Posted on 05/11/2012 12:55:02 PM PDT by MamaDearest
Not much in the way of morels this year. I saw a couple about a week back but there weren’t enough to mess with. I do use a lot of wood sorrel in salads. It gives a nice lemon flavor.
Still sniffing that Chinese glue, aren’t you?
I have democrat aquaintances from childhood who still live there. They are of one mentality: If it doesn't involve them personally today, it isn't important.
We had three different Japanese exchange students living us years ago. All had grandparents living with them and there was literally no room between homes. The boys were amazed we owned acreage and fascinated with the variety of food available at American grocery stores.
And what you fail to understand is what the situation in China is like. For the most part, China is rapidly becoming a free enterprise country economically with a totalitarian social policy.
China is becoming a simmering pot internally with the new rich chafing against the social restrictions still enforced by the hard-line communists in government. The new wealthy are leading the charge. In addition, wealthy Chinese citizens tend for the most part to have great admiration for the United States, its culture, its freedom, and its economic prosperity. The most expensive schools in China are taught by Americans in English. Wealthy families jump at the chance to have their middle school and high school students come to the US for their schooling.
The new wealthy are coming to be assimilated, not to “take over”. And they are the ones doing business here in the US. They are as free enterprise as any immigrant you will find.
Valid point - if the highest jobs in the land goes/went to a Kenyan, what's to stop a Chinese person for the same opportunity? As of 2008, all stories about children studying hard to have a chance at becoming president seem as far fetched as not eating your dinner and starving a child from China.... It appears the entire United Nations will have a shot at the job before we do.
The Chinese seem to have a very low tolerance for muslim shenanigans:
Snip; Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has been carrying out systematic policies that discriminate against Uighurs. Their language is forbidden in schools; government employees cannot have long beards or head scarves and are not allowed to pray or fast during working hours. Uighurs also face strong discriminatory practices in education, healthcare, housing, and employment. Young Uighurs are often forced to work in faraway provinces, while Han Chinese -- who comprise about 90 percent of China's population -- are encouraged to move to Xinjiang, the autonomous region where Uighurs are the largest ethnic group. More than 2 million have settled there.
Just today we learned that an Indian tech company will be coming to Jackson Michigan. The management will be Indian but they intend to hire some 300 Americans for work on computers.
It won’t effect me directly but if the people working for the company spend money locally it will be good for all overall.
Very cool. I hope Mr. Wing and his business thrive.
You are welcome.
I don't care what China is or not becoming, wealthy, poor, educated, enterprising, ragged and or in poverty.....I care about 'this country' and 'it's people'...and we are sure in no position to be offering high skilled , medium skilled or lower skilled jobs to any but Americans who are in need of work.
China is becoming a simmering pot internally with the new rich chafing against the social restrictions still enforced by the hard-line communists in government. The new wealthy are leading the charge.
Well then let them remain in their country and fight their way for the freedoms that we have instead of jumping their ship to jump onto ours.....our freedoms didn't come free....we fought for them here....If we close the door on all these foreigners coming in to "better their life", then they just might organize themselves and change their country. As long as we give them that here they will never change their own country.
Chinese citizens tend for the most part to have great admiration for the United States, its culture, its freedom, and its economic prosperity.
Oh is that so? Chinese Professor says : "Of course, we owned most of their debt, so now they work for us". In a room full of 'Chinese students' laughing...mad in the USA I might add. So who are those students?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM
Wealthy (Chinese) families jump at the chance to have their middle school and high school students come to the US for their schooling.
So what...that pretty much goes for most nations and has for eons...That's nothing new...Sheesh... They all want their education here.....but how many go back to their own nations when they're done to "better their countries"? We know the answer. Let them be taught in their own countries Universities...and we'll educate our own.
The new wealthy (Chinese) are coming to be assimilated, not to “take over”.... And they are the ones doing business here in the US. They are as free enterprise as any immigrant you will find.
Again, ask me if I care...let them set up their own businesses in China, or do what every other Chinese does to be successful in their country. We have Americans right here willing to do the same....and should be encouraged to do so over and above any other sovereign nations.."Desires".
Wealthy-Chinese families jump at the chance to have their middle school and high school students come to the US for their schooling
I don't care what they want...it's that simple....I don't care what the parents or their children want. This country is in no position to be offering foreigners anything over that of it's own citizens...let them learn and jump onto their own bandwagons there....we fought hard for our families here to have these freedoms....they should not be up for grabs by other nations who should be fighting for their own freedom.
We are loosing our nation to foreigners ideas of what are nation should be in “their’ minds....Ideologies, culture changes, etc. to accomodate them as they use our system to do just that.... and I’m just basically tired of it when I see daily foreigners given advantages over our own citizens...it’s got to stop!
1. No
2. Yes
3.American, never lived outside of the midwest.
4. Would like to see some of the money we sent to China come back here.
I agree. My grandparents came here from Europe to escape communism and here we are now watching celebrities, media, democrats, liberals, RINOs , corporations and supposedly intelligent investors embracing it. Politicians who alledgedly represent us are silent as the Constitution and Rule of Law are spat upon and disregarded.
We're in an economic war with government who sees our taxes as its stash to dole out to donors, foreign governments that despise us, companies that are financially unstable and activist groups aligned with the regime's agenda.
I don’t buy in to the Author’s premise. In China the business environment is very free market capitalist. The government is losing credibility on a nearly daily basis. If those businesspersons want to bring their free market here, without the government goons, then it will most likely be the most free market area of MI.
Instead, we will get articles like this so that our local government goons can squash them. Economic freedom is severely lacking here and over-reactions are the norm...
Bahhhh, bahhhh, bahhh.
Quite interrupting willful ignorance with facts and real world descriptions. There will be none of that when it interrupts good anti trade diatribes!
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