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Originally posted by Astrocloud
I read something about this the other day. I personally believe that there is something to "blaming China". However, we do this while ignoring our nations own shortcomings. For example; there could have been a US bail-out for many fine industries... but then -we would have an even bigger deficit problem. (Even though we still have money for an expensive Iraqi war).
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You made me think of an interesting parallel between the wal-mart thread and this one. Some people seem to hate wal-mart and wish they would go away, even though the general public is quite happy to shop there. A lot of people also seem to hate china and wish that we would do less business with them, but I see no effort on a local or national level to actually do anything substantial.
I think a lot of people don't realize just how dependent we have become on china. I bet you couldn't do your average weekly shopping and avoid buying something made or partially made in China or Taiwan. There are whole industries that just don't exist in the USA anymore.
And has the policy of appeasing the Chinese in hopes that free trade will free the people, started with Clinton and continued with Bush, actually worked? Not as far as I can tell.
Personally, I think what the USA should have done is to develop Mexico as a better partner. NAFTA helped, but our on-again, off-again alliance with mexico has never really delivered anything other than a few factories at the border.
Mexico isn't perfect, but it's far better from a human/civil rights perspective than china.