[MrFine]

I wasn't joking Qwinn.
I DO think America is lucky to have China just now entering a market based economy.
To make a point, Look at our trade defecit. A
merica can only survive on a service economy for so long. If China's economy had been market based since WWII, It is far more likely that we would not have the quality of life we do today. Further, I DO think it is patriotic to support this point of view as it helps Americans rather than Chinese.
I hope you don't think the Chinese would put our interests before theirs?
It is good to look out for Americans first.
We all need to do that more often.

[Qwinn]

Um, okay...

First off, if China was not a repressive Communist regime which effectively has it's entire population in a perpetual state of slavery, they wouldn't be able to produce goods at such a lower price than ours.

China isn't "becoming" a free market now. Not even close. It's a mockery of capitalism using slave labor - the only similarity is in the upper ranks of the corporate hierarchy, but where the COSTS come into play, it's still pure communism.

If China were truly capitalist, the wages of workers would be at a reasonable level that would not be as crushing in a labor-competitive sense as it is now, when the Chinese government just tells their people "Make these beanie babies or die".

Now, if you want to claim that it's better that they were a pure communism than what they are now, I have no objection, since in both cases the people are slaves. However, if I'm going to wish for something, it would be that Soviet spies in our government hadn't sabotaged U.S. aid to the real Chinese government, and we'd been competing -fairly- with a real Chinese free market such as that of Taiwan all this time.

Qwinn