Posted on 03/01/2006 5:53:37 AM PST by indcons
OVER THE PAST decade, India has swapped its suspicious view of the United States for a warmer one built on trade, technology and shared worries about terrorism. The world's two biggest democracies have a lot in common, it turns out.
Why then are President Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh making nuclear weapons Topic A in a two-day visit beginning today?
For Bush, the reasons are thus: He wants to reward a reliably democratic country with reactors to improve energy supplies for a fast-growing economy. The trick in these summit-level talks is making sure India opens its notoriously secretive nuclear industry to outside inspections and promises to limit weapons work. Expect plenty of foot-dragging from New Delhi on these requests.
Credit Bush with contriving ways to weave India's future more tightly to this country. A nation with a billion people, an economic growth rate of 8 percent and a hub position on the Asian map is worth Washington's attention.
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... purchased by the export of billions of dollars worth of offshored jobs, jobs that were formerly held by Americans with families to feed.
Think War on Terror....India is not the US' most favored trading partner. That distinction goes to communist China.
Where else are they gonna go after the Soviet Union folded ?
Yes. Once again, President George W. Bush leads the way.
"A nation with a billion people, an economic growth rate of 8 percent and a hub position on the Asian map is worth Washington's attention."
Yes. Obviously.
And furthermore, India is scheduled to become the world's largest nation (its population to overtake that of China) within decades, and India is a natural ally in the War on Terror and a natural balance to the ambitions of China, Russia, and the Islamic World (note no mention of increasingly irrelevant Europe.)
Who?
India.
It should be the other way around. China's leaders hold that a future war with the US is inevitable, so it seems the height of stupidity to help finance their military modernization program.
How bitterly ironic would it be, that the money American parents spent on Chinese toys for their children would someday be used to kill these same kids.
What is it about free market ecoomics that people like you don't get? You sound like a socialist DUer. Total tech jobs now in the US are 17% higher than in 2000 and the current jobs pay more than the jobs lost. Got that?
Why is it that chicken littles like you have always been proven wrong. The US economy for the past fifty years has grown stronger and GDP/head is still at the top of the world. That's after manufacturing jobs went to countries where capital can be used more efficently. Same thing with offshoring.
I'll bet you were humming "America the Beautiful" as you typed your comment.
You'll notice that I didn't demand any kind of protectionism, so that kind of shoots your "anti-freemarket" label to hell. Nor did I demand any state intervention, or ramble on about the workers owning the means of production, so your accusation of socialism is equally vapid. As to chicken little, I only commented on the reality, not some extrapolated prediction. The jobs HAVE gone overseas. Whether they'll continue to or not, and what changes will arise as a result, unlike you and your freemarket clairvoyant fellow travelers, I cannot tell. Nor did I try.
So STFU and sit down.
Nah, whistling the "Hymn to Red October."
Ok great. So you're in the business of pointing out the obvious. But don't be disingenuous here. Your statement implied that these same families would not be able to feed themselves becuase these jobs are going overseas.
My statement implied that jobs that had been feeding American families were now being given to Indians, presumably to feed Indian families. I'll leave it to others to figure out where the American families now find their dinner.
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