Communists kicking free market capitalists' a$$es

Ironic and true, I love this article. Capitalism works because Communism supports it financially. What a brilliant observation.

agreed, one can't polish a turd.
look, to an extent people are responsible for themselves, and at the risk of sounding like a cynic, the world order isn't changing course anytime soon, no matter how much responsible folks like ourselves post on a website. i was a combat engineer in the army in iraq, and now i'm an urban planning grad student in chicago, i'm also a bicycle dork who doesn't own a car, and i work part time as a bicycle mechanic, i don't mean to preach about myself, but i'm just saying, maybe actions speak louder than words, if one can't change the world order of corporations, nation states, and other huge entities, perhaps one can co-opt them, and bend them to make the world better. ever heard the political theory of "all boats float higher"? maybe check it out?

When I was a kid, the guy who swept the floors and emptied the trash was called a Janitor.
This day and age's politically correct terminology requires he be called a Sanitation Engineer.
Use all the freaking fancy words you want, a pile of shit by any other name is still a pile of shit.

If the defenders of china's unfair trade policy's love that kind of free market why don't you fucking move there!

The worlds corporate international overlords have played us all like a fiddle, with China providing cheap labor and no environmental rules these same industrialist have found that communist country's provide the environment that corporate communism has fallen in love with. Taking our country back by inserting high tariffs to the point that a pair of tennis shoes made in china for a buck but here in the USA cost 10 bucks that tariff would be 9 bucks on a pair of chinese shoes. With the high cost of energy to bring those to the USA would be too much and new tennis shoe factory's would spring up all over AMERICA. Job, jobs, jobs.

This article does not speak highly for the author, nor the person who actually believed the garbage contained within.

Does anyone know why China became so successful? Because they embraced the free market (mostly trade with the United States). Our two economies are linked with one another. Without the US to buy crappy Chinese goods they would be screwed. Without China supplying the US with crappy goods we would be screwed.

This is probably one of the least educated opinions I've read in a very long time.

Best Letter to Editor, ever!

To Washington Post Letters:

Steven F. Hayward wrote: “The single largest defect of modern conservatism, in my mind, is its insufficient ability to challenge liberalism at the intellectual level. . . .”

No.

The single largest defect of modern conservatism is that it has ruined the nation.

Conservatives do not have ideas; they have interests.

Conservatives are not “thinkers”; they are rationalizers who give an intellectual gloss to their belief that an alliance of predatory businesspeople and religious extremists should rule the rest of us.

The wreckage caused by modern conservatism lies all around us, and speaks for itself: If conservatism isn’t dead, it should be.

DANIEL ROSEN

Baltimore

There was a point in time where the United States was fully self sufficient. We produced all the goods we needed and most of those goods were consumed here. Some were exported as well.

Then greed stepped in and our corporations figured they could circumvent our environmental laws and the cost of labor by having goods produced over seas, mostly in china, and our government let them do it.

Every ounce of technology the chinese have is copied from The US and other countries. None of it was invented on their own. The chinese are the absolute best copy cats in the world. Now they have enough of everyone else's technology they are doing the manufacturing on their own.
They don't have the EPA, FDA, USDA, OSHA... etc laws and regulations that we do here in the US allowing them to have, along with the two cent an hour labor, the cheapest manufacturing base in the world.

And our friggin government is letting it happen.

Yes, the United States is on it's way to being a 3rd world country. It is doing so because of corporate greed and corrupt government.

Chinese "Communism" has an economy that is more free market than ours in many respects. Before the reforms that made the shift to capitalism China was nothing.

this article is filled with holes.

Corporations are just like people. . . You know. . . except you can't put 'em in jail. . .

That is a question that is very hard to answer since I have never lived in a society that employed the "Free Market Capitalist system." I have only lived in a society that employed an overly regulated and bastardized version of the free market system which they somehow still called "The Free Market."

How do you have free trade with warrant-less wire-taping? Having that power lets the government sneak trade secrets.

I fully expect china to take over the world some time in the next 50 years.

china isnt communist!
the west is now looking to china because they like the control they execute over people and information - be ready for the police state :(

The US will continue buying already cheap Chinese goods made cheaper by China's weak currency policy. China will continue bailing out the US as long as the US needs it because US T-bills are China's best investment with weak US dollars. The US will continue needing bail outs from China until the US gets it's banks and investment companies in line with some serious regulation. This is nothing new at all. We need regulation and government created jobs NOW until this mess we are in created by unbridled capitalism is fixed.

Greed is a useful servant but a terrible master.

The great US of A is corrupt and greedy...

gimme a fucking break. china , first of all, isn't very communist. they are supposed to be technically but in reality are nowhere near it. secondly, would you want to live in any communist country in the history of the earth? China has absolutely no protections for labor, safety in the workplace, etc..

also, blaming the government for one's failures.... really looks bad man. you should maybe "peer into your teacup".....and then go get a job.

globalization is a risky business.......

For too many yeas now manufacturing jobs were being shipped over seas. Labor complained the rest of American thankful for cheaper products. Never did Labor or Big Business try to solve the problem. Today's job require more schooling a different type of employee, again we lose, we stopped teaching science and biology in our schools and replaced it with biblical fairy tears. We want to be big brother, lead in warfare, after all we got the tools, we trained the men we have to see if we got our money worth. In comes a borderline retarded President and his gun toting VP. A handful of terrorist murder a few thousand citizens and destroy two buildings and the Cowboy in Washington risk all and fails at the job. So now we can add more Americans dead because of inept leadership than we can to a handful of terrorists. Runs to the communist and borrows against our great grandchildren's future. The only thing to come from this is that America slips into becoming a third world nation, one lead by the fairy tales of the bible than fact and wisdom.

But I told you and I told you and I told you...

this article sucks.

China isn't communist. Neither is the US free market capitalist.

China's edge over the US isn't a matter of economic ideology.

China is advancing precisely BECAUSE it isn't being run by ideologues.

There is no such thing as free market capitalism. There is no such thing as pure communism. Both are totally corrupt and always will be. Greed is an ugly fact of life in any market.

So to answer the question: "How's the Free Market Capitalist system working? "

We will never know.

What makes you think there are any free markets? That's the problem! Capitalism would work fine if assholes would let it be free. Unfortunately, we've been living in a corporatocracy instead. Let's not get the two mixed up. Thanks.

That bad thing is our Corporations see a golden opportunity in a communistic capitalism way and now we need to stop free trade and put corporate personhood in it's place for the traitors they are.