Posted on 06/15/2007 11:38:56 AM PDT by NYer
whenever want = whenever they want
You are claiming a distinction which does not exist. The Communist party controls ALL labor and wage functions in their country. Even for example, at General Electrics' R&D Center in Shanghai...where the employees are primarily professional scientists and technicians. Maybe they get treated better...but we ...and the workers...know who is really calling the shots. It's right in their rules. The foreign firms are immediately surrendering a half interest of their entire investment in China...to their agents. This pointedly gives them an easy basis for re-nationalization when they are ready to openly declare they never quit being communist monsters.
As noted in this thread...they refuse to let even a tiny bit of freedom in. Anyone who thinks otherwise is not very conversant with reality on the ground. Try walking around with a Bible in mainland China. If you want to deal with the entire system, you must go after the Chicom party itself...and use the main blunderbuss which will take it down...deprive them of their labor price advantage. Defund the Communists.
And the simplest, most eminently affordable way to do that without it appearing to be an "attack" on China is by uniformly switching America back to Hamiltonian/Traditional Republican governmental funding mechanisms. [For "national debt reasons"] Eliminate all the income taxes, capital gains taxes (repealing the 16th Amendment) and go with Revenue tariffs. With only a few true allies conferred trade tariff-free reciprocity. China's whole pin-point attack on our economic weakness...the hubris of the doctrinnaire elites....who can be peeled off to echo China Foreign policy...will be confounded.
I’m sure the reason we haven’t heard from the Rubberbands Jesse and Al are because they are on there way there right now to stop the horrible tragedy!
BUMP!
I wonder how they would treat us if they could ever take over.
You’re right, and I would go even further-— South Africa was more than a nominal ally-— it was a very solid ally, whereas China is anything but.
My point was simply that the arguments the AFL-CIO make based upon the welfare of the Chinese worker are disingenuous.
Trade sanctions such as Duncan Hunter and Frank Gaffney support, based to the the extent that they are upon American national security considerations, address a different, and as you say, more immediate set of concerns.
But...but...the Cato Institute says we benefit so much from their cheap goods and that they’re not all bad people! Why must we antagonize them with tariffs? /s
PING!
The predictable outcome of “free trade” ....
The United States has absolutely squandered all moral authority with its trade policies of the last 20 years.
It is infathonable that such a nation is grated wide open access to our markets.
But hey, as long as the stock market goes the right way, who gives a hell.
Shameful and disgusting.
CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.
You hit the nail on the head.
Bump!
China is the very image of Mordor.
It’s a horrible irony being slaves of slaves in a prison within a prison.
How dare they compete with the official Prison Republic of China!
For all anyone knows, their government staged these raids to give the impression that they disapprove of slave labor.
Both India and China have one foot in the developed world and another stuck way below down the drain. China does seem to pursue a very aggressive developmental policy defying basic freedom to her citizenry. India offers a lot of religious and political freedom, but lacks a good developmental policy.
It did tonight. Driving home, this was the story on NPR.
Then again, I gave up watching the MSM news 3 years ago. I doubt they will offer the coverage this story deserves. That is why I get my news from the Internet.
I’m glad to hear it got some exposure.
No ... but you raise an important point.
BAN THE CHINESE OLYMPICS!
Hit them where it hurts!
Peiping.
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