Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, August 22, 2008 3:08:58 PM
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:
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.”
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.
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.