Flexing its Military Muscle
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041023.wxchinamil23/BNStory/specialChina/
Get Ready for China's Century
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041022.wxchi-empire1023/BNStory/Front/
CHINADA'S SOVIETIZATION
http://www.orwelltoday.com/chinada.shtml
A little wake-up ping.
Where is Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and all of Hollywood.....
There are slave owners right over there...go get em...whattaya mean you gotta go to WallMart
What a great article - really puts it out for all to see -
From the article: "He believes that an explosion is coming — and it might engulf more than just his former boss."
Isn't that usually the case - it's human nature and can not be denied -
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Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
As the freemarket gains a greater share in the economy of China the difference in efficiency of the government enterprises and the private ones becomes more and more apparent, the government businesses begin to fail or be "divested" off into the real market or, alternatively, that failure becomes the excuse for government strangulation of the free market in China which will cause China to go backwards and wane as a threat to the West. Cheap labor in China does not translate into higher productivity than America has. It does allow our less efficient industries to move to China or buy from China, thus reallocating capitol to more efficient uses that create more jobs and wealth in America.
This cannot be true. If it was Oprah and her husband Regis would tell us all about it on their shows and they would tell us to boycott China. Remember what happened to Regis ex wife Kathy Lee? They found out she was running a sweatshop and they kicked her off the show.
No sir this must be untrue or americas fabulous media would expose china and we would boycott all goods made by slave labor.
Sounds just like the same Jobs that Americans won't do, that Bush is proposing from labor from out of our country with his guest worker plan.
Someone needs to give him the recipe for thermite ... 10 melted engine blocks might make his a$$hat of an employer think twice about stiffing peoples' wages.
They live in monitored and controlled compounds...must beg permission to go outside. They sleep in crude dormitory rooms of 20 square metres, usually shared with 15 to 20 workers. They earn as little as $1 for a 12-hour day, far below the supposed minimum wage.
They work for six or seven days a week, sometimes for days and nights without a break...More than 70 per cent of migrant workers are owed money by their employers who hire thugs to assault those who demand their wages.
I'm just waiting for some free traitor to say Americans must work harder or go to school longer to compete with these communist slaves!
The only way we can compete with slavery is if we become slaves ourselves, which is probably what the free traitors have planned all along!
Tariffs for Tyrants bump
I have a social theory. What if the workers owned the means of production. Then such things would never happen again. < /sarcasm>
"Hey! That SOB stole my idea!"
China better learn this lesson. And really, they are fools not to. There is huge buying potential out there if they would just pay the workers talked about in this article enough to enjoy and least some free spending - And that is the lesson of Henry Ford.
This is written by a bleeding heart reporter who doesn't understand capitalism. China is experiencing prosperity because of their switch to a free market system. This WP article shows a better picture:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48818-2004Sep24.html
Also from http://www.neoperspectives.com/welfare.htm
Third world countries have one great advantage: cheap labor. You may read the press whining about 'sweatshop labor', but keep in mind Adam Smith's golden rule of economics: a transaction will only take place if both sides mutually benefit. So, it is obvious that these people working for these companies improved their conditions by working for them, or else they would choose not to work there. Now, as more and more companies move into the area to take advantage of this cheap labor a few things occur. First, the people they are employing have more money then before (if they didn't then why would they take the job?). Second, the new factories requires construction, electricity, and transportation of their exports. Third, foreigners, who are used to high standards of living, must be brought in to supervise the investment and they must be housed and paid. Fourth, the companies have to pay taxes.
All of this translates into more demand for local companies and more spending in the local economy. Also, the new tax revenues are invested into schools, roads and infrastructure. Perhaps some local people are promoted to positions of authority in the foreign investment and they learn new skills. Since the schools are better funded, due to the increasing tax revenues, more students graduate and more go to college. We might also think that kids won't have to start work as young and work as hard as they used to because their parents are making more money - either working for the foreign companies, or from the general cash influx into their normal occupations. But how can this be? 'Sweatshops' and foreign investment = more educated kids working less when they are younger? This is different then the hysteria we often hear.
At any rate, as the population becomes more educated and infrastructure continues to improve, some of the foreign investors might think, "hmmm.. we can do something with a little more skill over here too and pay the people here less then at home!". Then we have a situation similar to India, where jobs open up in software developing, technical assistance, and more advanced manufacturing operations. Eventually, the price of labor has risen so much that the low wage manufacturing centers have to leave the country - people won't work for a price that is profitable to the company. As the 'sweatshop' manufacturing center pulls out of the formerly third world country what does it leave behind? Despair and destitution, or a skilled educated workforce and a humming modern economy? This is how prosperity advances. (246) [check out this great article on this in a Washington Post article on China]
What a fimiliar story.
"Sounds like America many years ago...and it took some very brave individuals and dangerous acts to get the government to protect the rights of the "working man."
May they have their success too, and I hope that it is less bloody.
Capitalism is a great motivator, even for the governments which are in collusion with the businessmen who feed them from their profits.
When people ask what I have against unrestricted free trade, "China" is what I tell them.
Listen, I love capitalism. There is currently no better economic system on Earth (though it is not perfect), and capitalism provides the most profit/wages for the greatest number of people. Capitalism provides a much needed stimulate, a REASON for people to work harder and smarter than they would under a limited command economy like socialism/communism. There is also far greater degrees of personal liberty inherent in the practice of capitalism than the flawed-at-conceptual-levels socialism.
But all this does not disguise the fact that there are few hard and fast rules in economics. Call me naive, but I believe that sometimes you just have to stand up as a unified nation for what's right, governmental or corporate trade be damned. I believe that certain nations should be placed off limits to the reception of U.S. corporate funds ( and U.S. businesses prohibited from trade with said nations), until such a time as that nation's dictatorial leadership passes away or has changed it's policy/attitudes. There would be three measures for determining such a nation, and China is definitely one of them:
a.) internal policy is brutal; rife with human rights violations (and the genocidal "one-child" policy of forced abortion in China's case).
b.) there is little chance of peaceful regime change without external pressure.
c.) said nation is on record (per members of it's ruling regime) as being hostile to the U.S. Sworn enemies are addressed here.