4 December 2008

A favorite international sport, aided and abetted by coastal "intellectuals" is to complain about, criticize and verbally abuse the United States, its history and basically all it stands for, particularly its cruel and brutal market economy.  The evidence of this is so common I shan't even go into detail.

What they never say, however, is how that economy has contributed to the well-being of the world.  What would happen today if the US just sunk into the ocean?  Foreign aid?  A drop in the bucket.  Even our human rights efforts could be dispensed with with alacrity.  What the world could not long endure, however, would be the loss of the vast American market.  Who would buy their products?  Germany is the world's strongest exporter.  Where do they sell their products?  Not all in the US, but heavily.  They also sell to China; and which country is the strongest buyer of Chinese products? 

And where does most of the innovation come from?  China and India are growing dramatically, but very little from innovation.  Nor is that innovation all derived from basic research; we don't monopolize ideas;  innovation is more.  The United States has long displayed its talent in taking ideas and moving them to the market place, where all, not just cloistered elites, access them.  And where does that come from?  Those nasty cruel and brutal free enterprise markets that thrive only on incentive and productivity, in which America excels.

The world, however, neither wants to admit that or even think about it.  Ami bashing is too popular.  And the alternatives too unpleasant.