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I don't think you meant to do that, but he pretty much did it. We talk about the bizarre shirt Glenn was wearing today.

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Now you tell me what's wrong. Here's Bernie Sanders, audio of Bernie Sanders yesterday trying to praise Communist China.

But what we have to say about China in fairness to China and its leadership is if I'm not mistaken, they have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization.

Okay, Bernie, I think you... I do not think those words mean what you think it means. What he didn't talk about was that it is the free market principle that China started to enact that they got from us. It wasn't communism.

Never before in history of so many people escaped poverty in such a short time in the past decades in China. Okay, according to the official World Bank figures, the percentage of extremely poor people in China in 1981 was 88.3%. By 2015 only 0.7% of the Chinese population was living in extreme poverty. Now, wait a minute.

Poor people in China fell from 878 million people to less than 10 million people since 1981. Now what happened? What happened? Well, under Mao, the state had, you know, an in an impudent grip over China's economy. What happened over the last few decades can be sent up in a couple of sentences. China, what happened?

Embrace the tenets of a free market economic system. It introduced private ownership, gradually reduced the influence of the once all powerful state over the Chinese economy. Now, they're still communist and is still state controlled much of it.

But you also have these independent companies, these companies that are not collapsing. These companies that are run by the state are collapsing as we pointed out earlier this week. China had to print 50 trillion dollars.

50 trillion. Half of that went right to the state-owned companies that are dying.

The state still plays a major role, but it is its free market capitalism after the death of Mao and the death of communism.

Let me give you this story, Bernie. Here's another story for you. Tell me if this sounds like communism or a celebration of capitalism.

According to the story, it was no surprise that the crowds at China's first Costco location would be big. But the company wasn't prepared for this. The photos of the opening of the Shanghai location of Costco, painted a clear picture of the reports coming out of China, which said that a day-lose of shoppers clogged up parts of the store and built up traffic on roads right outside of Costco,

resulting in a three-hour wait for a parking space.

Shoppers crowded the meat department, which included the Costco rotisserie chicken and the food court.

Elbows and arms were thrown in every direction as customers attempted to pick up various items. The sheer amount of people forced the store to shut down hours early.

And a text message to members reportedly read in part to provide you with better shopping experience, Costco will suspend business in the afternoon. Please don't come.

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