fat boy red wrote:one_irish_rover wrote:. wrote:Well, America cant help it if she is in decline and may be second to China in 50 years and even india.
I doubt it. China's culture is generally prohibitive of creativity and innovation. Prohibitive might be the wrong word; it certainly is not conducive to the type of innovative thought that drives technological economies. In school most kids in China memorize facts. India has more potential as a knowledge economy. I would not put much stock into this notion of "American decline." We've been in decline only since Little Georgie took the big chair. We'll come back. America will always be one of the big players, if not the biggest.
Your "Little Georgie" comment betrays an ignorance that discredits everything you say, on this or any other subject.
How exactly has America "been in decline" since George W. Bush took office in January 2001?
Not economically: the American economy has grown at a healthy clip every year since Bush took office; unemployment is low; inflation is low; interest rates are low; the Dow Jones is at an all-time high; and America has by far the highest GDP in the world.
Not militarily: the American military remains the most powerfuil in the world.
So how exactly has America "been in decline" since George W. Bush took office in January 2001?
Idiot.
Sorry lad, but you're the idiot. Bush and the Republican Congress have run up a massive debt, nearly 9 trillions dollars! Double what it was when Clinton left office with a balanced budget, a surplus in fact. That's the explanation for your economic figures -- they're falsehoods when taken in context of a country going ever deeper into the red. That's why our currency is worth little more than half the British pound. I'm not going to waste my time listing all the creative ways Bush has half flushed our country down the toilet. It's obvious to anyone who's mind is not muddled with ideology. But just to shut your gob in your next reply, how about two major wars for starters -- that we're losing -- at 3 billion dollars a week, $440 billion total -- the terrorist are laughing at us, they're winning! Money that could be spent on a more rational foreign and national security policy. Or a loss of American life in those wars equivalent to the 9/11 attacks -- the stated motivation for our "war on terror." Katrina? Half our southern seaboard was washed away for christ's sake! I haven't even mentioned our social or intellectual decline, or the loss of respect and influence (diplomatic or otherwise) around the world, which again is obvious to any keen impartial observer.
So shithead, getting back to the main point, you for one have nothing to worry about China and India. We should keep Bush in for two more terms! Let's make it a lifetime presidency and really watch America soar!
Thanks for making me waste my time you, you moron.
