Michele Bachmann thinks the U.S. should be less socialist like China

Brilliant.

The fact that China is a communist country is lost on her. The GOP presidential candidates debated again last night, this time on foreign policy. Aside from Michele Bachman wanting the U.S. to be less socialist like socialist China, most of the candidates wanted the return of waterboarding. Watch the video here:

Via TPM:

Michele Bachmann thinks America blew it by extending a safety net to millions of Americans under President Johnson’s “Great Society.” Her solution? Model the economy after communist China.

“The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state,” she said. “If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…They don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.”