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How the USA depends upon Communism to keep afloat

Socialist ideals are ingrained in the political philosophy of America. "To promote the common welfare" seems to mean nothing to some people. We're a system built on a dash of socialism, and a pinch of salt.
 
No. Just no.

EJ, China only accounts for roughly 20 percent of US debts, which isn't a controlling stake. Besides, Debt does not work that way.
 
Are you kidding? You are just now learning that China owns us (USA)? It's been this way for years. Almost everything here comes from China. Hell, I've been telling people for years to have a "Communist Christmas" because all the gifts they buy are from China.

Now lets see if you get the people who all told me that China is not a communist country. Hmmm I wonder. One of them was Wolf something or other. Said he lived there.
 
Absurd. China still walks under the guiding and protective hand of the Great Leader. To claim that it is not communism is nothing short of damning the Great Leader's legacy.
 
Once the cultural revolution is finished, there will be no temples but monuments of the Great Leader.
 
The China I stayed and traveled in was hardly Communist. Free trade was everywhere. My heart belongs to Vietnam however. Living there for 4 months was amazing. The cops were crooked in Saigon, but most of them love Americans. It seems like every American is treated like a celebrity there. Something like 90% of the population is under 30 and obsessed with pop culture. The rest will tell you they fought China for 2000 years, France for over a hundred, we were just a blip on the radar apparently.
 
Actually China depends on the US more than the other way around. Whose currency is pegged to whom's? Whose economy depends on exports to whom's?
 
Puppycow said:
Actually China depends on the US more than the other way around. Whose currency is pegged to whom's? Whose economy depends on exports to whom's?
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My friend and I were talking about that last week. How long can a predominantly import, consumption-based society possibly sustain itself? I think it's a mutual dependancy because our system is based around low cost products and their system is based around exporting those low cost products. If either one shuts down, the other is going to feel it.
 
Halfcentaur said:
The China I stayed and traveled in was hardly Communist. Free trade was everywhere. My heart belongs to Vietnam however. Living there for 4 months was amazing. The cops were crooked in Saigon, but most of them love Americans. It seems like every American is treated like a celebrity there. Something like 90% of the population is under 30 and obsessed with pop culture. The rest will tell you they fought China for 2000 years, France for over a hundred, we were just a blip on the radar apparently.
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Yep.

You bombed them into the stone age, killed 3.000.000 people and they just shrug.

Somewhere in there is a hint why Vietnam does not usually lose wars.

Mao invaded after the US left. They were out again in what? Three weeks?
 
NWO Sentryman said:
No. Just no.

EJ, China only accounts for roughly 20 percent of US debts, which isn't a controlling stake. Besides, Debt does not work that way.
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Insofar as they are even able to buy non-trivial amounts, it's because of the capitalist part of their economy.

It's a bet, by the US, that their increasing economic power, due to increasing freedoms in the economic realm, will lead to general freedom.


If they get too uppity, we can always convince them to increase massive social programs and so on. But first they have to fully leave 3rd world status before they can assume the wasting disease of heavy-handed socialism.
 
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