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Cannonpointer » 25 Jul 2014 3:09 pm » wrote: If a capitalist government builds factories for them, and gives them unfettered access to the worlds largest consumer market, and allows them to exploit an endless supply of virtual slave labor, and exempts them from any of the environmental or safety standards which it imposes on factories at home, and provides them with a fleet to ship their slave-made goods, how in the name of Zeus and Thor could they AVOID growing their economy?

Well gosh, let's put it to a simple test. Did the Soviets have a thriving economy? Goods including those reasonably difficult to manufacture that could compete with ours?

No, they made junk that even Soviets didn't want, but bought only because there was nothing else.

Have you told the Premier of the Communist Party that you have designated the People's Republic an emerging capitalist utopia

I'm truly sorry your hallucinations prevent you from reading what I actually write.

- and has he thanked you for applauding the destruction of our own manufacturing base in order to make that happen?

In your glee and satisfaction over "capitalist" China's burgeoning middle class, have you ever felt a fleeting bit of remorse at the decline of our own - and that of our working class as well, in order for that to happen?

Spare me the moonbat-onomics, imbecile.

The US has been hurt almost entirely through our own bad policies; the expansion of government, particularly federal law and regulations.

Most of which was done by Democrats, especially Obama.