Ever wonder what happened to President Jimmy Carter?
The former Democratic president said China was getting ahead of the US because Washington has been at war with other countries for most of its history.
Carter - who normalized diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing in 1979 - suggested that China’s rapid growth had been facilitated by government investment and helped by peace.
“Since 1979, do you know how many times China has been at war with anybody?” Carter asked. “None. And we have stayed at war.”
He said the US has only enjoyed 16 years of peace in its 242-year history, making the country “the most warlike nation in the history of the world,” Carter said. This is, he said, because of Washington’s tendency to force other nations to “adopt our American principles.”
Carter said that China, in contrast to the US, had made massive economic progress by maintaining peace with its neighbors. “How many miles of high-speed railroad do we have in this country?” he asked.
The US has “wasted, I think, $3 trillion” on military spending. “It’s more than you can imagine. China has not wasted a single penny on war, and that’s why they’re ahead of us. In almost every way.”
“And I think the difference is if you take $3 trillion and put it in American infrastructure you’d probably have $2 trillion leftover. We’d have high-speed railroad. We’d have bridges that aren’t collapsing, we’d have roads that are maintained properly. Our education system would be as good as that of say South Korea or Hong Kong,” Carter told the congregation.
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https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/15/593525/Former-US-President-Jimmy-Carter-Trump-China
These facts should be obvious to everyone, but somehow "our" Congress and the other morons in DC refuse to acknowledge them.
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