Barf Alert - Once Again, Bill Gates Praises the Communist Dictators of China

ABC News (excerpt) ^ | February 16, 2005 | Bill Gates and Peter Jennings

[HAL9000]

Groveling for Chinese dictators and praising Communist slave labor is increasingly becoming a habit for Bill Gates.

Every American should be disgusted at the way this little puke is selling out his own country to make a buck.

Jan. 29, 2005 - Bill Gates says China has created brand-new form of capitalism (and praises Communist leaders)

[Anti-Bubba182]

Anything for market share.

[kingattax]

gates has linux nightmares every night. osculating enough

chinese posteriors is something he has to do.

[Doohickey]

Call me silly, but I read that as business leaders, not communist dictator leaders.

[claudiustg]

---GATES: Well I could say that every time I go to China I am amazed by the level of energy and activity there. And you know its like super charged capitalism where they're creating new jobs and they are being very efficient.---

Translation: they work 16 hours a day for almost nothing!

[WildTurkey]

I remember the US automobile industry scoffing at the Japanese just like you are of the Chinese ...

[Doohickey]

Bill Gates is a naieve. The only thing efficient about Chinese markets is their payroll.

In the interest of stimulating discussion - should we pretend China doesn't exist and not try to sell anything to them?

[paulat]

Groveling for Chinese dictators and praising Communist slave labor is increasingly becoming a habit for Bill Gates.

That's not what he's doing...geez...get a grip...

He's acknowledging the FACT that the Chinese are moving toward CAPITALISM faster than any huge country on earth!

The hungry are going to outpace the sedentary...and the US is sedentary.

[Clemenza]

Speaking as someone who does considerable business in that part of the world, I too am AMAZED at the thriving Private Sector factories in the Pearl River Delta. Ten years ago, all you had were state run factories producing CRAP. Now, investors from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore are pouring money into highly productive factories that produce everything from toys to golf clubs.

[Clemenza]

When will you Birchers understand that despite the idiots in Beijing, there is a THRIVING PRIVATE SECTOR in the Pearl River Delta and Shanghai?

[Doohickey]

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

[paulat]

Translation: they work 16 hours a day for almost nothing!

...and how many HOURS a day did YOUR great-grandparents work, with their dreams of capitalism and hopes for the future???

[Clemenza]

Gee a Chinese peasent girl has a choice 1. Stay with her parents, where she will be sold by her father. or 2. Move to Guangzhou and make more money than she ever made in her lifetime.

[paulat]

You are exactly right on everything you said. Gates isn't stupid...he sees a revolution where it is.

[Clemenza]

bttt

[endthematrix]

I assume they get paid a market wage then? Or do they get paid from a "Central Wage Distribution Center"? Are the owners foreign?

[endthematrix]

When did working in a factory for a Communist government develop capitalism there? Dreaming doesn't make change happen. It's also frowned upon in authoritarian states.

[BlazingArizona]

GATES: We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software — that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream...

"This kind of garbage cannot be 'read'. Please close all open thoughts, reformat your brain and reinstall your mind."

[frannie]

IT REMINDS ME OF JANE FONDA<TELLING HOW GREAT NORTH VEITNAM IS? REMEMBER?

[Doohickey]

I DON'T I WAS TOO YOUNG