We’re gonna see a LOT of this before the election is over….
Mitt Romney NEVER goes at much of ANYTHING one way….
He tends to ‘dance’ when dealing with issues…
Back in the Bain days he passed companies and their assets on to the Chinese for his company his OWN personal gain….
Now that he’s running for President….
He wants to blame the Chienese for stealing jobs……
Come on!….
Like Rev Al would say….
Do you think we would forget….and let you get away with this?
The Obama re-election campaign turned the tables on Mitt Romney releasing a new adattacking him on China, until now a favorite issue for Republicans.
The AP notes the 30-second spot opens with a clip of Romney during a 2011 Republican primary debate. He says “the Chinese are smiling all the way to the bank taking our jobs and taking a lot of our future. And I am not willing to let that happen.”
A narrator responds that Romney “made a fortune letting it happen.”
Politicalwire…
….here’s the ad…..
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I was about to tip you on this – I saw it on pwire two seconds ago!
And thought: ouch.
This is effective, it’s true, it’s relevant, and very bad for romney’s jobs and economy message…
Good minds think ALIKE!
People need to stop messing with the Chinese which have a duality….
On one hand they OWN a chuck of America and provide capital here…
On the OTHER hand their military is dead after our asses in technology….
Oh, and on top of that they export a boat load of people here ever year as immigrants and will eventually surpass the Mexicans
Yes indeed….
And going after Obama on this very point… with the things he’s done at Bain… it’s almost like a flailing manager.. starting to be incoherent and thoughtless…… losing the grip….
Yup!
I wouldn’t worry too much about this particular Yellow Peri (immigration); my guess (before doing something simple like checking the data) is that as many come from South Asia as from China.
China’s technological challenge to the U.S. is simple copying, piracy or industrial espionage; they’re developing a huge cyber-attack capacity (which the U.S. is apparently matching), and like Japan and the Asian Tigers in earlier decades, China’s own basis for original research and development.
A generation or two ago, no one thought that Detroit would often have to race to catch up with Japan’s technological advances.
True DSD
But Japan is a ally
As was pointed out
China has TWO faces
While cooperate with its manufacturing and capital markets
We compete with that same country for resources
In addition
The Chinese military seems to trying to put in place
The capability to FORCEFULLY extend political and military power and influence
The US military is now moving assets around the Asia rim to counter china’s military
These moves have been embraced by Asian countries concerned about
China’s reach for more
And YES
The American policy makers are CONCERNED
This will cut into the Middle East peace
Divident
Yeh
Like there was EVER going to be some
“peace dividend”
There will ALWAYS be another
“enemy”
Somewhere for the Military/industrial complex to “fight”
And of course spend BILLIONS on
And unfortunately millions of stooges of the same to cheer on this gross waste of money
Fact is Chinese military spending is PEANUTS compared to the US
Yo jack
The America military LIKES that ratio!
I don’t really care too much what the US military
“likes”
In my view tthe military/industrial complex is one of the main culpritsof our continuing budget woes
To say we must”reform” Medicare and social security while these goomers run all over the world WASTING trillions of dollars
“defending” us against any so called “enemy” they can cook up is in a word
SICKENING
Why Marxism is on the rise again
¶ Capitalism is in crisis across the globe – but what on earth is the alternative? Well, what about the musings of a certain 19th-century German philosopher? Yes, Karl Marx is going mainstream – and goodness knows where it will end
Stuart Jeffries
The Guardian (Manchester & London)
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Class conflict once seemed so straightforward. Marx and Engels wrote in the second best-selling book of all time, The Communist Manifesto : “What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.” (The best-selling book of all time, incidentally, is the Bible – it only feels like it’s 50 Shades of Grey.)
Today, 164 years after Marx and Engels wrote about grave-diggers, the truth is almost the exact opposite. The proletariat, far from burying capitalism, are keeping it on life support. Overworked, underpaid workers ostensibly liberated by the largest socialist revolution in history (China’s) are driven to the brink of suicide to keep those in the west playing with their iPads. Chinese money bankrolls an otherwise bankrupt America.
The irony is scarcely wasted on leading Marxist thinkers. “The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives de-localised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation,” says Jacques Rancière, the French marxist thinker and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. “Happily, it is possible to hope for a world less absurd and more just than today’s.”
That hope, perhaps, explains another improbable truth of our economically catastrophic times – the revival in interest in Marx and Marxist thought….
continued at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/04/the-return-of-marxism
(sorry about the unclosed italics in the post above, which you can now delete.)
Marxism may some day rival Capitalism, but the evidence that the Marxist author provided that Marxism is on the increase is very weak. Marxism was much stronger 30 years ago than it is today
I see China as a capitalist country that is led by communists…..
Same goes for America, James.
the amazing thing of SE’s statement is that he probably believes what he just wrote. our horrible schools in some parts of the country haven’t even taught kids what communism is.
SE engages, like Daniel and his hero Timmy, in bumpersticker politics. Write communist or socialist and you have, in their opinion, won the discussion. Oh, I forgot, throw in a couple of freedoms too.
Fact is, our current Administration is led by someone who more closely resembles a moderate Republican than anything else.
True that on Obama…. Keith….
Democratic President’s, in this day and age have no choice but to follow in that path….