An unlikely victim

If I asked someone to name an innovation that came out of a socialist country or a country where businesses are not encouraged to thrive it would be hard to answer. The answer is very little, if any ground breaking ideas come out of those countries. They tend to freeload off of our innovations such as virtually every medical and technological breakthrough. It was just reported by CNN that patent filings fell for the first time in 13 years. That indicates that the Democratic Party is winning. Historically socialism kills innovation and it would be a sad day if our Democratic party chalks up its latest victim-American Innovation.
China did something rather odd when they took over Hong Kong. The government took a long look at how successful Hong Kong was and decided when they took over they would just get out of the way of the people and let them innovate away. Now just a few years later the Chinese are leading the world in virtually every field. Although I do have serious issue with human rights and communist light issues there but surprisingly taxes are lower in China than here, imagine that? It just goes to show that if people are left alone they can do amazing things.
(Originally Submitted by sean on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 11:44 @ http://www.sean4senate.com/node/78)