The China Mentality

Salvete. Let's look into the state of the American society.

For better or worse, we are becoming more and more like a more expensive China. The government is giving people more and more stuff: healthcare, college aid, social security, et cetera. As a result, people are expecting the government to do more and more for them, and they see the government as the center of it all. Especially in the recent sequester and government shutdown, the government is actively trying to promote this idea: if you can't have all this government, you can't do anything. Even though there is an abundance of inefficiencies, the United States government is making itself out to be the source of everything, from central parks to private industries ("You didn't build that!"), by taking away the most critical parts of America first, like the memorials, national parks, and profit-making industries, but withholding the inefficiencies of government, like, for example, Obamacare. What is the result of this? The government would solidify its position in private-industry affairs and immediately search for more. People just assume that the more government there is, the better off industry will be.

China is not anti-capitalist per se. They recognize the power of capitalism. The reason why they are Communist and the quality of living is so low is because the Chinese government took all of the industry away from the private sector. This is how people are able to point at China and say how well the country is doing. Yes, the Chinese government is stronger than the American government, but the American private sector runs circles around the Chinese private sector (if there is one) and the Chinese government combined. The private sector is our strength. Period. The American government is trying to limit our greatest weapon. This cannot happen.