Yellow peril politcal add

[Heraclitus]

I think this is silly and slightly scaremongering. China will of course outshine America in the very near future (perhaps 2025) but the decline of the US will be slow and China won't become much more powerful than the US especially since by 2030 their demographic issues will make them a larger poorer copy of Japan.

Genetic engineerin is the X issue here of course but this is something that will only radically change the world order on the scale of perhaps a century not mere decades because of the long time period humans need to mature.

[Al B. Sure!]

That ***** Truman should've let MacArthur nuke China

[Dinner]

The funny thing about that right wing nonsense is China has a much larger stimulus which has worked extremely well. Of course, instead of tax cuts which don't work they literally spent 15% of GDP just on infrastructure.

[Whoha]

By contrast Japan's stimlus didn't turn out that well. Our economy similarly doesn't have the pressing economic need for said infrastructure,regardless of the problems that we'll incur for not having adequate water and power infrastructure. The jobs would be temporary, and the money paid wouldn't stay in this country long, if at all.

[DriXnaK]

It's amazing to me that anyone could be stupid enough even now to claim that the US stimulus was a success. Then again, it's Oerdin, and Oerdin makes the impossible possible.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Amazingly the concept of whether infratructural needs are required seems to elude our Man of Genius O. Hence it may be entirely appropriate for infrastructural spending to bring a 3rd world system into modernity and hence large benefit. On the other hand infrastructural spending should be expected to have a much lesser effect on already modernized economies. Brain surgery this isn't.

Iow what whoa said

[Al B. Sure!]

Some would argue that American infrastructure could use improvement.

[DaShi]

Indeed, there are parts of America that are practically third world: much of the Appalachians, Alabama, and Philadelphia.

[DriXnaK]

I'm all for investing in infrastructure, and in fact, it's desperately needed. It should only be done though as long as unions are barred from participating.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Some would argue that American infrastructure could use improvement.

That arguement can be applied to a number of areas, but give where we are vs where China is coming from the benefits are likely orders of magnitude less. Furthermore our country is more service based than hard ma
nufacturing. I would argue the manufactjuring based economy is far more reiant on infrastructure improvements to roads, docks, airports and rail.