Neanderpundit

No, wait- it’s Al Franken, not Al Quaeda. He’s running for senate, as M Alger reminds us.

Heard this on the radio, and forgot till I read it on BTB.
Fucktard. If he wins, his constituents deserve to get what they asked for, good and hard.

Like a one legged-one armed man in an asskicking paperhanging contest, going to night school to learn to be a longtailed cat in a roomful of rockingchairs, while having an extramarital affair with a three peckered goat. I feel fine! I love being busy.

M Alger has a good piece up about China and the chinese manufacturing complex.

What he says,in the main, is quite true. I am intimate with a half dozen companies doing business in China, as well as a few private individuals, and my company has been involved in several projects that took us to China’s mainland.

A product proudly emblazoned with “made in China” is, as often as not, made well, and dramatically less expensive than the comparable USA made product. No, I don’t need to be told to buy American, and i do whenever possible- but it’s impossible to go through life without a housefull of “made in china”.

Here’s the thing that makes me less concerned about the chinese than I used to be. When “Made in Japan” was an epithet, it was because japanese labor was filthy cheap, postwar japan was full of people willing to do anything to get by. And now, the japanese are among the highest paid workers in the world. We gave them W Edwards Deming, we gave them the tools to build an industrial complex, and they used those tools. Did they ever!

Now, China is emerging on the industrial marketplace, and they are doing so with a force that carries the weight of a huge population. And they are doing it with our help. THe unions and threat of unionization, the government interference in Minimum wage, are driving companies I know (Mr Blogojevitch, call your office) to go to China to get their products made. We look at chinese kids laboring in sweatshops, and think, how awful, how horrible, and we don’t know that if not for those sweatshops, those kids would be laboring in the fields, or a lot worse, for a lot less. Those sweatshops are the beginning of the way we will defeat the Chinese.

What I mean is this: those kids will grow up better than the ones who don’t have the extra food, money. THey will want their kids to do better as well. THey will have had a taste of a better life, and will develop an appetite for it. And the opportunities will be there. As will the notion that they deserve more, and are entitled to those opportunities.

They will develop unions. They already are, according to my colleagues who spend time there. THey will demand their share, and they will rise up and get it, by force of numbers. It may take another hundred years, and we have no idea what their impact on the world will be uintil then, but they already want to be us, and they have the impetus to become us. And the very flaws we have, that they admire, will be their downfall.

China is diseased because we have infected them, and the cure may be worse than the disease, but in the meantime it will bear watching.