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Economic Growth in U.S. Beats Forecast in Third Quarter
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
The economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the third quarter,
significantly better than economists had expected. But some experts were
quick to warn that the fourth quarter may not be as rosy.
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — America is a quitter. We’re
giving up, surrendering, forfeiting. Yes, throwing the game. Throwing
away our future as the world’s superpower. We’re forced to walk off the
economic playing field. Not by outside enemies, by our own Congress
refusing to play a job-creating economic game. We are our own worst enemy in the biggest economic war in world history. And Asia loves it!
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Our do-nothing Congress, our no-compromise politicians and our
austerity-obsessed Luddites controlling Washington are killing America’s
economic growth, killing our superpower role, killing our future ...
and, yes, Asians love it.
Old warriors like Sen. John McCain plus the neocons who conned us into
the $3 trillion Iraq War still believe the future will be won by
aggression, big armies, battleships and a Pentagon spending a half
trillion a year ... while our infrastructure crumbles, our educational
system decays, and jobs and profits go overseas fattening foreign
economies.
By 2040, China’s GDP is 40% of world, America’s GDP shrinks to 14%
Forget war, take off the blinders. It’s “the economy, stupid,” more
jobs, not more war debt. Unfortunately, America’s myopic right wing acts
like ninja saboteurs, unwittingly aiding and abetting growth in foreign
nations. China keeps investing in its future, creating jobs, building
infrastructure, funding education and technology and its GDP soars.
And America keeps sliding into a no-growth economy, to 1% GDP growth in a generation.
Yes, Asia is speeding way ahead of us, winning the economic war. By 2015
China’s GDP will overtake America’s. And still we refuse to compete,
thanks to the myopic Luddites running Congress. A few years ago the
headline of a Foreign Policy feature by Nobel economist Robert W. Fogel,
a renown China scholar, made clear what’s ahead: “$123,000,000,000,000: Why China’s Economy Will Grow to $123 Trillion by 2040.”
China is the new economic superpower because it is stealing the best of
our capitalism, mixing it with government planning, racing to win the
prize as the No. 1 global power. And while they’re planning, our
saboteurs inside Washington are surrendering the economic war to China.
Here’s Fogel’s disturbing forecast in Foreign Policy:
“In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly three
times the economic output of the entire globe in 2000. China’s
per-capita income will hit $85,000, more than double the forecast for
the European Union, and also much higher than that of India and Japan as
China moves “from a poor country in 2000 to a superrich country in
2040.”
America’s per-capita wealth may be higher, says Fogel, but “China’s
share of global GDP — 40% — will dwarf that of the United States (14%)
and the European Union (5%) 30 years from now.”
America wears blinders, Asia unstoppable, America losing the war
Asians must be laughing loud at Washington’s blind stupidity, how we are
sabotaging our own economic future. They see America as narcissistic,
selfish and totally blind to how self-destructive we are. Worse, Asians
are not only aware of our stupidity, they’re taking full advantage of
it.
Here’s how one Asian leader recently challenged our politicians. In
“America’s Blinders,” a Project Syndicate column by Kishore Mahbubani,
dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National
University of Singapore and author of “The Great Convergence: Asia, the
West, and the Logic of One World:”
“The time has come to think the unthinkable: the era of American
dominance in international affairs may well be coming to an end. As that
moment approaches, the main question will be how well the United States
is prepared for it.”
[SIDEBAR: WHO are the people writing at the 'Times' kidding? Diverting the issues with CIRCUSES isn't cutting the mustard and that means the US CONSTITUTIONAL 'MUSTER' isn't either. PLAY THE FIDDLE NERO while your ROMAN GOLDEN ARMY retreats from the WARS without END and then what? How is WALL STREET gonna shuffle all those DERIVATIVES that are FRAUD and the WORLD EARTH has kicked the BS out, so should the NYT in the event it chooses to preserve at least one tiny shred of credibility in the global arena of REAL NEWS Twenty-first Century AUGHTS' style WWW.]
THE SO CALLED PAPER OF NEWS: NEW YORK TIMES, isn't exactly owned by the American 99%
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