China's 5 year plans

This is, in no way, intended to defend communism, nor to promote either capitalism or democracy. The goal is to make you think just a bit about what you believe.


It can, at times, be difficult to get a photo without working to find an angle that excludes construction, repairs, or places that need one or the other. This says two things very plainly.
1. There is a lot that needs doing.
2. There is a lot being done.

Things are being done at a pretty incredible rate. The feel of China has something of what I imagine the USA to have been in the early stages of our economic boom.

My questions for you are:

Can the United States, with it ping-pong-power politics, ever do something so logical as to formulate a 5-year plan?

Given 3P politics, could a single administration put together such a plan in 4 years that would not have its primary goals so compromised as to be virtually worthless?

Are Americans so blind (and, perhaps, arrogant) that they are unable to admit there MAY yet be some things they could learn from the rest of the world?

I think...No, No, and, I hope,...NO!