RSSYou see, that certainly is very different from what is proclaimed by the "Trust Barometer" with its methodological quirks (basing conclusions on surveys of persons Edelman identifies as "informed" citizens, etc.), What you say makes a lot of sense. I am an octogenarian and so, while I cannot really say that I experienced the Great Depression and the New Deal as an adult, I definitely remember it as a child. And I remember how adults (even those with some Republican leanings) really did love FDR. (I refer you to Arthur Godfrey's radio coverage of the state funeral of FDR.) I believe what you say, Daniel, and not what the Edelman survey purports to be the case - 90% trust in "the government" - trust to do what? being the operative question.
"They really do love Xi Dada, and this isn’t an affectation. Most people in China would rate the competence of the CCP as fair to good, but not everyone would agree that the bureaucrats are out to benefit the average person as opposed to themselves. That is the correct, realistic view, imo." -- Daniel Chieh
“Generally, about the democracy question, I would quote what is attributed to Sir Winston Churchill: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.” ”
Winston Churchill died before the rise of Singapore. Today he would probably say the best form of government is that of a benevolent autocrat, like Lee Kuan Yew.
Throughout history dynasties in China had always been undone by decadence and corruption. It’s ingrained in their culture. China today remains one of the most corrupt countries in the world, not much better than India. The only difference is, in China the officials steal from the people while they get things done, in India they steal and get nothing done.
Lee Kuan Yew was able to stem out corruption in his government because a) it’s a small country of 5m as opposed to a country of 1.3Billion, and b) he paid his cabinet members very well (close to a $1million a year in salary) so they have no incentive to be corrupt. He also made all government employees wear name tags and urge all citizens to report all cases of corruption.
The president of China makes only $26,000 a year. The rank and file make even less. And China being so huge the government trust busters have limited reach. There’s corruption up and down every level of government in China. One city official was so corrupt he actually had a money box in his office. Anyone who came in to ask for anything first needed to deposit 10,000 Yuan in the box before they asked for any favor.
Where are most of these rich corrupt officials these days? Probably somewhere in CA, or Seattle, NYC, Sydney, Vancouver, Miami, living the good life. The Economist has written about the phenomenon of the “naked official” in China, where the corrupt official moves his wife and kid overseas, with all their money, while he still lives and puts up the pretense of work in China, ready to flee on a moment’s notice, usually in the middle of the night. There are also factory owners who leave in the middle of the night, leaving behind months of unpaid wages to their employees. Every business in China keeps 3 sets of books, one set for the government auditors, one set for the foreign partners, and one set for in house consumption. When the government comes knocking probing for tax fraud, they hang the accountant out to dry.
China is an even bigger house of cards than the US. That’s why anyone who can afford to is looking to leave, not much better than India. Only once they get here they start talking up the greatness of the motherland, like the Indians. What a joke. We should send them all packing. 90% of those here are probably wanted in China for some form of corruption. Americans are idiots for letting them colonize us like this, that’s why they insist on keeping their rotten culture believing it to be superior to ours. As more and more of them immigrate here they’ll transform us into another China in no time.
“ninety-five percent of poor Chinese own their homes and land and the Chinese own, in common, the commanding heights of their economy– banks, insurers and utilities. And Inequality is being effectively addressed.”
Sounds like CPC propaganda. Per The Economist there is no such thing as land ownership in China. Nobody owns the land they live or work on due to the legacy of communism. Even home owners technically only has a 30 year lease on the land they live on. Farmers definitely do not own the land that they farm, that’s why so many corrupt government officials were able to seize the land and sold it to well connected developers on the cheap, pocketed the money and moved to the west.
If the survey is actually right that 90% of Chinese are happy with their government, it’s because the Chinese president does a good job giving the impression that his corruption purge is working. He nailed a number of high profile political opponents like Bo Xi Lai and the end result is, corrupt officials flee the country on a never before seen scale, with all their ill gotten gains.
For the last decade demand for the 10,000 per year limit EB-5 visa has been soaring and almost all from wealthy Chinese. Property prices surged from HK to Singapore, Sydney to Vancouver, and from coast to coast in the US. At least 1/3 to 1/2 of all $million+ property buyers are from mainland China, all are cash buyers through shell companies in the Cayman Islands. Honest people do not need shell companies and do not buy in cash. The President of China makes only $26,000 a year, where does an ordinary Joe get $500k plus another couple of million to buy property in the west? Only the very wealthy can emigrate, and the country is so corrupt, no one can get rich without being corrupt, either by taking bribes or giving them.
This article is hogwash. If China were that great, why is pratically the entire US west coast being transformed into a Chinese colony? Rich Chinese are fleeing China on a never before seen scale, that’s why the CPC is imposing stricter capital control, to no avail. Homes in my neighborhood have become a favorite money laundering ground for the mainland Chinese. This article is a propaganda piece for the CPC and nothing more. China sucks. Even those who said it’s great can’t wait to leave, just like India.
I’m curious who form the majority of the Antifa group. We know they are the far left but are they mostly secular Jews or gentiles? Isn’t this the same group that protest all the G8 summits like the one in Seattle in ’99 and the recent one in Hamburg? Are they for or against globalization exactly? I’m confused.
Regardless, after the unholy alliance of the Alt-Left (Antifa+BLM) picked off the right, they’ll turn on the left, and the Jews who form the majority of the 1% will likely be their new targets. Liberal Jews who are egging them on like George Soros, Gary Cohn and the MSM are dumb beyond belief.
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The Los Angeles Daily News carried out a deeper analysis of the data to try and find the “cause” of the gap, and was forced to admit that a “higher family income does not appear to even things out.”
Furthermore, the paper continued, the “gap is not unique to California” and that the “phenomenon is nevertheless worrisome because it may compound other educational disparities California has attempted to close for decades, without success.”
Furthermore, the paper added, “scores aren’t the only educational area in which black boys trail their peers. African-American boys are more likely to be suspended and drop out of school than other demographic groups, in California and elsewhere.
IQ is inversely correlated with testosterone. The higher the testosterone level, the lower the IQ, hence the term “dumb jock”. As a group Blacks have the highest level of testosterone, hence the proportional level of IQ. Of course there are always individual exceptions. Sadly in the case of blacks, the smart kids are vastly outnumbered and often get picked on so badly they languish in school.
If we were smart and courageous as a society we’d channel all the kids flunking Algebra I into vocational school by 11th grade, save the taxpayers billions in college loans for useless degrees and criminal justice cost down the road.
Doesn’t change what I said, that those 4 people are not the ones whose work form the foundation of western civilization. The Greek philosophers did that, not the Jews, religious or otherwise. And the German Jewish discovery confirmed what I said, that Jewish contribution consist of nothing but garbage like communism, narcissism and the atom bomb, all things that made the world worse off.
Since the 60s the Jews also gave us the new religion of Liberalism, which is just communism meets narcissism meets multiculturalism, and you get the worst of all worlds, which explains why the west is heading down the pit of hell.
Mainland Chinese tourists and businessmen are despised throughout Asia, especially in English speaking countries like Singapore and Malaysia. The mainland Chinese are known to be extremely arrogant, haughty and abrasive, yelling in mandarin to everyone including the local Malays and Indians wherever they go, much like the way they behave here, except in the US everyone’s too PC to say how they really feel about these new invaders. I can’t stand the sight of them and I won’t hesitate to speak up against them because they are all corrupt. 800m Chinese still live on <$2 a day, who could afford to pay US$500k for a visa except the most corrupt?
These people have the most atrocious manners, always chewing with their mouth open, talking with their mouth full, spitting, talking loudly everywhere they go including indoors, yelling on their cellphones, always insisting on speaking mandarin to any Asian looking person they see. They are even more odious than the Cantonese speaking tribe from Hong Kong, as if that's even possible. I despise them because they make other Asians like me look bad. The US needs to send them all packing before they turn us into another dog-eat-dog corrupt hell hole like China.
Just another liberal Jewish pseudo intellectual hack leading the western world down the abyss. The academic world is littered with them. Take a number.
The immigrants with whom I've interacted all assure me that their home country is best; they are just here to expand the brand.Replies: @Facts are the new lies
They actually think their culture is better than American culture, which begs the question, why the F are they here?
“The immigrants with whom I’ve interacted all assure me that their home country is best; they are just here to expand the brand.”
Which is why I voted for Trump, so he could shut down the EB5 and H1b programs altogether. The mainland Chinese are especially odious. 9 out of 10 came in via EB5 and practically all are corrupt, either by taking bribes or giving them. US real estate is now their favorite money laundering vehicle. That’s why they came in with that “we’re better than you” attitude, they bought their way in so they didn’t think they owe anyone anything, and can do whatever they damn well please. This fraud ridden program is now the #1 get out of jail on the cheap card for China’s most corrupt, and it must end. Unfortunately Trump will not lift a finger on it because his son-in-law’s family real estate development firm is actively promoting this visa to China’s corrupt elite. Nepotism sucks.
So now even universities are increasingly segregated. Asians love to chase whites. Whenever there are too many Asians, they’d move to where the whites are. But then so many follow suit, whites begin to leave, so another city turns into majority Asian. Immigration is the 21st century method of colonization, the passport is the new weapon, or for the illegals, no passports are even needed.
It’s ironic. Asians and hispanics are immigrating here in such large numbers, they have turned increasingly large parts of the US into another Asia and Mexico. There are now more and more Asians and Mexicans who do not speak English, have no interest in learning and rarely venture outside their ethnic enclaves. Pretty soon there’d be no need for immigration, because everywhere is the same and equally shitty. I guess that’s the grand plan of our globalist elites. Silicon Valley, the restaurants their employees frequent and new homes they need all have to have their cheap labor, Starbucks needs more customers.
A while back a group of citizens in San Gabriel Valley in LA tried to put up a new law requiring business signs to all be in English, it was defeated. Now all over the valley signs are in all manners of Asian languages, primarily Chinese, some Spanish, Arabic…anything but English. The new arrivals from mainland China are large in number and extremely reluctant to assimilate. They actually think their culture is better than American culture, which begs the question, why the F are they here? I’m Asian btw, just not from China or India.
What is the future of America like? United States of MexChindia will be 8 million ethnoburbs in search of a nation, a dog-eat-dog, crime infested corrupt hellhole like the rest of the 3rd world.
The immigrants with whom I've interacted all assure me that their home country is best; they are just here to expand the brand.Replies: @Facts are the new lies
They actually think their culture is better than American culture, which begs the question, why the F are they here?
“Is it any wonder that the four greatest and most original oracles of western intellectual thought – Spinoza, Marx, Einstein, and Freud – were Jewish?”
Is this a joke? The greatest and most original oracles of western intellectual thought were the Greek philosophers – Plato, Socrates, Aristotle. I would also include Charles Darwin in the group, who was English. None were Jewish. The Jewish “thinkers” gave the world nothing but garbage like communism, narcissism and the atom bomb, all things that made us worse off rather than better off.