shocking product from China

Jeez, he's 4'10". Don't make it tougher than it is on the little guy. If Obama wins, he'll be baaaack.... I doubt if he'd have a functional role, however. He'd probably be a member of the Council of Economic Advisors, or something like that.

BTW, he wrote a book titled _I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society_. He does have a sense of humor about his height.

No matter which one is elected, I expect that my mood will improve along with that of the rest of the country. I don't blame Bush for the financial meltdown and I don't think either Obama or McCain can do anything to speed a recovery; they'll both support re-regulating the industry, and their economic programs, at least as they're proposing them, will take a long time to have any effect. Any recession that's on the way now is coming anyway.

-- Ed Huntress

No Rhodes Scholar he,

That may well be the wisest thing you've said, Ed, and you've said one hell of a lot of wise things.

Harold

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:06:39 -0400, the infamous "Ed Huntress" scrolled the following:

He'd almost have to, wot? ;)

You're probably right in all the above.

-- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Clinton had to be forced into welfare reform...3 times actually before his handlers told him he had to sign. Balanced budge? ROFLMAO...not even according to the CBO

Excuse me, I misspoke; should have read "*permanent* status". Prior to Slick Willie, China's MFN status had to be renewed periodically (annually, IIRC) to remain in effect.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:40:23 -0700, the infamous Gunner scrolled the following:

I wouldn't doubt it. I only followed his reign with contempt from afar, as I have Shrub's. And I still can't believe that you people (over half the voters each time) voted either one in for a freakin' _second_ term. I just don't believe it, sixteen years later.

Try to tell your Shrub, the man who single-handedly doubled the National Debt, about balanced anything...

-- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

His "handlers" had nothing to do with it. He struck a deal with Newt. What Clinton had to do was to get the Dems in Congress to support it, which he did.

Why do you suppose he did that? He had plenty of Dem support in Congress to block it, if that's what he wanted to do. If he had vetoed it, it would have died in childbirth.

I have a book here that I'm thinking of titling _What I Know About Economics_, by Gunner. It's one of those blank-page diary books.

-- Ed Huntress

Well, thank you, Harold.

-- Ed Huntress

What precisely, is wrong with having good trade relations with the nation that is going to be the world's largest economy in a few years time?

Mark Rand RTFM

Sure, to woo the Chinese further away from the Soviet orbit. And very successful he was too. A bold strategic move.

Which pissed off American businessmen no end because they couldn't tell if their suppliers and investments in factories would be competitive from one year to the next, and the annual process was always being held hostage by special interests (such as US unions under the guise of promoting 'human rights'). Clinton fixed it, as his corporate bosses wanted, and nobody afterward is likely to want to change things. ;-) Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Some of us have a problem with doing business with a country that:

- has ICBMs with nuclear warheads, targeted on American cities

- imprisons people for practicing the religion of their choice

- rigidly controls its population growth by forced abortion and infanticide

- sells products which are produced by prison (i.e. slave) labor

- pollutes the environment on a scale never before seen anywhere in the world

- forces workers to labor in absymally unsafe working conditions for negligible pay

- doesn't allow its subjects to live where they choose

Maybe these things don't bother you. IMO they should.

Pot? Kettle?

Mark Rand RTFM

Give me a break. There is no proper or wanted need to have this there. There isn't supposed to be there. It is a mirror. Silvery color to look into.

The resin-based polymer is a surface treatment to give a red color that was once Cinnabar. Now paint.

Martin

Mart> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:17:02 -0500, the infamous "Martin H. Eastburn"

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Care to tell us about other presidents who have doubled the National Debt?

Hint..they are all war presidents

What is that supposed to mean?

From long ago:

Little Willy from his mirror licked the mercury right off, thinking in his childish error it would cure the whooping cough. At the funeral Willy's mother smartly said to Mrs Brown, ''Twas a chilly day for Willy when the mercury went down!'

ERS

Mark Rand RTFM

I understand perfectly well what the phrase means. I was asking what meaning you thought it had *in this context* -- since I do not engage in any of the conduct of which I was complaining.

Ok:-

Where are all the US ICBMs targeted? The Moon?

Camp X-ray comes pretty damn close to that.

A result of breaking the one child per family law. They _need_ to contain population. Pity more countries don't do the same.

Does the term "chain gang" have any meaning to you?

China passed the US for CO2 in 2006. Given that It has more than four times the population, it's got a long way to go to meet the US's levels per capita.

Workers come from the countryside to the cities for work due to the relatively high pay. Just because they aren't making $20/hour doesn't mean that they are low paid in their economy. Working conditions are comparable to those experienced in the west in the 60's and 70's. before we got infected by lawyers.

Has the US given the aboriginal American's land back yet?

In other words. Almost all of your complaints about China can be duplicated in the US's current or recent record.

As I said:- Pot? Kettle?

Face it. In a very short time, China will be the world's largest economy. It's been providing a large part of the Western consumer boom for the last two decades and has the same relation to the US that the US had with Britain in the 19th century. That's the way things happen.

Mark Rand RTFM