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To: ianincali
Does it though? What would the olympics do without the US television contracts? How much will be spent in Bejing if we don't show?

It's a drop in the bucket compared to what this country spends on goods from China every day, and if US television companies want to spend their money on it and think they can make it back, that's their thing.

If you want to rail against the communists and our money going over there (and I'd join you in a heartbeat), you would have to get this country to actually do something about the trade imbalance - that is where we are being affected the most. Nobody in the administration or congress really cares about the trade imbalance or about goods made in China (with or without slave labor).

Some in the DoD are concerned about our reliance upon foreign countries as far as the tools and weapons of war, but they seem to be ignored.

If they did something about China and the trade imbalance, and prices of imported goods rose to the point where it was financianlly advantageous to make more goods in this country, people would begin complaining about the rising cost of said goods, and no politician wants that on their hands.

Sorry for the derail.

68 posted on 08/05/2003 1:16:54 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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