[bruinbirdman]

I guess the Olympics are over.

[Army Air Corps]

Pei Ping.

[redstateconfidential]

I iz heartbroken.

[LiberConservative]

I guess the lead paint, poisoned ingredients and crappy and dangerous workmanship caught up with the Chinese. That didn't take long.

[KoRn]

After seeing thousands and thousands of those manufacturing jobs lost here to China, you won’t see me shed a tear for them.

[xJones]

One little thing that would help would be if their products weren't so routinely recalled. It's stunning how many recalled Chinese products there are.

[notdownwidems]

at the risk of sounding repetitive, just let me state: I just LOVE a happy ending

[cripplecreek]

Great. Now I’m gonna have to eat my countertops to get my daily allowance of melamine.

[stboz]

Well, the Chinks have 2 trillion dollars to spend. Will they buy guns or butter?

Where is ElbeeJay when you need him, mah fellow Ahmurican? Maybe TRickee Dikie know?

YOU DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH PEOPLE WHO GOT NO MONEY!!!

Thanks, Richard Milhouse Nixon....you stupid sh*t....thanks for nothing.

Well, maybe not for nothing....there's lead and melamine in our diet and God-knows-what else in the form of viruses and disease from China.

Thanks a lump, Nixon.

[glorgau]

which may herald yet more shrinkage ...

The Olympics are over and the water is cold.

[jr.ewing.78]

[blockquote]I guess the Olympics are over.[/blockquote]

They really are. A couple of years ago a salesman from one of our data services came to give his annual forecast talk to the office and he said his personal belief was that the Beijing Olympics were almost completely responsible for the commodity bubble that had been growing since early 2003 and that China was inflating the world economy solely because of Olympic building and development. Oil was only around $50 then and he said it was going to go up rapidly and then drop like a rock right after the Olympics. Metals, too. We all thought he was a quack then. Now I wish I could remember his name.

[Parmy]

Turn out the lights, the party’s over.

[AmericanGirlRising]

If their economy hits a hard crash, what’s to keep them from collecting their U.S. loans? They’re the largest holder of our deficit, which was good for them to finance as we bought their products and kept their people working.

If we stop spending, and they stop working, who’s going to feed them?

[mikey_hates_everything]

Besides China, the air should clean up some over Korea and Japan.

[RC one]

I imagine that once we stop being useful to one another, things should start getting...interesting.

[McGavin999]

Didn't anyone tell them that the fire under their manufacuring sector was the US economy? They kept throwing marbles under our feet and bragging how they were going to be the new super power and didn't even notice they were totally dependent on the US economy for everything. Even the money from Europe came as a result of the US economy.

Suddenly, even the Euros are figuring it out. Uh oh, they've been rooting for our demise so long they didn't realize what our demise would mean.

[Rebelbase]

It’s about time for a war.

[mabelkitty]

Manufacturing costs were going up, and the Chinese have begun placing mandates on employers for benefits for employees. I’m hearing these factories are closing and the land being turned back into farms.