Its a great game people like to engage in – writing about how America’s fundamental flaws doom us to second-rate status in the face of a new challenger who has really, completely and absolutely figured it out and thus cannot be stopped in their surge to global dominance. It seems to me that our elites like these stories – fits in with their absurd world view that some how, some way, the United States is too flawed to deserve global supremacy. Obama is just the perfect expression of this attitude.
Over at Foreign Policy Gideon Rachman gives us the latest installment in this “America is doomed” meme. Its got all the usual nonsense about how our new challengers – the Chinese – are that clever and how our problems of maintaining our position are insurmountable. I do recommend reading it because it is good to know how these people think. But it is all utter nonsense.
Now, to be sure, we have made a hash out of our nation right now. We got off track and have bankrupted ourselves by a combination of government profligacy and extremely short-sighted economic thinking. But the genius of America is up to the challenge of this – we have, thanks to our Founders, a governing instrument which allows us to conduct a revolution with out all the killing and destruction usual to such events. We can, if we choose, simply change back in to the America which became globally dominant. And we can do it in a few years from “go”.
The reversal which would not restore but maintain American supremacy involves getting rid of those policies which have made it progressively harder to make, mine and grow things in the United States. We also need to adjust our welfare programs to make it certain that any job out there will pay more than any welfare program – except for those absolutely incapable of work, public support should be just enough to keep body and soul together. And, finally, we’ll need to rid ourselves of a political correctness which allows foreigners to remain foreign even after they are long resident in the United States.
These are not easy tasks, but they can be rather swiftly done – and once done the unlocking of American creativity would lead to such domestic growth as to stagger the world…and, as the merest by product of this, kill off not just any Chinese challenge, but any challenge from any where. You see, China hasn’t risen high because they’ve done things better than us, but because we’ve hobbled ourselves and essentially handed our wealth over to them. The race was between an Olympic gold medalist and a 90 year old man using a walker…but the gold medalists bound himself hand and foot. Take off the bindings and we can walk to the finish line miles ahead of our nearest competitor.
China is a sad joke of a nation – but the sadder joke is how people in the United States actually believe it when China announces 8 or 9% GDP growth. For goodness sake, China is ruled by a corrupt oligarchy which is determined to show that it is on top of things…you think that you’re going to get the truth out of such people? Even a little bit? No; they are going to put on a show and try to make you believe that the dazzle represents the reality.
People who fall for dazzle have done just that – fallen for the dazzle. No one has the foggiest notion of what China’s real GDP is; what China’s real inflation rate is; what is the state of China’s financial system…we can only gather hints and clues, and one big clue is the massively absurd prices people are paying for property in China’s biggest cities…prices like that are not the result of a rational economy thumping along in good standing…they are a sign of an economy over heating on fiat money and bad debt. We’ll see where it winds up.
But whether China crashes or keeps going along, the only way they can surpass us in power and wealth is if we let them. If, that is, we continue to hobble ourselves and refuse to get to work and do what we know we must do.
As for me, I have confidence in my fellow Americans – the TEA Party and the 2010 election results show that in spite of a Ruling Class willing to roll over and play dead, the people are still on fire to be Americans: hard working and dedicated to building a better life for all. While we have Obama in office we won’t be able to address the fundamental issues which bog us down…but with a GOP House we can at least make a start on it, and once we do get back in to the White House – provided we elect someone who understands both what ails us and what needs to be done – then we’ll take off an leave everyone in the dust.
And then we can wait for 2020 when we’ll be warned that we cannot stop the Indian juggernaut from burying us…
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