[Hoot Gibson]

so you are saying we would be better off as a communist country

Read my post again. I am saying that Obama and the liberal Democrats have been dragging us down the socialist/fascist road and it is making us less competitive in the global economy. China, on the other hand, has noticed that central planning of its economy failed, as did the rigid Soviet central economy, and has unleashed the power of the free market.

The Chinese political structure is still a totalitarian, old style communist institution, but many of its entrepreneurs are becoming wealthy beyond their wildest dreams while federal red tape and taxes are strangling small businesses in this country. While the non-American communists and socialists of the world have awakened to the fact that capitalism is the best economic system every devised by man, American socialists cannot get their fill of big government programs and control over our economy.

Eventually, the growing number of wealthy business people and emerging middle class in China may demand political freedom to match their economic freedom, but for the time being at least they are batting .500. Obama is laying goose eggs.