Others who think we should be more like China

Reader comment on: Andy Stern, China, Gingrich and Obama

Submitted by Jerry Skurnik (United States), Dec 13, 2011 17:18

Which Presidential candidate said the following? - "If you look at China, they don't have food stamps. If you look at China, they're in a very different situation. They don't have AFDC [Aid to Families with Dependent Children]. They save for their own retirement security. They don't have the modern welfare state. And China's growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they'd be gone."

Answer - Michelle Bachmann

And then there's from the recent biography of Steve Jobs - "You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult for them.

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