Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Nope. All they have to do is make significant cuts to pensions and health care benefits, and you’ll have no more population decline. If you think that’s heartless, it’s not. Cut the pensions and benefits by 50 percent, and those retirees would still have better retirement packages than most American workers.