{"id":16599,"date":"2012-12-04T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16599"},"modified":"2012-12-04T08:57:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:57:50","slug":"the-real-cost-of-the-2012-election-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16599","title":{"rendered":"The Real Cost Of The 2012 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 27, the Asian Times<\/a> posted an article entitled, “Post-US world born in Phnom Penh<\/a>.” The article reports something not widely reported in the American media:<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama<\/a> attended the summit to sell a US-based<\/a> Trans-Pacific Partnership<\/a> excluding China<\/a>. He didn’t. The American led-partnership became a party to which no-one came. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>, plus China, India, Japan, South Korea<\/a>, Australia and New Zealand<\/a>, will form a club and leave out the United States. As 3 billion Asians become prosperous, interest fades in the prospective contribution of 300<\/strong> million Americans – especially when those Americans decline to take risks on new technologies. America’s great economic strength, namely its capacity to innovate, exists mainly in memory four years after the 2008 economic crisis. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The article includes a number of charts detailing the decline of American economic influence. The first chart explains what is happening:<\/p>\n

Asian, European and US exports<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is hard to fathom just what President Obama had in mind when he arrived in Asia bearing a Trans-Pacific Partnership designed to keep China out. What does the United States have to offer Asians?<\/strong><\/p>\n