The Nigh Seen Creeder

B. Hussein Obama is certainly well educated. I mean, he did go to Harvard and he did lecture at the University of Chicago. But when it comes to public policy, Obama is without a doubt one of the most ignorant individuals on the U.S. political scene.

In case you haven't heard, Obama yesterday praised The People's Republic of China's infrastructure. Here's what he said:

"Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business, you're starting to think, 'Beijing looks like a pretty good option.'"

In case ol' B. Hussein hasn't heard, Chinese citizens have no property rights. If the Chinese government wants to build a port, train station, or airport, it simply seizes the land - without compensating landowners - and puts it up.

In addition, there ain't no pesky zoning regulations to deal with in China. Here in the U.S. of A., any big construction project can't start until the project's constructors have made their way through a maze of zoning commissions, planning commissions, and city council committees ... not to mention city councils themselves (and sometimes state legislatures).

Furthermore, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and other environmental groups don't have no - and I mean no - presence in China. In the United States, a massive public works project can literally be stopped by the courts as soon as a rare species of vermin is discovered on the land upon which said project is to be built upon. (If a Greenpeace sombitch was silly enough to try to stop a public works project in China on behalf of a worm or stream, his ass would soon become well acquainted with the inside of a dank, dark prison cell.)

Finally, China is a nation in which labor unions are forbidden. When a port, or a light rail system, or an airport is constructed, the workers ain't paid union-scale. Indeed, the Davis-Bacon law is as foreign a concept to the Chinese as is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from illegal search and seizure ... etc.

If Obama wants to emulate China and completely scrap eminent domain, zoning laws, environmentalism, and unions, I say ... Go for it, Barry! The developers'll back you up!