To: tony who wrote (39722 ) 5/24/2001 12:56:44 PM From: Crystal ball Respond to The Choice: Communist China or Democratic India and Mexico, I say choose our Friends and Neighbors, not Armageddon crazed communists. Outsourcing and balances of Trade are driven by geographical economic advantage, but we are artificially creating it in Communist China, and capitalism and communism do not mix, nor do they co-evolve, Russia for example has a long way to go to get out from under the destroyed infrastructure of communism, since the Kernsky short lived parlimentary government transition period from the Czars to the Bolsheviks was not long enough to create a capitalist and DEMOCRATIC society, so Russia has economic problems, that can be solved, but have not been solved these past 12 years.....China would take at least 3 times as long, thats right, at least 30 to 40 years. In the meantime, China will destroy our economies and political systems and even our moral systems. All for imaginary short term investment commissions. The US is being SOLD SHORT. I say we need to solidify and strengthen our treaties and trading relationships with Europe, Latin America and MExico, and India and the non-communist Asian Basin and Pacific Rim, like the Phillipines, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and of course Australia and New Zealand and New Guinea even, way before and ABOVE Communist China. I agree customer support and and call centers, and I would submit computer and high mathematic science techonology is bein outsourced to India (thank God its them) because they speak English. Meanwhile the US will move towards being a bi-lingual nation, spanish is the first or second language right now of 40% of the people in the US legal and illegally. The German GAST ARBEITER Guest Worker Visa system would solve that immigration problem and help our neighbor instead of our communist chinese enemies. I will be so bold as to say that the liberals and southern controlled US senate, especially under the Clinton Administration were bigotted and prejudiced based on color and the funny thing about that kind of racism is that they would rather trade with what they viewed as whiter (yellow) communist chinese than the darker browner mexicans because they have racists and other irrational fears, and I say this as a person who would be viewed as being quite white and northern European by family origin, but I get sick of paying for the bias and prejudice and guilt of those backward Little Rock inbred southerners still living a scant few moments outside of the ante-bellum Slavery infested Confederacy. I think the US has to re-examine its conscious and realize that politics and economics is what matters, and get over racism and accept and treat people equally, espeically those who are our friends and neighbors and DEMOCRATIC allies. Even more so the Arabs and Saudis and Persians (Iranians), and Jews (Israel). Otherwise we are our own worse enemies and the Communist Chinese will probably not even bother to historically record our demise. Rome fell from within, how Great are we?
