Posted on 06/24/2005 6:54:48 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Reagan is spinning in his grave over all this free(unfair) trade with the chicoms and them buying our oil companies.
If Billsbears is correct(which he is not) this is not conservatism unless I have woken up in a parallel universe and everything is topsy turvey which sometimes I feel is what is happening when I read post like his.
It's not just the oil china will obtain but all the prorietray information Unocal posesses i.e. future potential drilling sites, ways to get oil the cheapest ans easiet way-new ways to drill, new ways to hunt for oil etc etc.
Oh yes, heaven knows the Chinese have no way to determine future drilling sites on their own. Maybe we should get them to stop building Wal-Marts in China as well. Giving away Sam Walton's secrets of business growth could be devestating. And I see a Chinese company is looking to buy Maytag as well. Clean clothes, Wal-Mart, and oil to boot? It's a simple travesty.
If Billsbears is correct(which he is not) this is not conservatism unless I have woken up in a parallel universe and everything is topsy turvey which sometimes I feel is what is happening when I read post like his.
No it's conservatism before it became SOP of government controlled economies in the land of the 'free'. You allowed businesses to be about business. I can understand limitations on military supplies but you can't cut the Chinese off from purchasing resources for their growing economy. Wars start that way.
"Oh yes, heaven knows the Chinese have no way to determine future drilling sites on their own."
You are absolutely right because they do not have the resources to drill. Do you think it was simply in the premise of "free trade" that the Chinese had a hand in Putin's repatriating of prime Yukos assets through the Krelim controlled Rostneft energy company? Why are the Chinese now buying Russian oil if they can simply drill for it themselves? Why are they securing shipping routes from the Middle East by throwing cash at Thailand and the Philppines if they can simply drill for their own oil?
Free trade as you see it is alive and well in the US and if you can find a US gov't controlled entity (ex-Fannie Mae) that trades on any US exchange please tell us.
You are giving the Chinese gov't way too much leeway by promoting the belief that the Politboro is made up of wanabee Trumps.
This war with China has already started. They own way too much of our debt, they are buying way too much military hardware from Russia, they are maintaining the peg to the yuan so the dollar continues to stay depressed while their foreign exchange reserves grow. And now they are on the hunt for prime US assets in key natural resources that they don't have access to.
And you think this is all in the name of capitalism.
"I can care less about your conversation with dubyous."
And THAT is why your post was wrong.
Have a nice day.
o.k. whatever you think.
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