| There seems to be a storm brewing in Washington | | | | the crew managers out in the field. These are |
| DC over our trade issues with China, and until they | | | | extremely serious issues, and we don't need to be |
| are straightened out, it makes little or no sense for | | | | reminded what happens when pipelines go bad, as in |
| us to further stimulate our economy, because all that | | | | San Bruno last week. |
| money will just end up in China in three or four | | | | Indeed, I imagine at some point there will be a giant |
| transactions after circulating here. Thus, who would | | | | US consumer boycott of China, actually in China they |
| we really be stimulating us or them, and if that whole | | | | are already doing it to Japanese companies and some |
| "us versus them" issue bothers you, realize that this | | | | American companies with its own consumers due to |
| is the way they see us too. | | | | the media reports of labor practices at our factories |
| In fact, China has done things to further unbalance | | | | there, when in reality it is against the law to strike at |
| trade with the USA, and goes out of its way to | | | | a Chinese owned factory and they control the media |
| 'win-big' at our expense. International Trade should be | | | | if you do, so no one knows around the world. |
| a win-win, but when trading partners don't see it that | | | | Some people think that everything we buy comes |
| way, it becomes a win-lose, and right now; we are | | | | from China? Well, no not everything at Wal-Mart |
| losing. We can't afford to do that any longer, China is | | | | comes from China, the socks I am wearing came |
| no longer a poor third world country - their GDP | | | | from Pakistan for instance! ha ha ha. Much to the |
| makes them the number 2-3 economy in the World. | | | | angst of those out of work textile workers in |
| Now then, you've probably read in the news the | | | | Monterrey Mexico (of course all those workers have |
| latest hoopla over Chinese steel? The Chinese Steel | | | | now made their way here to the US to work now) |
| issue is real, and it's a real problem, and as much as I | | | | and all the old textile mills in South Carolina, well, that's |
| get upset with Unions and their dirty business in | | | | all history now. |
| Washington DC, they are correct in the case of | | | | But smile, because we do know that the Chinese are |
| Chinese subsidies for steel, and alternative energy | | | | building all their Red Army Chinese Navy ships out of |
| jobs, and they are soaking up a good bit of our | | | | Chinese steel, and that just makes me grin. Okay, so |
| stimulus money because of it. | | | | think on that whole issue for a moment and realize |
| Before I retired our company did a good amount of | | | | our trade policies are indeed linked to our military |
| business with Kinder Morgan pipeline company and I | | | | strategies, diplomacy strategies, energy policies and |
| remember having these conversations with some of | | | | so on. Please consider all this. |