tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19150297.post4230918678056875242..comments2023-07-04T10:30:14.276-04:00Comments on Intrepid Liberal Journal: Bush's China LegacyRobert Ellmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03526287813354418269noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19150297.post-49109201446021657792008-11-30T03:37:00.000-05:002008-11-30T03:37:00.000-05:00I think that we need to work with our western Euro...I think that we need to work with our western European allies to overcome this great economic imbalance with China. I know it could get very ugly but we need to get out of this mess for the sake of our own national security. After all, it is China's Mao Tse-tung who said, "Economic power begets political power. Political power begets economic power." China is slowly but surely cutting the great big US of A into pieces.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19150297.post-33430563582402679012008-11-27T16:23:00.000-05:002008-11-27T16:23:00.000-05:00Hey Rob!I've been all wrapped up in my other blog ...Hey Rob!<BR/><BR/>I've been all wrapped up in my other blog - Poemshape. Now that the world is "relatively" safe from Republicans, Conservatives, and Neo-Conservatives, I've been burrowing back into the world poetry.<BR/><BR/>China seems to be getting itself into more and more trouble. While Sinophiles have been singing the praises of the Chinese for 20 years, predicting they will take over the world, they have been single-mindedly ignoring the extensive destruction of their land and resources as a result of nonexistent environmental laws. (I have been butting heads with them for 20 years.) Once one factors in the costs of their extensive environmental degradation, their GDP is actually negative. Their "cash", their "wealth", is an illusion. This is all bad news for us, especially because policy makers (seemingly conservative) remain stupidly indifferent, if not ideologically hostile, to the systematic costs of environmental degradation caused by rampant and unchecked industrial growth. <BR/><BR/><BR/>I think we might see the country split up within our lifetime. And that's not reassuring. The US Government needs to be extremely worried about a paranoid and desperate government that could single handedly destroy the dollar, downgrade the United States Government, and demolish our economy. We would survive, but only because we would take down the rest of the world with us, including the Chinese.<BR/><BR/>Fareed Zakaria is wrong when he states that the Chinese have two options. They don't. Some estimates demonstrate that fully two thirds of their arable acreage is too polluted to use - it's dead. Zakaria, and those whom he reads, are simply wrong if they think that over a billion people could survive, let alone flourish, selling products to themselves when they are rapidly losing the ability to so much as feed themselves, to drink their own water, or breath their own air.<BR/><BR/>But none of this is good news for us - it is in that respect that Zakaria is right. We need to readily and expeditiously wean ourselves from our Chinese debt dependency. We are, presently, at their mercy.upinVermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541656511322678901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19150297.post-64405212924150538092008-11-25T12:38:00.000-05:002008-11-25T12:38:00.000-05:00Forgive...never forget.Forgive...never forget.Mark Prime (tpm/Confession Zero)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04683863540465969835noreply@blogger.com