[Texas_Dawg]

The Mrs., in her role as industry writer, attended a conference with a Federal official who told everyone that one of the steps involved in resolving disputes between "American" companies and "Chinese" companies was asking the Chinese executives if there was any problem at all. If they said no, the matter was to be dropped. W is selling us out for $200,000,000+ in bribe money (not that the Democrats would be any better).

It's been almost 15 years since the Japanese were first going to take over America and have us all speaking Japanese. Almost 10 years since every major American company would have folded up shop in America and moved entirely to Mexico. And we're into about our 5th year of China getting ready to wage nuclear war against us. Ummm... I guess I'm just wondering when you guys are ever going to be right on anything and how we will know. Just curious what I'm supposed to be watching for. Thanks.

[HiTech RedNeck]

So what does that have to do with the price of "Western Wear" made in China?

[HiTech RedNeck]

China has an arrogance that Japan and Mexico can't hold a candle to.

[warchild9]

Watch for the destruction of the American Middle Class. Watch for a growing criminal underclass. Watch for signs of national weakness: an inability to protect our borders, a growing credibility gap between the classes (both economic and political), watch for the U.S. to lose its next real war (and I'm not talking about fighting Third World, sixth-class countries like Afghanistan and Iraq). All these things have happened to past large countries on the decline in history, and there's no reason for us to be any different.