[lelio]

In it are provisions to greatly expand government handouts for those Americans left unemployed.

Ah, the "I want cheap goods so let's produce in China and then I'll turn on the government printing presses to payoff those out of work." Sounds like a great plan.
Now I can see why Bush isn't cutting government spending one cent: he needs those socialist programs to keep the people from becoming fully unemployed.

[Dane]

Hey you are the one who wants to go back 73 years and mandate Hoover like tariffs on the economy.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Yes, it really appears to fit in with the PLA's plan, recently exposed by William Hawkins here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/963368/posts
[In the seminal Chinese treatise on modern strategy Unrestricted War by People's Liberation Army Senior Colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, published in 1999, the unfolding financial crisis is compared to military conflict: "Economic prosperity that once excited the constant admiration of the Western world changed to a depression, like the leaves of a tree that are blown away in a single night by the autumn wind. After just one round of fighting, the economies of a number of countries had fallen back ten years. What is more, such a defeat on the economic front precipitates a near collapse of the social and political order. The casualties resulting from the constant chaos are no less than those resulting from a regional war."]