Hello Haim, First you enthusiastically put yourself in the Fascist camp with wanting to nuke the Chinese folks’ recent achievement in the peaceful endeavor of honestly working for a living, and then you willingly align yourself with the Communist superstition by insisting on redistribution of wealth through global implementation of minimum wage Message 19326254 <<September 21st, 2003>>, and now, you appear to taint yourself with xenophobic provincialism augmented with strong flavor of economic illogic, wishing to buy American-made sofas at dearer cost but with no material quality advantage, and wanting to buy Romanian computer virus sampling CDs at even greater possible destruction ;0)
Why?
<<Jay give me one reasonable reason why should I buy products from China if I can chose same or similar products at similar prices from the US ?>>
… I cannot give you a single reason in the case you have parameterized, nor do I need to :0)
As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, within your lifetime, you will see Chinese manufactured Volks Wagons and Han people made Hondas in a dealership near you.
I have no trouble sampling Romanian wine, wash with French bath gel, nibble on German cheese, toy with Japanese entertainment system, watch American movies, take Italian holidays, or invest in Russian stocks. Why? I suppose some can accuse me of being pragmatic, cosmopolitan, international, progressive, and thinking.
<<Further why should I support those who engaged in the "Cultural Revolution" under Mao and now same individuals embraced "free trade" ?>>
… Utter Shribbage. What is shribbage?! Exactly that, as if I had mumbled something about ‘why should I buy Swiss-made platinum equation of time machine and support those who benefited from the evil and self-serving neutrality during the global struggle against Fascism and global darkness’; or if I had mouthed off on ‘why should I …(fill in the blank) and now those same individuals descendants chant freedom this and liberty that’ ;0)
<<Why should I support with my money a regime which is not democratic and still uses forced labor in their prisons?>>
… Get it straight, there are many republics, but very few democracies, and there are election mechanisms where the moneyed wins, and the unconnected loses. Get it right, on a per capita basis, your neighborhood has the highest density of prison populations, and on a value measure, your license plate industry and yikes, your federal government furniture supply is heavily dependent on re-education through labour programs ;0)
<<I can understand that you are very pro China>>
… I am actually pro-underdog.
<<… and nationalistic>>
… I love Trinidad and Tobago, my country, for all of its shortcomings.
<<… but so what ?>>
… I have no idea. You brought the subjects up.
<<I better give my money to an US worker than to some one that supported the communists and now runs a factory in China>>
… go ahead, who is trying to stop you?
My issue is simply with folks who try to dictate to others what they must do, and by trying to raise tariff barriers, you remove freedom to choose by dictation.
<<In any case if I would be forced to chose to buy non American I would prefer to buy from my native Romania than from any other country in SE Asia ...... why because I have nothing in common with SE Asia>>
… I am trying to figure out what you are trying to say, because I cannot fathom what I may have in common with the guy who made my Chilean wine. This way of thinking is so foreign to me.
What are you trying to say with such obliqueness ?
In any case, no one is trying to force you to choose anything. It is only your own bias that is making you imagine that anyone is trying to make you choose even as you are apparently prepared to stop others from choosing based on anachronistic beliefs and tried but failed ideas.
BTW, you purchase and holding of Euro is increasing Chinese competitiveness in Euro-space, and materially driving the sort of deals that Euroland companies announced to create the world’s largest TV factory in China and the intended export of Chinese cars of German origin to willing buyers still able to exercise freedom of choice living in various and sundry republics equipped with different regime-changing mechanisms.
By your illogic, you must sell your Euros and buy USD.
Chugs, Jay |
