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Our next President will preside over a Second Place country

Or:

我很喜欢毛主席

Joseph Warren, Editor

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China’s indisputable growth is unavoidable: Even their slow years exceeds 300% of our growth. The Global Fortune 500 results are in and China is a close second to the United States. Most economists tend to think that by 2020 - the end of the first term of whomever we elect next November - China will have surpassed the United States in industrial might and, thus, in her standing internationally. That will vastly change the balance of things - severely disrupting the stasis we’ve grown over the decades to accept as irrefutable. Not so in very few years.


The Leader of the Free world, as the president has been called, will then become, the Leader of the Second String. Not an enviable reality but one we face if we do nothing else: If we don’t change how we shop, how we run our government, how the “proletariat” as the Communist Chinese would call the rabble comprising most of the United States, function within society.


In just four or five years we will become a country that “Once Was...”


The US Dollar will eventually be replaced by the steadily government controlled, manipulated, and protected Yuan. But, that’s not everything we face: 35 other countries have fewer people (as a percentage of population) living below the poverty line. We are about 40th globally for Literacy. We spend 10 times that of any other country on Defense. We spend at least twice that of any other country on Health Care yet have far greater Mortality rates - more people die younger here than in many other countries - countries where the percentage of those who Smoke, as an example - is far greater than the USA. (Editor’s note: We spend as much as we do in order to boost our Gross Domestic Product. Without Health Care spending we would still be very much mired in a Recession/Depression. Read, Cold Storage, below.)


We have one of the highest Suicide rates in the world. And, not surprisingly, one of the highest in Homicide. 62% of our qualified Work Force is actually working while the other 38 percent relies on various subsistence programs to put food on the table. We have one of the lowest wages of all developed countries. And the list goes on...


Given all this, I’m surprised we’ve lasted as long as we have: Whoever is next up to bat better have a pretty good swing. As for us here: 我很喜欢毛主席 which translates roughly to, “Mao, Mao, he’s our man/If he can’t do it no one can!”