>>> 600,000,000 people in China make 2 dollars a day or less. China is expensive place to live, so this makes them poorer than Mexicans. The economic miracle is just cheap labour being exploited, which is something that the US economy is not primarily based on.
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>>I'd say you have your head in the sand.
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>Are you going to dispute that fact, or insult me? China has two Europe's full of people glad to work for a dorm bed and free breakfast, lunch and dinner for now. This will eventually come tumbling down as it is hardly a sustianable model.

I disputed it, but you cut that part out. No, I was not intending to insult you, but rather to qualify how I saw your conclusion.

I would have thought it would have tumbled by now...I fully expected it. But it hasn't happened, isn't even close to happening, and ain't gonna happen in my lifetime. Funny thing, but I think a lot less about things beyond my lifetime when they are so far away.
On the other hand, we (the west) will have committed economic suicide in my lifetime if the current model continues.