Obama Cites Communist China As Shining Example Of Government Development Of Infrastructure

• August 23, 2008

Does Obama want to be the leader of the free world? Or a totalitarian world where massive public works projects aimed at impressing foreigners are completed at the expense of millions forced from their homes?

Aside from a rather troubling level of appreciation for the ability of totalitarians to build a nice highway (let’s not forget that the Nazis were pretty dang good at public works projects too), this illustrates Obama’s utter naivete about the world. Yes, the infrastructure in Beijing is nice. But it’s also propaganda. China has spent billions upon billions on upgrading the infrastructure of this year’s Olympic host city, and all of it was done with an eye toward impressing the rest of the world and legitimizing the Chinese government. Much like the Nazis used the Berlin Olympics to legitimize Hitler’s regime.
And Obama fell for it. Hook, line and sinker.
Infrastructure is great, sure, but let’s not forget how the Chinese got their infrastructure and why they built it before we go off praising it.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics, The Loony Left

http://Array Wing Chun Geologist

What Mr. Obama fails to understand is that we’d have a lot more money to spend on infrastructure if we didn’t spend so much money on deadbeats.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92592545

The fact is that we have a shrinking percentage of American’s who are paying their “fair share” of taxes. And there’s an increasing number of people who are content to suck up government money and let the “rich” pay for everything.

If we stopped paying unmarried women to have babies, and they had to get jobs and pay taxes, we’d have a lot more money for our ports and bridges.
2Hotel9

Oh, and I can’t leave the leftards out! They always go ballistic on this subject. Joseph Stillwell was one of the greatest human beings to ever stride across the face of this planet. Period.

There. That ought to piss them the fuck off.
2Hotel9

WK, you need to read “Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45″. Want an eye opening no shitter about China, this is the book. Outside of a very short and narrow list of urban projects, and the 3 Gorges disaster in waiting, not a fucking thing has changed in China in the last 60 years.
2Hotel9

Funny, I read Xinhua everyday, and it is filled with articles about bridge collapses, tunnel collapses, train wrecks, crashed airplanes, mine explosions/collapses/floodings, massive construction accidents. Many days there are several accidents of each type, reported from all over China. In the recent earthquake the buildings least damaged were old buildings, newer buildings totally collapsed. Newer bridges totally collapsed.

Their long awaited Himalaya Rail line is plagued by numerous engineering problems and has yet to operate beyond the 1/2 mark of its rated capacity.

And I guess we are not supposed to talk about the 3 million people forcibly removed from their homes in Peking so as to build the Olympic venues. It was for the good of the State, of course.
Bill Mitchell

How long will it be before even the left is just too embarrassed to pull the level for Obama?

This is feeling more and more like a McCain landslide every day.
welder4

Me thinks Biden and Obama should just go to China and campaign over there as the people are tired of Obama here , shoot maybe they can elected to clean up after the Olympics, of course with no pay as they would doing it for the state. I wonder how much slave labor went into building the arena for the events . ? What a paper tiger this Obama is , hates his own country and still doesn’t wear a lapel pin , he did wear one for awhile because he was goaded into it by a Vet.
as long as Nancy is OK with his pick we should be happy .
http://www.wunderkraut.com/ WunderKraut

I spend 15 days in China in January of this year. Inside the big cities, it looks Western, but once you start looking closer, its just a facade. Once you turn off the giant boulevards with Western high rises, you enter a world of abject poverty.

We took a 2 hour drive out into the country to see our daughters orphanage in Fengxin County, outside of Nanchang. It was amazing to see the living conditions of the poor peasant farmers.

It was the dead of winter, yet their “houses” had no windows and once off the main road, everything was a maze of muddy dirt roads. It was shocking.

I am a Civil Engineer and I was shocked at how shoddy the construction was. Looking up at the buildings under construction, made me worry about the high rise hotel we were staying in.

Again, on the surface, it may appear nice and shiny, but underneath, it’s rotten to the core.

Don’t even get me started about the traffic and the pollution….
http://www.wunderkraut.com/ WunderKraut

One more thing, if you are a totalitarian government, you can ignore what environmental regulations you do have and you can ignore private property.

Two of the biggest obstacles to large infrastructure projects here in the U.S. are environmental regulation and private property concerns. Even with eminent domain, the govt. can’t just displace everyone in the way. While I feel sometimes our environmental regulations are more restrictive than they should be, I’m glad we have them. I saw ditches in China flowing milky white and green.

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