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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (262561)4/24/2008 4:26:44 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
No, China's dictatorship allows what it allows and the economy grows at 9%.

Allows what it allows? What the hell does that mean?

What it has been allowing was a much greater degree of economic freedom. If it takes that away the "grows at 9%" will be history.

If your propaganda is true, Afghanistan, with no federal government to speak of should be a roaring economic success.

Afganistan was controlled by totalitarians in the Taliban. Now its a war zone.

But even with the war

"The real value of non-drug GDP increased by 29% in 2002, 16% in 2003, and 8% in 2004...

...Economic growth in 2005 is estimated at 14%."

web.worldbank.org

"Afghanistan’s GDP has doubled in the past five years and now stands at a 13 percent growth rate, while inflation has remained relatively low."

usip.org

"Real GDP growth exceeded 7% in 2007."
cia.gov

Of course Afghanistan is poorer than China, but China is poorer than the US. You issue is economic growth rather than absolute income or wealth.

If you free a country up from totalitarian communism, or totalitarian fundamentalist Islam, its economy does better. Why this should be a surprise to you I don't know.

No, hiring private contractors OUTSIDE THE MILITARY CHAIN OF COMMAND is privatization of war.

Nonsense.
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