Democrats DO NOT want to lose their majorities in Congress this November. But the economy sucks, so by the laws of physics, voters will not vote for the party in power. Does this mean Democrats should just give up and actually work on passing things they really believe in? NO. Does it mean they should slyly try to blame the economy on other things to distract the voters? YES YES YES. So what’s the deal with Red China, folks? Why have they ruined our entire economy forever?
Democrats are planning a legislative push on China this fall as they work to promote their support for U.S. manufacturers ahead of the midterm elections.
Legislation targeting China’s currency is at the forefront of the effort. Lawmakers in both parties argue China keeps its currency artificially low to keep the price of its exports down, which hurts U.S. manufacturers and workers.
Congress will try to “punish” Chinese exports. They will need some legal tools to do this, and so China will make some cheap plastic legal tools Congress can buy at Wal-Mart.
The Obama administration is not really into this whole idea, though. They actually have to do something called “foreign relations,” and they don’t really want to piss off China even though China is being dumb about this. So if it comes to MaoBama’s desk, he may not sign it, thereby increasing socialism and his love of it.
But Congressional Democrats probably couldn’t care less, because they just need the talking point. “Whaaaaaaat? Bad economy? Oh! Are you talking about how evil China is?” they will say to their constituents. “I hate that China laid you off. That is very unfortunate. And I am independent from Obama on this, because he hates your job just like his pal China.”
Meanwhile, Republicans aren’t quite sure what to say about this.
“Congress has an important role to play too, so I hope they will try to work out something rather than just say, ‘Stay out of our sandbox,’ ” Cornyn said.
No, no, we should try doing just that. That would be hilarious. [The Hill]
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Republicans who want us to hate and fear the messicans and muslins. The Democrats are getting smarter. They want us to hate and fear people who are not also known as “voters”.
“Let me show you how “net profit” really works.”
China’s time is coming. Those workers are starting to unionize. And even though they’ll be up against the People’s Army while our guys just had to face down Henry Ford’s fire hoses, they’ll get it together.
Confucius say: Girl should not marry basketball player: he dribbles before he shoots.
We should just build a fence to keep their exports out. Someone round up some Mexicans and let’s get this thing started.
[re=633620]Chernobyl Soup[/re]: I hope you’re right about those Chinese workers. The thing is, there’s a lot of them.
And the very best thing for American industry is for those Chinese workers to start getting paid a decent wage. Rise up, Workers of the World!
What do you call two Chinese playing basketball?
Yuan on Yuan.
(OK, I’ll stop now. Maybe.)
GOOOONNNGGGG!!
*deep bow*
That sandbox is just so loaded with cat piss, I don’t understand how anyone could be allowed to play in there.
[re=633633]Sharkey[/re]: Yao! Stop, your killing Ming!
The best part about your joke is that it works equally well (verbally) for Mexicans. And the fact that everyone knows that Mexicans are too lazy to even play basketball only increases the larfs.
[re=633627]Sharkey[/re]: Confucius was just pissed because his teammates always dribbled the ball after he passed it to them, thus lowering his assist numbers in the box score and making him a historically underrated point guard.
“Now give that back, that’s the nuclear basketball.”
the chinese are ahead of us in industrial production, manufacturing and exports but we still have much bigger penises.
Uh, call me a conspiracy theorist, but China owns – no joke – something like $755 billion of U.S. Government debt. To put that in perspective, that’s like, 3 times the size of Norway’s GDP. If China decided to sell those dollars – and they’ve showed signs of starting to do this – the dollar would tank and Americans would all be poors. Also, the U.S. wouldn’t have access to all the sweet imports we get for cheap at WalMart. The whole “The U.S. borrows money from the Chinese to pay for Chinese imports” system that has kept us fat (but with awesome televisions!) for so long would totally fall apart. So… we have to be nice to China.
Never mind the part about how America’s addiction to Chinese imports is propping up a hostile, anti-Democratic regime either. Americans are totally okay with that, it seems.
When did Obama have Alfalfa over to the crib to shoot some hoops? And who won?
And who’s that Chinese guy with them?
The communist atheists have all the good jobs. Alright, they’re mostly crappy jobs dipping toys in lead. But why is Chinese form of communism so successful? prison labor? ancestor worship? duty above selfishness? keeping the non-heterosexuals from getting married?
The Demon-crats should be careful about their rhetoric. People love cheap stuff from China, available in your local Wal-mart. Listen up Mao-Boy: You’ll get my flat screen tee vee when you pry the remote from my tired, lazy hand!
So the Democratic campaign strategy will boil down to Ron White’s stand up comedy routine?
[re=633657]Oblios Cap[/re]: He pronounces it “Arfarfa”
… just get my fuckin food order right.
[re=633656]Joanie[/re]: To put that in perspective, that’s like, 3 times the size of Norway’s GDP.
Because it’s easier to visualize a Scandinavian country’s GDP than a pile of cash the size of Devil’s Tower.
[re=633656]Joanie[/re]:
But if the Chicoms sell it all and the dollar tanks in the process, then the Chinese are left with a bunch of worthless paper at the end of the day.
A poison pill type of defense; evrybody loses. Too big to fail, indeed.
this cunning plan of not passing a new stimulus and job-creating legislation is sure to work and win many millions of new voters.
The Chinese are enablers. They keep buying up U.S. treasuries. Of course we’re going to keep our economy in the shitter!
“Tonight, on a very special episode of A&E’s Intervention…”
[re=633632]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: I think businesses are actually outsourcing their work that they outsource to China because the Chinese are starting to get paid too much and why pay that when you can just to Thailand and Malaysia for cheaper workers? Luckily for American workers, when our economy completely collapses during the first term of the Palin/Cantor administration, their wages will be low enough to get that work back.
[re=633658]just pixels[/re]: You’d think Republicans would actually like how China works things because other than that whole Communist bit, companies can force their employees into working 100 hour weeks for really low wages without anybody having the right to complain
[re=633702]dex[/re]: The Chinese can’t filibuster.
[re=633656]Joanie[/re]: And who exactly would buy that U.S. paper? The Saudis? Hugo Chavez? Only Kim Jong Il is dumb enough to go for junk like that, and even he hasn’t stolen enough to buy it. That paper’s goin’ nowhere until the Gubmint files for Chapter 7 or 13. Which is next Monday? We can say whatever we want about the Chinese, and they’ll just keep taking our interest.
[re=633691]Baldar T Flagass[/re]: No, because it’s more impressive to say it’s 3X something, than to say it’s a quarter of California’s GDP (if California had a GDP). Or 5% of the US GDP.
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