142 years of US economic dominance to come to an end as China becomes world's number one economy (McCain, Walmart)

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC

We've been in a war with China? I had not recognized that!

All joking aside, I am not a proponent of war. I am a proponent of a strong national defense. There's a difference. I think you know what.

In theory, sure there's a difference.

But in practice (in this country), there is no difference.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC

Of course I was against it. I can't think of anything China has ever offered the world that I approve of. Now we have hardly any choice but to fill our homes with Chinese junk. I would have much preferred Chinese crap stay far away. Bill Clinton saw it differently.

Why was your party so strongly for it then.

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC

Of course I was against it. I can't think of anything China has ever offered the world that I approve of. Now we have hardly any choice but to fill our homes with Chinese junk. I would have much preferred Chinese crap stay far away. Bill Clinton saw it differently.

Real junk......we pull water pumps up all the time with big chucks gone of of the soft steel....the plastic cracks and is no better.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Driller1

Real junk......we pull water pumps up all the time with big chucks gone of of the soft steel....the plastic cracks and is no better.

Why do your professional colleagues buy and install cheap Chinese made junk?

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Why do your professional colleagues buy and install cheap Chinese made junk?

They are not made in the USA.

We tell our suppliers all the time to send us American made if they can.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Driller1

They are not made in the USA.

We tell our suppliers all the time to send us American made if they can.

No American companies make pumps?

[Chicago South Sider]

Originally Posted by dba07

I would say its days were numbered once they gave rich bankers and tycoons the key to the castle (e.g. The federal reserve). They've transferred a once prosperous republic into a corporate oligarchy. America didn't decline, it was dismantled from the inside. Both parties are complicit since they are owned by the same people. With the supreme court refusing to hear the challenge of the NDAA, your rights are officially meaningless too. What a shame.

This is pretty much spot on.

[cjski]

Originally Posted by Spaten_Drinker

The majority of their population are poor peasants incapabale of anything beyond manual labor. The manual labor that "Americans won't do for $1.50 a day".

FIFY

(bolding mine)

[daylux]

We've been in power long enough, it's time to let a communist country take over from here.

[Ultor]

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