The Chinese are already suffering the curse of the Asian Tiger. Remember in the '80s when you (I was too young) were all crapping yourselves about the Japanese? They were going to come over and buy everything and nothing was going to be made here. Then they got a middle class and their kids got as dumb as our kids and everything settled down. China has an emerging middle class, everybody wants a car and 2.5 kids and an ulcer and wants to be paid a middle class wage. Apple has already said the iPhone 6 will be made in the USA, they'd already figured it would only take a $30 increase in price.
Even though the trade laws have relaxed nobody is going to be shipping chicken to China for processing, China is our largest importer of chicken feet. We relaxed the trade restrictions so they wouldn't stiffen theirs. Everybody in China is terrified of their food supply and won't feed anything made in China to their kids. China is ripe for revolution, the party is slowly losing its grip. The USA is still a big manufacturing country, probably #2 in the world (although theres a lot of "it depends" in there) with most of the stuff being built here being high end as opposed to low end user crap. I've been buying "Made in America" more and more lately. What are you doing other than crabbing? -Curt Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:08:23 -0700 From: clay <redgh...@comcast.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Factoid Message-ID: <782e1892-b577-487e-af64-638411d87...@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii They have lived under the reaction to the reaction to the initial offenses of the late 50's. We would have unseated the Saudis had they not been fairly malleable and willing to play as long as we did not mess with them. The Israelis are akin to the persians. They survived the events of Hitler, and have become a very reactionary and dangerous society. The bulk of the population has no personal knowledge of what their grandparents went through, and have built up a mythos based on the stories they are told, not what they have done themselves. Iran has the mythos of our meddling, the rise of the shah, and the reaction that caused the ayatollah to show up. Thirty years on, they have their parents to tell them stories of how it was under the shah, or listen to grandma. In the meanwhile, they are just as greedy for western things as the chinese. It took them 25 years after Nixon to become a viable threat to our economy. In the past 18 years, they have destroyed our industrial base, flooded our markets with garbage and bought up all our debt. We have become enslaved to the chinese. Will it take forty or sixty years before we rise up? clay _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
