Economic decline is inevitable

In a letter to the editor [North County Times, 8/15/08], Jeff Lassle of Fallbrook rails about the China juggernaut overcoming the US economy. His stated reasons relate to creeping socialism and overregulation in the US marketplace. These are the very same criticisms we of the West level against the Chinese!

Here we have an outright Communist nation practicing all those traits we are supposed to hate: forced labor, complete government control, limited human rights and more. In other words, we are being overhauled by an economy practicing all the economic evils that we find offensive!

How can th...