China and india are building whole new cities for millions of people. The U.S.cant even repair new orleans????
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China and India are paying their workers a few dollars a day.  These countries are not worth modeling our actions on.  China executes 3500 people a year for crimes as simple as shoplifting.\n\nAmerica is far from Bankrupt.  But we did take a HUGE hit when the dot com busted up the stock market a few years ago.  America not only lost several millions of tax revenue, but had to give millions more in tax rebates to individuals who lost investments.\n\nI think it is extreamly hypocritical to complain about American foreign policy while enjoying the rewards that policy provides.  Do you use oil?  Do you buy shoes, clothes, and other products made overseas?  Do you want your country that has been formed by millions of immigrants to stand idle when horrible things are taking place in their former countries?  Why do so many people complain about 2500 soldier deaths within the last 5 years when in that same time period more than a half million Americans have been murdered, died in alcohol related accidents, and lung cancer, just to name a few preventable deaths?\n\nMy question is why are Americans ruining their own lives while riding the media bandwagon telling us to blame our leaders.\n\nAmerica will survive and will do it helping (and hurting) many other countries along the way.  We will learn to judge our actions on a larger scale (think centuries instead of years).  And it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better as we stretch and learn.  America is still one of the youngest countries on the planet.
336701
Believe it or not the Chinese are making it work, and work quite well. With their one child per family and population control, they have started to create a society of geniuses, scholastically. They also have America & Russia working for them right now to industrialize their Country through America & Russia's un-controlable greed, and capitalism. Setting back and waiting was the obvious right move. America owes them trillions of dollars, and China id using that to control the trade industry of the World now. It's America's greed to slave labor that America can't provide that has been destroying our economy in the last 10 years. Outsourcing is going to be our ruin.
779669
There's sadly only about 10-12 percent of actual US built things!\n\nI buy USA always, but the odds are against us!
752098
China and the E.U. already are superpowers. India will probably be a superpower by 2050 or 2075. \n\nAs for the chances of them "overtaking" the U.S., they're slim. China and India have major cultural, political, and economic problems to sort out, and the European Union will need to see a drastic shift in the supernational culture.\n\nThat doesn't mean it's impossible... the U.S. has made a colossal strategic blunder in the amount of money it's borrowed to finance the Iraq War, and it will take a generation or two to recover. It's possible that China could attempt to exploit that, with the likely result of pushing the EU to the top of the pile.
364443
yes and no. the yes part is that they definitly need help rebuilding, and if you remember that the US  spent 7 years rebuilding Japan after Hiroshima and Nagaski. and look at japan today. the U.S is the richest country in the world and Japan is second and Germany, another country that the U.S helped rebuild, is third. so the countries that the U.S helps rebuild are doing very well, thank you very much. the downside is that innocent civilans are being killed, and i dont support that at all.
108727
If Americans would only wise up to the inbalence of imports vs Exports we are importing way to much and from country's that buy little in return, what kinda global benifit business plan is that? one where USA comes out short! Boycott all products for China,Japan,Indoneasia,India Etc they must buy more from us then we from them to win the economic battle! It is that simple or you get your butt kicked look at Detroit!Hell ya we need to bring back manufactoring base here and pay workers wages that are prosperous. exterminate the nay sayers who want it all for their greedy old money asses!
180998
china's too big.  they were always having civil wars.  japan was already a much more united state.  you need strong, united states to impose the disciplines that industrialization required.
862898
The debt and deficit have no peer in the problem of economic waste. There is a contant danger of increasing interest rates ballooning the payments and every dollar is a loan from other countries who could stop lending us money and squeeze our economy. The Chinese are very aware of our deficit problem, and no one wants to address the problem. They own 40 percent of our debt and they are flooding our markets with Walmart goods. They are also attempting to capture the oil markets we depend on, this is a tragedy waiting to happen. We are not supporting our education system to compete with other countries who are producing a superior work force. The engineering crisis is untenable, India is producing most of our engineers and taking American jobs. You can not compete in the global economy without a superior educational system. Economic collapse is what killed the Soviet Union and we are following their example.
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Some of the things (since 2000) can't be repaired.When you destroy and sell off the environment, that's it.Our economy,(I don't care what the g.o.p. say) was ahead in the ninties by at least 400 billion.Now the debt we have buried ourselves, and whored ourselves to China and Japan, the u.k. even Canada has a stake in us,is going to take I'm afraid our children to dig out of this mess.Not to mention womens rights,our basic freedoms and everything else they have slapped us in the face with.I wish a third party could win, but the odds of that are about as good as bush really being a christian!
316345
The Chinese are becoming a big threat to us militarily, economically and technoligically speaking. I just read in the news that the US Gov't gave the highest number of visas to China...Why? To get on their good side of course! The Chinese gov't has been building their military up big prompting the US to also spend more on defence. We are making new jet fighters and destroyers. Once again, we may find ourselves in an arms race like with Russia in the 80's.
481972
thats bcos they dont know wats happenin around them.America aint the only super power.China and India have an army that is twice as big as america's
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I don't agree that the American government is unwittingly doing so. I believe that they are doing so as part of a broader agenda to keep their status as the only superpower in the world. \n\nTheir fling with India is to act as a check in east Asia to the rise of China. Historically, India has a better relationship with the US than China did. Thus as Asia's second most populous country, the US would want to promote growth in India to act as a counterbalance to that of China. India was meant to be groom as a strong competitor for China in order to slow down the rise and threat of China. However, in doing so, they damaged the relationship with Pakistan, so is crucial if they ever want to stem out terrorism in Afghanistan.\n\nAs for the middle east, the Bush government was trying to stabilize the oil market by attacking Iraq. However, Bush failed to consider the backlash or such an actions. I believe Bush did not forsee that such a war would be polarized into a religious war and have such great public outcry against the Americans. In short, he messed it all up.\n\nIn the midst of all the rumbles in Asia, Bush failed to take  actions on the rise of leftist leaders in his own backyard, South America. Trouble would rise from within S.America, and that Bush would scramble to put out the fire. In doing so, asia would once sink back into pre-Iraqi war state of relation. Natural cycle would eventually sort out all the rubbish Bush created for us. :)\n\nHowever, you have to strike out strong democracy as on the the key elements to make the world safer. The America government is proclaiming to be soldiers of democracy. It is this very idea that G Bush is using to attack Iraq after no WMD was found. I dont see how it makes the world safer when democracy is the war cry of a facist. :)
94367
America has become the pariah of the world: arrogant, selfish, self-centred, ignorant, pseudo-fascist, careless of world opinion, disregarding global warming, ignoring international law, greedy and ugly. The future lies with the East: China and India. It will take more than just ditching Bush and his criminal friends to change things. In the meantime, international hatred of the USA will drive it even further into militarism and prejudice.
1141827
They need to fix their own country.\nOur goverment is crooked.\nWe have are own problems and poor-thousands of them\nWe have overpopulation-there is no more room-you think me all want to live an apartments in the city.
650901
we already have welfare, food stamps, government housing, and medical care. there shouldnt be any other special programs. new orleans has been taken down in the past by hurricanes, it will happen again. it is a stront city, it has rebuilt on its own in the past without the help of the government. i lived in texas where rita went through. i lost almost everything as far as possessions go. i'm not accepting handouts from the government. i moved, life continued on. when the weather dictates that you evacuate, you dont just sit there and then expect compensation for your own lack of listening. i say the government should completely back out of rebuilding new orleans and let it do what it needs to to rebuild itself. people with money will invest, it will come back bigger, better, and stronger.
774889
I don't know if it should be rebuilt the way it was. Not to be cold or anything but what I am trying to say is. Is it really smart to rebuild that city the way it was? I mean the city is a disaster waiting to happen. Perhaps some of those neighborhoods would be better returned to their natural state. I am all in favor of building and development, but rebuilding there does not make sense. I say ask the government to declare eminent domain, and make the area a park or something. Oh and notyou311 NO area has LOTS OF OIL!
421384
Well, I hear, don't know if this is true, that China is presently re-creating NY City.  For the Olympics.  Cool huh, I am sure it must be out of the wilderness.