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To: unclewest who wrote (465467)	1/17/2012 7:22:21 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793969

China hasn't hurt the wealthy. It's middle class jobs that are disappearing. * * *

To: unclewest who wrote (465467)	1/17/2012 12:21:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793969

What'? You mean vote for Ron Paul who would do that? You can't do that. You have to vote for one of the Big Government people like Romney or Gingrich. < How are we easily going to replace China? This is the easy way - 1. Throw away our ridiculous "hands around the throat" business laws and regulations. 2. Rebuild the American manufacturing system. 3. Replace Chinese workers with the 40 million Americans on food stamps, unemployment, and welfare. > But hope for change of the president isn't enough. You'll have to make some changes in Congress too. Obama's attitude showed up with his sidekick's "we have our boot on the neck of BP" or perhaps not exactly those words though it was definitely a boot on the neck. Not to mention "redistribute the wealth" as though "the wealth" is something automatic and some people accidentally got a lot of it. Even thinking to use that boot on neck expression shows a very ugly fundamental thinking. While it might be true that some people in BP did not comply with some of the no doubt absurdly myriad regulations and some might have deliberately committed a crime such as selling steel in the black market instead of including it in reinforced concrete [which is not what happened but by way of example] to adopt a "boot on the neck" expression shows a very nasty streak. BP employees and other company employees have no power against government. All that was required was to call in the company and require them to make good the harm and punish them for any criminal activity. As with the confrontation between the policeman and Obama's professor friend, Obama's instinct was to shoot from the lip and blame the white guy. Oooops, turns out the policeman was perfectly reasonable and it was is angry buddy who was the problem. As for "redistribute the wealth" he and other governments have achieved that by constantly making it more difficult to hire people in the USA. The wealth has been redistributed to China where people are willing or forced to work for a living. Since it isn't a democracy, we can say they are forced. They can't opt for a public handout of redistributed wealth, unless they are part of the government. You might think that you have come up with an "easy way" but 40 million who are on the public teat won't think that's as easy as a handout. And that 40 million doesn't include the hordes who officially work for government one way or another but who achieve little and paid absurd amounts. As in Greece, you will see squawking and maybe armed riots if you try to cut the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed. They think they own the producers. Mqurice