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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Thomas L. Friedman Wants US To Be Like China

Mr. Friedman, you must be joking!

When writing about the recent olympics Friedman states that "No, it was the culmination of seven years of national investment, planning, concentrated state power, national mobilization and hard work."

He goes on to compare our two countries in this way:
"China has been preparing for the Olympics; we’ve been preparing for Al Qaeda. They’ve been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armored Humvees and pilotless drones."

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!? WE ARE NOW BEING LECTURED AS TO HOW GREAT CHINA IS COMPARED TO BAD BAD AMERICA THE BULLIES WHO SPEND STUPID AMOUNTS OF MONEY ON DEFENSE AGAINST A MOVEMENT THAT WANTS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD AND THE CHINESE ARE THE GOOD GUYS! I MUST HAVE DROPPED ACID AND STEPPED INTO ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

And to add insult to injury states this:"Then ask yourself: Who is living in the third world country?"

Friedman admits that if you drive an hour outside of Bejing you'll see the dirt poorest of the poor but in the major cities of China, he believes they are more spectacular than our cities and more innovative.

Yes Mr. Friedman a society that jails its citizens when they sign up for a permit to protest the taking away of their property in order to build all these spectacular things you mention, can quite easily muster every dollar possible to make their biggest cities the tallest and cleanest etc etc...I'd rather have a little less spectacular and the freedom to live, work and speak as I please without fear of never returning.

5 comments:

Mark43 said...

Q: Who wants the gold medal in badminton. Here's China did, they looked at all the sporting events that the olympics offers and did an analysis of what events they could win with little effort. I like diving but I would rather have a swimming medal any day. Do they have anyone comparable to Phelps? No. Let them have the Olympic gold count, we have freedom!

Da Old Man said...

Friedman is an idiot.

Didn't you know we suck? All thise people come here because we are so terrible. It's penance for them.

A New Yorker said...

Mark43, LMAO. You're too funny.

D.O.M., I was thinking the same thing as I was writing this but have been told by SOME people that my posts are rather long. Hmmm ;-)

Karen said...

Methinks it's Mr Friedman who has been dropping the acid.

A New Yorker said...

Gypsy, YESSIREEBOB!