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2010-10-22 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2010-10-22 05:18|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 "Would a ChiCom college seminar really focus on the perils of big government? I ask you."

Things change. I remember telling an incredulous German back in the early 1980s that Russia should not be underestimated, that given the proper circumstances it could once again become a capitalist nation, albeit an authoritarian one.

As far as the Chinese go, they have long been called "The Jews of the East", and not without reason. Some of the relationships within their major extended families are staggeringly complex and intertwined within the political, business and military power throughout southern Asia.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-10-22 10:11|| 2010-10-22 10:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting exercise: compare taxes on capital gains in the US and in China, and add in restrictions and barriers to capital formation as well as business costs due to government mandates and regulations. Go do the math.

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-10-22 11:03|| 2010-10-22 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 The US political & economic system is now the worst enemy of the people of the USA. Islamists are down the list somewhere.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-22 11:15|| 2010-10-22 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Killer ad.

Absolutely the chinese, especially those groomed to go into government, would learn about the perils of big gov, as the chinese region has had revolt in the past because of large authoritarianism. On the flip side, with a new and growing middle class who see themselves as chinese as anyone I'd guess is in direct conflict with asian-style communism. So yes, both the gov class and middle/merchant class would be very interested in such a topic.

(I wish I had the book handy which explains this in one nice paragraph, something like the gov class goes in and tells the peasant class they deserve some of what the middle class has, employ the peasant class with the gov class and kill or chase off the middle class, then the gov class turns on the peasant class and forces them to turn rocks into rice...or else. It may not even be considered asian style anymore, it is an older book, since that is basically zimbobland etc)

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-10-22 12:21|| 2010-10-22 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The middle class is a direct challenge to the total authority of the gov, but if the gov shuts down the middle class they lose their economic arm but keep their ruling status. Wait, who am I talking about again?

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-10-22 12:27|| 2010-10-22 12:27|| Front Page Top

#6 And round & round we go.

Posted by anonymous2u 2010-10-22 12:44|| 2010-10-22 12:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Chinese merchants have generally been successful 'outside' the kingdom. Historically, they were treated as less than peasants, who of course raised the food, though they were good to on an irregular basis to fleece of wealth for the government. It ran through the culture as such for a couple thousand years. Then the communists carried the concept to the logical conclusion of just liquidating the 'parasites'. Now the government has discovered the benefits of capitalism, they can follow model of those Chinese merchants from 'outside' the kingdom to displace the collectivists and redistributionists who abandoned the basis of their economic strength.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-22 13:56|| 2010-10-22 13:56|| Front Page Top

#8 "of course, we owned most of their debt"

at this point instead of laughing, they should be crying as the US can print the confetti to pay back the 'debt'

just like argentina once did. Look at argentina now: very successful.

Posted by anon1 2010-10-22 20:01|| 2010-10-22 20:01|| Front Page Top

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