinking like this.
Barack Obama’s statement on China betrays a fundamentally stupid as well as fundamentally amoral understanding of both the economy and the world.
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Considering Obama’s past associates, his policies, and the groups( American Communist party) that have endorsed him, is it really any surprise that Obama would think China is such a great place? Or that he would like to turn the US into another China?
I think if you asked him, and I say this in all seriousness, whether China or America were closwer to ideal, that he would probably say ‘America’ and think ‘China’. Or he could just be completely clueless and say ‘China’.
If Barack Obama were in the cast of “The Wizard Of Oz,” he would be playing the role of the character that had straw in his head instead of brains.
And where his testicularity should be.
Clearly you are just a bunch of mushrooms,kept in the dark,China’s economy is booming and if it wasn’t for China your beloved Bush could not have funded the war in Iraq.So dig the moss from your ears and open your eyes there is a real big world out there for you to discover!
Groetzinger,
A writer can tell when someone didn’t bother to read beyond the headline. You didn’t. First of all, both you and your golden child ignore the incredible misery and abomination that any “booming” has been built upon. Second of all, you don’t seem to notice that any prosperity on the part of China is based upon coal and oil and carbon emissions up the whazoo. Third, you don’t notice that a whopping majority of China is practically in the dark ages.
But incredible ignorance never stopped liberals from thinking he was a genius.
But thank you for helping to bolster the real liberal agenda that the United States should be using its citizens like slaves to create prosperity for a politically-connected few; that “global warming” was nothing more than a cynical power-grabbing ploy; and that the “working class” are really noting more than peons to be exploited by the intelligentsia. That’s what’s going on in China right now, after all. More people should be aware that liberals really love Stalinism more than any other political system.
Just damn. Stopped by to check the news and found my favorite response to a liberal yet.
I think you spelled Conservative wrong,liberal.It is the conservatives that create prosperity for the connected,tax breaks for oil and large companies under the heading good for the economy.Allowing illegals a free pass all for cheap labor and global warming is just in our minds and made up.
No one said China had it all right but are heading in the right direction unlike what has been going on here in the United States.
Fools like groetzinger are so shallow. They are just lucky they live in this great country so they can spew their idiot thoughts at will, if they were in Red china, red russia ect.. and tried to speak their mind, they would be long gone. Why do these types live in a country they so dearly hate? If this place is so rotten why don’t they get the heck out? If we could have not had these inner cancers slowly under mining our country, just think how much better off the USA would be. These maggots will eventually be the rott that helps destroy this nation from within.
groetzinge,
Dang, you are determined to keep pushing a communist, centrally planned, totalitarian, despotic state, aren’t you? That’s heading in the right direction?
China is building its economy at the expense of the very poorest, who are little more than slaves. And they are pushing out so much pollution that its people can hardly breathe. The support of liberals such as yourself for China demonstrates what Stalinists you people truly are.
The amazing thing is, you’re probably a smart liberal, even though you clearly are only capable of thinking in slogans. The dumb ones must be truly amazing indeed.