Yes, Chinaman understands all this. And he couldn't care less.
You see, despite all his phony American flag-waving, the only thing that's important to Chinaman is getting reelected to the presidency, and for that he needs money, money and more money. Only corporations have that kind of money. So Chinaman gets corporations' money by doing exactly what they want him to do.
And what corporations want is to move their factories to China to get those 20-cents-per-hour wages.
So Chinaman doesn't do anything that might stand in the corporations' way. He doesn't even think about protecting your job. (Heck, it's his job he's worried about keeping, not yours. Holding on to his job is all he thinks about all day long.)
Anyway, Chinaman does just what corporations want him to do, so they reward him with millions and millions of "campaign contributions." (That's French for legalized corporate bribes.)
______________ What he's really doing, of course, is making China the world's new superpower. He's helping American corporations tear down every American factory and factory job, and move them to China. In the process he's also creating some monumental trade deficits.
But he doesn't care about that. As we said, what's important to him is getting elected to another term in the White House. And he's not going to lose a second's sleep over a few million American factory workers thrown out in the street.
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What a ridiculous hypocrite Chinaman is!
You see, he's supposed to be this really big fan of Free Enterprise, this huge Hero of Capitalism. So why would he allow American corporations to put all of their factories inside the walls of a Communist dictatorship? Inside the walls of a dictatorship every bit as brutal as the Soviet Union at its peak! Inside the walls of a Commie dictatorship that can nationalize all our factories at any time it wants to, for whatever reason it chooses!
Does it really make sense for the world's leading Capitalist state to put all its factories inside the walls of the world's leading Communist state? Does it make sense -- even if the Communist state is pragmatic enough to use free enterprise as a temporary tool to compete with Capitalist states?
Exactly who or what has the strength to stop China if it decides to nationalize all our factories?
Certainly not Chinaman. Not anyone, for that matter.
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But let's forget the Capitalist/Communist thing for a second and talk about something even more important: Chinaman is destroying America's industrial base by allowing corporations to transfer their factories to China and other Pacific Rim countries.
But isn't Bush supposed to be this great Patriot? He certainly talks the talk, doesn't he? Don't you love it when he goes down to some NASCAR race and talks with those good 'ol Southern boys with that backwoods drawl of his -- just like one of them, a guy who really shares their values.
As if a self-obsessed multi-millionaire super-preppie is going to share the values of a bunch of patriotic factory workers!
As if a multi-millionaire graduate of Andover AND Yale AND Harvard is going to have patriotic country-boy values!
The reality is that he thinks they're just a bunch of rubes -- dumb hillbillies who will swallow anything if he just talks the talk with that laid-back Southern accent.
How he must laugh at the hillbillies when he gets back to the ranch! The idiots actually buy his "patriot" act!
A patriot? What kind of patriot helps foreign nations destroy America's manufacturing base, destroy our factories and factory jobs? What kind of patriot helps China become the world's leading manufacturing nation, thereby replacing America at the top of the ladder?
What kind of patriot? A Chinese patriot, maybe.
He's great for China. But when it comes to America he's more of a traitor than a patriot.
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