11-14-2011, 11:09 AM
Yes -- it is not an anti-China thing, but they fight their corner very well, and it is high time others -- the Western democracies -did the same, and the more local, the better. One has no right to bemoan the closing of some shop, if in fact, we did not really used it.
I often visit a port -Felixstowe- where the Chinese container ships unload. They carry 10,000 containers each -- and then, I look arround the shops, and see so much made there. Much is pure trash, no-body needs it. Yet it has been carted round the globe, and it will sell. How many garden-trowels must there be, thrown away, because the trowel bit came loose, or bent, as soon as someone tried to use it?
How nutty to political leaders have to be, not to notice that all the money which Europe and America etc owe, has piled up in trillions in China, and the Middle East ? How could there not have been a big crisis? No amount of 'financial engineering' will resolve that.
The idea that one can make a gift of a service, for want of home-made manufacture, is excellent. I shall follow this --- perhaps the 99%ers will too!
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I often visit a port -Felixstowe- where the Chinese container ships unload. They carry 10,000 containers each -- and then, I look arround the shops, and see so much made there. Much is pure trash, no-body needs it. Yet it has been carted round the globe, and it will sell. How many garden-trowels must there be, thrown away, because the trowel bit came loose, or bent, as soon as someone tried to use it?
How nutty to political leaders have to be, not to notice that all the money which Europe and America etc owe, has piled up in trillions in China, and the Middle East ? How could there not have been a big crisis? No amount of 'financial engineering' will resolve that.
The idea that one can make a gift of a service, for want of home-made manufacture, is excellent. I shall follow this --- perhaps the 99%ers will too!
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