Katty's Complaint: Why Doesn't USA Have 40-Year Plan Like China's?
Move over, Tom Friedman--there's another MSMer looking longingly at Communist China. In an infamous column, Friedman wrote of his envy of the power of the Chinese despots to impose "critically important decisions." He's been at it again lately
Now comes Sino-Commie-phile Katty Kay. On Morning Joe today, the BBCer criticized the USA for not having a "40-year plan for medical innovation" like the Chinese do. Joe Scarborough was on-point with his comeback. Video after the jump.
Watch Katty complain about our lack of a planned economy . . . while putting in a plug for higher taxes.
KATTY KAY: You have this new group [presumably referring to Tea-Party Republicans] that's come into Congress who is also not prepared to compromise on issues like raising taxes. There is going to have to be some tax-raising as part of this deal! It's going to have to happen! So why not accept that it's going to have to happen and do what the country needs to be done? . . . You almost wonder whether--what I love about this country, compared often to Europe, is that there is a sense of optimism, that things are possible . . . I almost think the optimism is shifting into a sense of denial. I look at the political leadership in this country and you almost wonder whether they are in denial about what is happening around the world and what could happen in this country if they don't get their act together and do the kinds of things that need to be done . . . That's what I'm saying about the state of denial. That there is not this recognition that there are other countries out there that are doing these things. China has a 40-year plan for medical innovation. And you know they're going to do it. Where's America's plan for medical innovation?
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I will guarantee you it's not in the middle of a Washington, DC bureaucracy.
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Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:24am.
We really need to get over this delusion that because people say things with a very classy British accent, they are smart.
Having a 40-year "plan" doesn't mean squat. It can be changed at the drop of a hat.
Every year this government comes up with a new "10-year plan." Extending that out to 40 wouldn't change a thing.
Hey Katty, how's that government plan for health care working out in England?
Every 2 or 3 years
Submitted by dr-go on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:31am.
the old Soviet Union enacted changes in their 5 year plans. Look where they are now. Where?
Which is why I cultivate a
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:49am.
Which is why I cultivate a non-classy British accent!
What ho, Jeeves, time for tea and crumpets old chap.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Jack,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:59am.
Kind of like Eliza Doolittle in reverse? :)
CN -- only if you're
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:27am.
CN -- only if you're Professor Higgins!
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Jack, the things you say are
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 9:06am.
Jack, the things you say are smart because they're smart, not because you say (or write LOL) them in a British accent.
Look at who's supposed to be "smart"....Piers Morgan, Christiane Amanpour, Martin Bashir....what else do they have going for them?
What else do the have going for them?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 9:46am.
Well they're devote terrorist sympathizers for a start.
You Hear Katty With a Valley Girl Accent You Have Her Spiked
Submitted by Avitar on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 1:52pm.
With a sure pot of money businessmen would be scouting medical talent the way the major league hunts hundred mile an hour fast balls. They would be elbowing to get speed research to get at those tax credits. It would also be cheap.
The Government owes nothing until we get a cure. The Nation would have the benefits on not having the loss of productivity of the sick.
This a Reagan system and would halve the cost of healthcare in fifteen years. Simple and only a couple of hundred Government doctors to determine the cure does in fact cure the disease.
That is a plan Kitty. If they do this for forty years the Chinese will have nothing to do because American healthcare will be providing all of their healthcare.
We have to raise taxes, and
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:27am.
We have to raise taxes, and can't possibly cut expenses, like the following:
$16 muffins $8 coffee
I'm sure Obama can justify that expense as totally necessary.
Who are these people?
Submitted by PA Conservative on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:29am.
Tried to type that in my best Jerry Seinfeld voice...
I'm getting very tired of these Brits (none of whom are citizens) trying tell us how to run our country. First off, this idiot didn't even realize how she contradicted herself..."What I love about this country, and you don't see it in Europe, is its optimism" (Paraphrased). Did she not just make the argument that European style socialism just doesn't work? Moron. Then, she goes on to argue with herself that there should be some type of central planning in this country. Lady, why do you think there's no optimism in Europe? Central Planning/socialism! You gotta love the total intellectual dishonesty of the left. All things, in their simple minds, start with "America bad, Europe/China good". Then, within one conversation, they completely contradict that theory. The sad thing is, they don't even realize it. Motherbelt, please pass any leftover duct tape you may have....
40 year plans
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:41am.
or even 100 year plans are fine as long as they are not too specific. The problem with governments and their long-term plans is they try to become too specific in their goals, usually because it helps a party donor, and the country gets locked into fiscal disasters.
Example: 80% energy independence in 50 years is a reasonable goal/plan.
40% of energy coming from solar and wind is a horrible goal/plan. It does not account for new technologies and forces the market in a known direction at the cost of potential new ideas.
It is the difference between the goal of putting a man on the moon and the goal of putting a man on the moon using ethanol based fuels. One opens the door to possibilities and the other shuts down creativity.
I howled when I heard her say this on Morning Joe today
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 9:40am.
Anyone who has been paying attention to the accelerating pace of technologies today would tell her that a 10-year plan is ridiculous, let alone a '40 year plan.'
Look at all the market-driven innovation in the United States, and we have no "plan."
In the first 6 decades of the 20th Century, Communist nations were famous for issuing their 5-Year Economic Plans, almost all of which failed miserably.
Kay may admire the the PRC, where her trade would be severaly restricted, but she understands little about it.
"Not to Mention"
Submitted by mad53PA on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:42am.
Love the China comparisons.
One child, government crack downs on dissent, drones working for the common good, hardly a capitalist society.
Yet idiots like Kay, Friedman and others always equate our two countries on the same moral and business level, when in fact we are nothing alike.
I do notice however that they live here and not in China.
To date, China's 'medical innovation' has included . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:35am.
. . . harvesting internal organs from convicted felons and selling them on the black market.
One can only imagine what other innovations they will come up with in 40 years.
Catty Katty Clueless
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:47am.
Another supercilious smug Brit, comes to America and DEMANDS higher taxes and the SAME socialist medical SERVICES SHE LEFT BEHIND.
Why didn't she go to Cuba instead?
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Agreed
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:37am.
Kay, Tina Brown, Piers Morgan -- all of them advise us on how we can be more like the UK. Makes one wonder why they left? Was it the money? Opportunity?
Just this week it was
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:55am.
Just this week it was announced that researchers put on the web a video game that delt with finding a cure for AIDs. With in 3 weeks the gamers solved the problem enough that researchers now have the building blocks to go after a real cure.
Who needs a 40 year plan when real innovation is taking place today.
Perfect.
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:05am.
You've identified THE perfect metaphor for government vs. private sector solutions and innovation.
This government (not to mention others) has spent how many billions of dollars trying to find the cure to AIDs, and a bunch of gamers approached it from a different perspective and reached a totally different solution costing how much? (My guess would be they did it as an intellectual exercise).
The other thing this nitwit totally misses is the fact that "we" do the work for most of the rest of the world. There is no FDA in any of the Latin American countries....they basically look at the work that's done here by ours. If a drug is approved here, they say okay, fine.
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that's pretty dang cool
Submitted by kata on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:12am.
This is not the first time "gamers" have been used to solve problems, either. I located the article on the DailyMail and I am going to share it around.
Katty gets sick
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 9:01am.
I wonder if she will be flying to Beijing or Sloan Kettering NYC, pleas name one advance in human innovation that has come from government.
Not that I am defending our failing system
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 9:51am.
but the military and NASA gave us the Internet and much of our high tech.
We have a obama's forty year
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 9:05am.
We have a obama's forty year plan, spend today, let next generation pay for it tomorrow.
China has 40 year plan for medical innovation?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 9:12am.
She's not suggesting what I think she's suggesting, is she?
Sorry, Honey, I know how much you love abortion, but let's at least keep it voluntary at this point, K?
Chinese Valet Service
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:38pm.
China concommitantly invigorated their automotive industry and public service worker industry with another part of their 40 year medical innovation plan: Death Vans.
Somebody explain to this
Submitted by jessieH on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 10:38am.
Somebody explain to this idiot that we are not China. We don't want to be China.
Notice
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:40am.
Wanna talk about other how countries do stuff, let's chat about the Social Security system in Chile....
meet me at the mission at midnight
People like this should not get air time for any reason.
Submitted by JLin on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:54am.
Rewarding ignorance and stupidity begets more of the same. This woman is embarrassing to watch.
MSNBC thinks we don't have enough native-born moonbats.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:57am.
Stop taking our jobs, you bastards!
Another Eurosocialist in love
Submitted by robert108 on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:09pm.
Another Eurosocialist in love with central economic planning.
China won't be China in 40 years.
Submitted by Iron Zerg on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:29pm.
I'm putting that out there right now. China is a house of cards just waiting to collapse.
Agreed. As they become more
Submitted by robert108 on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:38pm.
Agreed. As they become more dominant in the world market, they will have to put their currency on the world market as well, which will expose their phony bookkeeping scam.
Medical innovation???
Submitted by taznar on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 1:39pm.
"China has a 40-year plan for medical innovation.."
More medical innovation occurs in the US than in the rest of the world combined. "Medical innovation?" -In China? Is that supposed to be a joke?
From medical technology (imaging, monitoring...) to cancer treatment, to survival of premature infants -The innovation is occurring here! In the US! Someone should ask Katty why that's the case.
A 40 year plan.
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 2:12pm.
A 40 year plan, Is that anything like a thousand year Reich? Yea, we all know how well those types of "plans' work in the real world.
Hay, Katty, WE have a "plan" that is ageless. It's called the Constitution. Each State has one, as does the federal government itself. Everything else is transitory, as planned. This is because that we are smart enough to realize that, in a constantly changing universe, most things, you know, CHANGE over time, so most "plans" must change with them. For, if they don't, those "plans" become irrelevant. Why else do you think that things like our military's budget can only be authorized for no more than two, count them, two, years at a time? This is because, as the needs of the military change year after year, the needs of the military's budget also changes, so long term plans are useless.
By the way, Katty, I wouldn't be so admiring of any long term plan that China produces, if I were you. The last time they tried one of these long term plans, the "modernization" under Mao, MILLIONS of people starved to death!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Katty Kay - another book
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 4:19pm.
Katty Kay - another book smart and people stupid lefty.
Ronald Reagan
We will get to the 40 year plan...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 6:59pm.
In 2012 when we get the teleprompter in chief out of the White House who is in up to his big ears in "Bush did it."
China's 40 year plan is to bankrupt the United States, before obama gets defeated.
Why doesn't the USA have a
Submitted by felizagain on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:11pm.
Why doesn't the USA have a cultural revolution like China?
Why doesn't the USA have a one child policy?
Why doesn't the USA have a nation filled with the smog we witnessed at the Olympics?
Why doesn't the USA just turn off the internet when it wants to, like China?
Why doesn't the USA just do away with elections, like China?
Why doesn't the USA have a little red book of Obama, like Mao's?
Why can't Apple make I-Pods in the USA for .75 cents each, like it can in China
w/slave type labor?
Give em time
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:20pm.
The libtards will get us caught up to the stone age in no time
China's forty year plan..
Submitted by uhohshortsonthe... on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:31am.
...involves making sure not enough people are born so the state is not burdened by medical costs. That can be the only reason I can see for forced abortions, sterilizations, and girl babies thrown into trash cans!