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I don't hate the US at all, but people like Splum will automatically think I do if I make one negative comment about the way the US works. In the US, it's not only our right but our responsibility to question our leaders.
I don't think the US is going to lose its edge anytime soon, but I have witnessed a worsening of the economic situation under Republican control of the executive branch. Are these two things related? Perhaps, but there are a million other variables to look at. In all reality, the government doesn't have as much control over the economy as people would like to believe, the real economic power lies at the very top of the various industries that represent the US...and at the very top is oil and pharmaceuticals, with a few others vying for top brass (tobacco, media, etc). These select few top dogs have tremendous pull in the government and can virtually rewrite the laws and the very systems themselves, they've been doing it for decades. Ironically, it usually ends up BEING members of the top brass that end up in politics anyways...the Bushes and their oil, Dole and his tobacco, Rumsfield and his pharmaceuticals, etc.
As far as China goes...don't get your hopes up. The country's own self-defeating government will make sure that only those at the very top profit, and the poverty-stricken majority stay poverty-stricken. A world power within the next 20 years? Yeah right...ain't gonna happen...unless the US invades them too and replaces their current legitimate (although crap) government with a puppet government (hey, sorta like in Iraq).
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