Well the Soviet Union did not fall because of our free trade with them. We starved them. We are treating Communist China differently by sending them our manufacturing base and borrowing huge chunks of money from them. We are empowering a Communist country. And many here cheer the merger of a capitalist and communist partnership.
I don’t think Ronald Reagan or any other conservative before him would approve of the one sided trade policies we have formed with an avowed enemy of our country. Yet the New Right conservatives cheer the traitorous corporations who take our jobs and wealth to a country where every citizen paycheck is cut through the communist government and the rate of 1.25 an hour is standard pay...and call these corporate whores innovative and “job creators”?
Be sure to go out there and protect communist China from the anger of Americans who see globalism and communism as a threat to their way of life. From what I see of OWS it’s not freebies these people are looking for. Most of them just want their country back. So do I.
Ding! +1 for resonance. But you also get a +1 in vagueness with the summary “Most of [the people in OWS] just want their country back. So do I.” “Taking the country back” is something everyone can unite behind, simply because it’s too vague to really make sense. Do you realize that there are plenty of OWSers out there who want to “take the country back” from eeeevil Republicans who want Draconian Cuts of social programs?
But then, you’re missing the point of the article: I’ll bet you not 1% of OWS protesters could even describe what a trade imbalance is, much less have a serious problem with the unholy alliance of the worst of Communism with the worst of Capitalism.
Because “Take the country back” sounds good to a milling mass of misinformed malcontents. And requires less comprehension. And less work.