The Price We Pay...

Freedom V Totalitarianism

By purchasing goods from China and allowing the United States Business community to manufacture in China and export from there back to the US we are, in a very literal sense, investing in the success of Totalitarianism and in the failure of American democracy.

Every manufacturing job that we lose to China results in an American worker losing 20-50k per year in wages as they move to low paying service industry jobs (most often). The maximum that we save by purchasing low cost goods from China is a 2-3k per year. What a horrible deal. And all of the money spent on manufacturing these imported 'goods' is sent to and spent in China, instead of being spent in the US.

And look at the 'goods' we get. They are often toxic. China has practically no human rights and environmental regulations. Their totalitarian leaders treat their people like dogs. Why should we expect them to treat us any better?

The GATT deal passed by a Republican congress and signed by a selfish Democrat (Bill Clinton) represent the most traitorous act in American history. And now China is so powerful and yet so dependent upon income from selling to us, that if we try to turn back the clock they will most likely consider it an act of war. For without the income they receive from selling us everything we buy, China would become poor and their billion people would be largely jobless and threaten revolution.

The price we pay for this devil's deal signed by Clinton and the Republican Revolutionaries may well be WWIII and the loss of Japan as a free democracy and Hawaii as a state in our nation.