Re: China's not really "beating" us, Robert.
You really went off the rails with that last paragraph. Where in any of my posts have I held up China as a positive role model? I suspect you didn't read my post if you think I did anything but criticize and denounce China's "industrial collectivism", aka 21st century slavery.
American jobs are bleeding out to China because China is competing using barbaric labor practices. Level the playing field and we'd be doing one hell of a lot better relative to China.
Do you get the fact that I'm defending free-market capitalism? Or did you just get carried away by the compulsion to argue?