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Uh huh. And I'm sure that will change because you think it should be that way. So you want all the tens of millions who have no health insurance to go on welfare? Good solution.
Which is exactly what Europeans did (like my grandparents and great grandparents) when times were hard in their country. They packed up and moved to a country which, at the time, held better prospects.
Yea, and how many years ago was that? Immigration rules didn't exist then.
I did and I know many others who did, most because they married a UK citizen but some for work. Most are happy but the ones in Scotland seem to be much happier than the ones in England or Wales. Never met one who moved to NI.
Well I think 200,000 out of 300million speaks words. There are 800,000 british in america.
First of all, sequestered cuts took place after the figures I quoted, and when they come into play, will make things much much worse.
Government funding is a small percentage of overall US R&D--which is over $450 Billion per year and growing. Chinese R&D in general seems to rely on government financing. Growth in their life science industry comes from government engineered firms as part of their 12th Five Year Plan. Of course they are growing faster because they are starting from nothing in this industry. But that doesn't mean anything. Their government has only been doing this bizarre centralized free trade single party fascist experiment since the 1990s.
The reason your opinion lacks perspective is because you assume that if the US does not singularly dominate the global economy, then that will automatically equate being a 3rd world country.
For thousands of years China had the most productive economy on earth and the greatest amount of scientific innovation and one of the most compelling intellectual and artistic cultures. The British came along and ended that, and about 100 years of absolute disaster unfolded in China (20 million killed by Taiping Rebellion, 20 million killed in flu pandemic, Japanese colonial slaughter, 20 million killed by Mao). The British had their century and bigger powers replaced them have the British become a third world nation? No. When China surpasses the US economy, will that mean the US is a third world country? No.
China has many very huge problems, not the least of which is an oppressive single party police state. Fascist orchestrated economic growth notwithstanding, China is not a place I would want to be.
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Yea, and how many years ago was that? Immigration rules didn't exist then.
The fact is, when people in Country A were facing hard times, they went to Country B if they could. Just as they did 10,000 years ago and just as they will throughout the 21st Century. The only thing that changes is which countries are Country A and Country B.
You are so cranky lately. And that is exactly why there should be more american immigrants.
As usual your reply makes no sense as you expect people to read your mind. More American immigrants to where?
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