The real crisis will begin when China’s standard of living rises to the point where the best and brightest minds in the world go there to live.  They already have four times the population of the US.  That means four times as many smart people.  They simply have a brain power advantage.  We once were able to compensate with superior development of domestic brains and by enticing foreign brains to move here, but those days are over.  Soon our own talent will be leaving for China.  If you think America is fat, lazy, and stupid now, just wait 20 years.  We’ll be fatter, lazier, stupider, AND poorer.  You won’t be able to swing a dead cat without hitting someone chewing with their mouth open—some palid, doughy, oily faced, 20 something with flaccid man tits and little piglike eyes who orders from the drive thru window at Taco Bell and then eats in his car in the parking lot.  An ambitionless troglodyte poisoned by environmental estrogen will become the archetypal American male.

The Chinese are smarter than we are and they’re better capitalists too.

Instead of destroying its manufacturing base as America has done, China has steadily built its manufacturing ability and exports and is now world leader. 

Instead of spending trillions of dollars and killing countless thousands of innocent people in an attempt to control the world’s fossil fuel reserves through military force, China is negotiating and opening trade with countries all over the world - and making its own energy, as this article attests. 

If China’s military budget were the same the US budget per capita, they’d be spending $4 trillion a year!  Imagine the drain on their economy!  (Taking all costs into consideration, the US military budget is ca. $1 trillion a year, and China’s population is about 4 times the US’.) 

On the other hand, if the US military budget were brought into line with China’s $70 billion, it would be about $17.5 billion.  Imagine the boost to our economy, not to mention to our moral standing in the world.

Conservatives would rather have the United States rely on China.

Re China’s Lead: “Renewable energy industries here are adding jobs rapidly, reaching 1.12 million in 2008 and climbing by 100,000 a year, according to the government-backed Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association.”

China has jobs and the U.S. has squatters - the U.S. Senate.

“The House has already passed a bill that is a good starting point for creating jobs. But the Senate is sitting on its version, with Republicans and a handful of Democrats arguing that deficit reduction is more important than jobs. In the medium term, the deficit is a serious problem. But right now there is no way to sustain a recovery unless millions of jobs are created soon — and the private sector alone cannot do that.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/opinion/31sun1.html

Jimmy Carter warned us back in 1977 that this could happen. Now it has. The opportunity was lost the moment Reaganism triumphed, King Oil ruled again, and alternative energy became the punchline of Republican jokes. 

China doesn’t need to conquer the world. She will rule it economically, as we once did, and as Britain did before us.

Provincialism, imperialism, corporatism, militarism,
neo-facism, and a morally bankrupt foreign policy of
hegemony; when has America the time to worry about
minor things like alternative energy.
Hell, we can keep an entire industry going by just
stealing oil and invading whomever has it under the
guise of fighting the GWOT. Just because it’s no longer
fashionable to call it that doesn’t mean it’s no longer
operational.

SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE:

IN CHINA, IT’S ALL ABOUT A NEW ENERGY “SUPERMINISTRY:
“China’s top leaders are intensely focused on energy policy: on Wednesday, the government announced the creation of a National Energy Commission composed of cabinet ministers as a “superministry” led by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao himself.”

IN AMERICA, IT’S ALL ABOUT A NEW SENATOR WHO SAYS:
Brown said he did believe she [Sarah Palin] had the capacity to hold the office of the president.  “I mean she’s been a mayor and a governor and has a national following,” he said. “But I think the more people in a presidential race the better. The caveat to that is I never met her. She’s never contacted us and vice-versa. I know she’s very popular and has a new book out. I haven’t read it and hope to someday.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/31/scott-brown-on-2012-sarah_n_443498.html

CHINA SEIZES LEAD IN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

duh ! ! !

With perpetual wars & blatant theft, Bernanke & Bush3
continue to push America into a deeper & deeper
cataclysmic financial abyss, while the
Chinese are upgrading their infrastructure.

when “they” say, “no one knew fossil fuels would not keep up with demand let
alone their availably plummet so fast.” - they’re full of shit.

but then again, most of the fat lazy people in the US are full of shit too. we
deserve everything we are about to get.

Re China: “The Chinese have leaped passed Western Competitors in the race for alternative energy, becoming the world’s largest makers of wind turbines and solar panels. And they’re not done yet.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. citizenry is stuck watching a race between the Republicans who like to obstruct and the Democrats who like to head for the hills.