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Originally Posted by Orruar
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And the second one is just plain stupid. Do you really believe what you just said? China is preparing to allow its currency to appreciate, in preparation for delinking from the USD entirely. If your theory is true, we should see fantastic times ahead for the American middle class. Instead, this is the beginning of the end.
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That's exactly what I mean. China is out-governing us in terms of economic and fiscal policy. Government provides guidance in contrast to free market chaos, where people will seek to plunder the system at the cost of everyone else. Our middle class will continue to be destroyed as a result.
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Also, taken a whole, it should be noted that the US-related things you listed account for maybe 1/10th of 1% of the government. So it's good you were able to find that small slice of things that aren't completely destroyed by the touch of Uncle Sam.
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I was specific, you should do the same. What is it you think Uncle Sam is systematically destroying?
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Of course, what could we have done with that $25B of 1960's dollars instead of send people to the moon? How about an extra 50 years worth of cancer research. The government is great at showing you what it has done, but it's impossible to show what could have been if not for their theft of our money.
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I agree. But the fact that our government spends its money isn't an example of why governments aren't legitimate, only that ours is/was not optimally run. There was still heaps of public sector cancer research during that time. Also lots of corruption, pork barrel defense spending, and crony capitalism.
And guess what? All this shit works elsewhere, particularly western and northern Europe. You never addressed that.