Obama: Why Are We Not Like China?

From Ft. Hard Knox:

“Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business you’re starting to think, ‘Beijing looks like a pretty good option.’”

Sure. It’s easy to develop infrastructure when you’re a totalitarian regime that displaces people and property at will, builds using slave and prison labor, manipulates markets, and murders anyone who gets into their way. Sort of like Chicago City Hall.

Nothing happened at Tienanmen Square.