Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff
Well that is going to add to the deficit of "years given" by western sooth sayers. We have been saying it for sixty years; when China had a system that couldn't work. They have since changed it to one that can. A few more adjustments and they are go, all the way. They have a massive population that incinerates the population of the entire west - all in one country. You would have to believe that whites are superior racially to hold onto the idea that we can defeat them economically.

What would you say if China was the future and we were the past?
China is the past, they're just catching up the the present. One thing that's holding America back is not the age of our culture, like in China, but our aging population. What will happen when the baby boomers die? We will have a proportionately much younger demographic then we have now. The economic "decline" (by decline I mean slowly growing) of America will end in our lifetime. Well, maybe now Kurki's.

We haven't even factored in the unknown such as new technologies, space exploration, etc. I don't expect China to suddenly break with thousands of years of tradition and become a country of explorers. What happened when Germany tried to build a navy? America will continue to be the place where people come to liberate their minds to explore the unknown. Hopefully we'll get smart soon and stop them from stealing everything that isn't nailed down.