LOL. By the beginning of the war, the US had already taken over the UK in control of the seas. America was a miraculously industrialized nation that was realizing the dream of an automobile for every family! Trying to pretend that the US was "10 years" behind the Axis (especially the Japanese) is a delusion belief typical of today's Pentagon propaganda.
I was talking about the relative technological difference of military weapons systems not the economy as a whole. An automobile in every household will have no bearing upon military aviation or comparisons between different types of main battle tanks.
How you interpreted my statements in this way is a will puzzling given that this is a military forum.
LOL. The US spends nearly 10% of its GDP on the military. Most of its recent projects have flunked (see LCS). The economy is tanking. The dollar is about to collapse. And you're holding on to some delusion belief that the US military is underfunded. Let's all hold our belly for a good laugh here.
The military always seems over-funded, until of course its services are needed. This will most often comes a reality check to people such as yourself. Nevertheless putting the military budget on "a strict high fiber diet" colloquially speaking can be a healthy thing, given how he well the United States plays catch-up in military affairs historically. Let any of you reading should take this advice in moderation.
LOL. The last time I checked, the Chinese economy is expected to overtake the US real GDP by 2015.
Many commentators said the same thing about Japan in the early 90s. Japan at least had the virtue of being a functioning democracy (although it's saddled with overly communal tendencies that reduce its nimbleness). The Chinese economy and government by contrast has very poor error correction machinery built into them, which is common to most highly unaccountable governments outside of the free world.
Oh my God... patent system invented by the US? Who taught you this garbage?
You talked about freedom and government checks and balances. The US holds no advantage in this regard at all over China or Russia.
"Holds no advantage"? Please let us know what alternative universe you're living in. It must be a universe where the East Germans did not stage a mass exodus to the west despite concrete walls, barb wire and machine-gun fire. It must also be universe where the mass exodus out of Taiwan in 1997 never took place.
The only way you could make a statement such as yours above with a straight face, is if you get your news from state-controlled media nearly exclusively.
