Posted on 07/11/2005 7:27:02 AM PDT by jpsb
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's trade surplus for June swelled five-fold from a year earlier as exports grew much faster than imports, offering more ammunition for foreign critics who argue that Beijing should let the yuan rise in value.
The June surplus grew to $9.68 billion, exceeding forecasts of $8.0 billion and towering above the $1.8 billion surplus recorded for June 2004.
Our machines and computers work for less than "slave" laborers. Maybe they should call for us to abolish the use of them.
So you can't answer?
You really are a hater aren't you? Please refer to the bill of bills (a1-10) in the US Constitution. Capitalism only works for the benifit of society when coupled with strong indiviulal/property rights.
Yes, but they're not human, HAL 9000 not withstanding. The Supreme Court has not yet heard his case.
Isn't it funny that when I point that out, people say I'm crazy for suggesting that Republicans and Democrats are quite similar in may respects?
- or have you forgotten why we're in Iraq (but oddly enough, not Sudan).
I don't support that particular policy, and never have. So you are asking the wrong guy. I haven't forgotten anything.
But it's just not fair dammit!!! We make slaves out of machines and cause starvation in third world countries!!!! There ought to be a law!!!!
Oh, nevermind....
Yes, I hate you.
Please refer to the bill of bills (a1-10) in the US Constitution.
Bill of bills? Please explain what the bill of bills is, then I'll go look it up.
Isn't it funny that when I point that out, people say I'm crazy for suggesting that Republicans and Democrats are quite similar in may respects?
Yes, but you were using the "just like Carter' dig in a little old ad hominem way. Just thought I'd use it back. When I have a chance to dig up some other folks or founding fathers who sided with GWB and (horrors) Jimmah, I will certainly pass them along to you. Then you can counter them, too, unless you, like I, have to get back to work eventually.
So so has just about every administration since Wilson ("Make the world safe for democracy" 21 points), Marshal plan, MacAuthor in Japan, Iraq, Kosovo, etc. Slight detuor dring cold war but policy since 1914 as be quite evident to any that cared to look.
GWB and Carter are kindred spirits in ways like that.
Then you can counter them, too, unless you, like I, have to get back to work eventually.
Maybe if you worked instead of posting on the net we could be more productive than the Chinese. LOL
They were all wrong.
Does't matter, making the world safe for Democracy", like it or not, has long been established usa policy. That policy could not be persued during the cold war, but now that the cold war is over, we had once again returned to a Wilsonian world view.
Really? Already did. So it's your turn I guess.
So, yada yadayada.
I am not here to brag, are you? Walter Heller was my favorite econ professor at the U. Who was your's...? I am a long-standing proponent of the school of thought known as rational-expectations, and I cheered on the "supply-siders" back in the 80's.
Did you see where the globalist free traders want to go in terms of fine-tuning trade? See interview with Lester Thurow.
He wants to print a lot more dollars to break the currency pegs with the pegging countries, and he wants to adjust the fiscal deficit of the feds by tax increasing...his method: eliminate all of the tax cuts GWB has coming, and wants to retroactively backtax people!
Unlike many of his fellow big-school economists, at least Lester Thurow is open and above-board where he wants to go. I advise you read him closely.
Upshot of his policies as I see it would be more inflation (as measured by diminished purchasing power) and more taxes. Reduced American standard of living. Although he claims he wants to just lift all the other "globalist" earnings up to ours, in fact it seems more like he would bring us down, at least in the short run.
You probably would like that very much.
BTW, He was selling his war policy by saying we had to kill Germans to make the world safe for other countries which were democratic.
I'm still waiting for that "bill of bills" info so we can get to the bottom of the question about that policy and the founding documents.
Time for a refresher course.
Yes, for you, if you ever took any.
They can't get more competitive when they have to meet all the government shackles like OSHA and FICA and all the rest. Not to mention health care and minimum wage etc, etc. There's just too much built in overhead. Did I mention liability and malpractice?
You just can't compete with a system that is willing to pay the peasants a couple of bucks an hour, and if they get a small apartment, enough to eat, and enough money to catch a bus to a movie a couple of times a year, hey, it's a lot better than their parents had it. If they save very carefully they can even scrape up enough to buy a car these days.
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