The greatest obscenity in the world?

Damocles said:
You show yourself to be a heartless meatbag.

Now that we've traded insults can you answer about the "outrage" you show over forced abortions? How about the fact that the government in China, who owns your little city, doesn't do much for the starving peasants in China?

A bit of mote in your eye there?
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I wish I had the time and knowledge to give you a full and comprehensive answer but I don't. Suffice it to say that improvements are coming to China, they may not be as rapid as you think they ought to be but they are much much faster than improvements to your own society. Allowing that they start from a much lower point they have still risen from an almost entirely agrarian economy to the foremost manufacturing nation in the entire world. On my first visit to China the only motor cars were mercedes stolen from Hong Kong for the personal use of party cadres. That was just over twenty years ago. China is now the biggest car market in the world.
So their economy is improving, yours at best, is stagnating.
 
Lowaicue said:
I wish I had the time and knowledge to give you a full and comprehensive answer but I don't. Suffice it to say that improvements are coming to China, they may not be as rapid as you think they ought to be but they are much much faster than improvements to your own society. Allowing that they start from a much lower point they have still risen from an almost entirely agrarian economy to the foremost manufacturing nation in the entire world. On my first visit to China the only motor cars were mercedes stolen from Hong Kong for the personal use of party cadres. That was just over twenty years ago. China is now the biggest car market in the world.
So their economy is improving, yours at best, is stagnating.
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It has nowhere to go but up. And BTW, an economy isn't the same thing as personal freedom or ending political totalitarianism. Political prisoners dying, the man who wins the peace prize isn't allowed to collect. There are still many starving or barely surviving in a poverty we would never consider acceptable even for the ones you say are 'starving' in the US.

There is a huge disconnect to reality in your mind where you think that this is where such scorn should be aimed. You stand in the middle of a hurricane and tell us the weather is bad in the US because in some places it is raining.

You need to look a bit closer to home to find the "biggest obscenity" in the world.
 
Damocles said:
It has nowhere to go but up. And BTW, an economy isn't the same thing as personal freedom or ending political totalitarianism. Political prisoners dying, the man who wins the peace prize isn't allowed to collect. There are still many starving or barely surviving in a poverty we would never consider acceptable even for the ones you say are 'starving' in the US.

There is a huge disconnect to reality in your mind where you think that this is where such scorn should be aimed. You stand in the middle of a hurricane and tell us the weather is bad in the US because in some places it is raining.

You need to look a bit closer to home to find the "biggest obscenity" in the world.
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Let's not forget all those farmers that were "relocated", so the Three Gorges Dam could be built.
 
Damocles said:
It has nowhere to go but up. And BTW, an economy isn't the same thing as personal freedom or ending political totalitarianism. Political prisoners dying, the man who wins the peace prize isn't allowed to collect. There are still many starving or barely surviving in a poverty we would never consider acceptable even for the ones you say are 'starving' in the US.

There is a huge disconnect to reality in your mind where you think that this is where such scorn should be aimed. You stand in the middle of a hurricane and tell us the weather is bad in the US because in some places it is raining.

You need to look a bit closer to home to find the "biggest obscenity" in the world.
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The only 'scorn' I exercised was towards that strangely named religious looney Mitt. The rest was not scorn but a call for you and your fellow Americans to stop for a moment and consider the extent to which you have been taken in by these politicians. Of course there are other things in the world that should be brought to the attention of ordinary people, the corruption in Russian politics, the way Presidents of the Philipines have used the dirt poor citizenry to provide ridiculous amounts of personal wealth, the way China treats its prisoners BUT you are STILL insisting that no one should look too closely at your embarrassing truths while there are others elsewhere.
Not a very 'christian' philosophy.
Indeed one might say that you are, by your statements, and to quote your fine country man Dumbo, simply doing the will of your masters. Perhaps if an American had had the balls to hold these people up to ridicule you would not have been as quick to defend.
 
While Obama/the Dems have spent a lot we have to remember Obama is trying to get medical care for the less fortunate. After almost 2-1/2 centuries it looks like he'll be successful. Overall, I believe he is trying to do more for the "little guy" so while the amount of money spent is obscene we have to remember the reason for it. He is fighting against those who would rob the dying of their last penny and also against those who support such a practice.

Just saying. :)
 
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