Are the liberal's brain's outsourced to China?
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Liberals-----Brains??   now there is an oxymoron
652756
The Right would say "Yes" the Left "No". Let's take a look. Trading with china was so one sided we are just now trying to fix it. So many top-secret material was stolen by Chinese green card holder working for Top military contractors during CLintons term. During Clinton/Gore re-election they took money from the Chinese to run for office. Remember Gore and the Monks?
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USA and its outsourcing, particularly to China and India.
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Good point.  The jobs being outsourced overseas are better jobs than those left here, too.\n\n[ADDED] Lancelot (below) needs to do some research, as well as take his Econ 101 again.  He and the rest of the Bushie/right-wing ilk just LOVE simplistic explanations without substance.  Let's take Lancelot to school for a few moments....\n\nCorp tax rates in the US are among the lowest in the industrialized world - effective rate is 14% (that's net of tax break incentives, allowances, and subsidies provided by the government), which is lower than Lancelot's individual marginal rate.  Further, US corps, and many corps worldwide, WANT to do business inside the U.S. - we have the best intellectual property and copyright laws in the world as well as the greatest transparency in accounting standards (Enron notwithstanding and in fact making the point).  It's our TAXES that support the courts, SEC, Treasury, and other institutions that make our business climate so favorable to corporations.\n\nContrast this with the corruption and bribery that corporations have to put up with in many emerging overseas economies.  It's no wonder that the U.S. is THE country in which to launch a new business.\n\nTax rates have absolutely, positively nothing to do with the flight of jobs overseas.  Not that it isn't happening, and not that EVERYTHING is perfect about our economy.  Jobs really are going, and we have to face important issues about this.  But there are other factors - and not corporate tax rates - which are at play here.
995237
did you know china pays most of the u.s. debt? so technically.. they own us. think about it.
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I can say that I am mad about the outsourcing of jobs and the dependence on foreign items, but I cannot answer the question based on facts. My opinion is that we're being outsourced because its cheaper to produce things outside the US. Our dependence for foreign items comes with the outsourcing of jobs and perhaps that we can't preoduce itmes for ourselves fast enough that we look for outside items. I would like the politicians who benefit or support outsourcing to be ousted from Congress.
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Never, people really need to do their research on China, instead of letting the media whip them up into a frenzy. Here are some facts,China's GDP, from their so-called vaunted economy ,is a little over 3 trillion dollars per year, our GDP  is over 12 Trillion dollars per year.We are one-third of the world's economy! We spend 40% of the world's military budget at 504 Billion dollars ayear.70% of the world's military budget if you throw in our Allies. China spends 39 Billion dollars a year on their military, they won't spend 125 Billion dollars on their military until 2025! They just put a man in space, we've been doing it for 40 years. Of the two major triads of war, surface Naval craft and submarines, the Chinese basically have none of the latter, and few of the former. There is a lot of bottled up internal dissension in China, much of it over the one-child policy,and the government taking people's homes and lands to build on.They basically have no tactical nuclear weapons, and ,yes, we'd go nuclear on China. By tactical nuclear weapons I mean cruise missiles and drone and submarine launched and the like.Believe me , if China didn't already know this they would have gone after Taiwan years ago!
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China is pretty smart... I think we can all agree they have an artifically devalued currecy, which gives them a nice advantage in the world market, but hey it's not like the U.S. doesn't have some nice advatages too. I worry a lot about human rights issues there and I wish they could maybe set a little better example for Southeast Asia. But as for it's role in the international community, it's a billion people, huge workforce for potentially cheap labor and huge market for imported goods. The needs are pushing up the prices for goods internationally though, like oil, but hey that's consumerism.
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No shitt, it's just the big wigs trying to compete with china's cheap labor at the expense of our country's values.\nI'm sick of it. I think any company doing this should be shut down and the owners prosecuted
430859
Great!!\nGood criticism.\nI think that China has such powerful econimic policies that even the US firms have opened their offices in China.\nThey have such a cheap manpower that every company would like to work in China and probably this is the reason that even the US stickers are made in China.
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A. they are FAR from Democratic, but they are turning toward capitalism... THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE THAT APPARENTLY SOME DON'T UNDERSTAND... but perhaps it's a step in the right direction...\n\nB. This was one major issue that pissed me off under Clinton and one that Bush has followed Clinton on... the one issue that he follows Clinton on IS CHINA... MAYBE THE WORST ISSUE OF HIS PRESIDENCY... he can't even take Clinton's good parts, but he takes his bad ones... GEEZ... \n\nJust because Clinton screwed up is not a reason that Bush can... \n\nif anything Bush is worse because he's off fighting "dictators" in Iraq while he's supporting the Chinese dictators... at least Clinton wasn't such a hypocrite with it... but that's just my opinion
494367
China will never assume the role of Big Brother. It is something that the US has push onto the international scene. That kind of attitude or approach is against traditional Confucianism. China will work with other major powers to influence other countries, it will never take the direct approach the US does.
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No.  China also believed they owned Tibet.  The communists failed to capture Taiwan, tough luck.
422648
It wasn't.  Clinton inherited a clean slate from his predecessor.  The next time go to WalMart and see everthing there made in China, thank BJ Clinton. He made the godless Chinese "most favored trading partners".  He sent your jobs to Mexico(NAFTA), he anmestied 93,000 illegal Mexicans (letting them keep the US jobs they'd already stolen), encouraging the present flood of criminal entrants.
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China's leaders read history I suspect. The reason the US beat Japan in WWII and why China was laid open to Japan in WW II is the same. The Japanese had a huge technological and manufacturing edge on China. So despite Chinese troops heavily outnumbering Japanese troops the Japanese rolled over the devided Chinese. \n\nThe US beat the Japanese primarily on our manufacturing edge. Wasn't until late in the war that we gained a technological edge, mostly because Japanese industry was too bombed out to bring new inovations into the battlefield. \n\nNow we fast forward to today. \n\nUS - Industry is almost non-existant. \nChina - Makes half the world's products including military gear for many Western nations. China makes crucial chips for US military vehicles and weaponary. \n\nUS - Until recently the technology leader of the world. US companies have shut down or outsourced technological research. \nChina - This is where some US and other Western companies have outsourced thier R&D departments. China would be able to quickly and easily occupy the two nations the US also relies on for technological parts and research (Japan and Taiwan). So should a war break out the US would suddenly be unable to inovate. The facilities would just not be there any more. The US would not be able to repair weapons and gear. The factories just do not exist in this hemisphere any more. Few technological companies actually manufacture anything in the US. They might assemble them. A good example was when a Taiwanese resin factory burned down in the early 90s. Buying memory chips was like playing the lottery. I literally bought some and sold them for twice what I paid for them a week later. Without Taiwan our computer industry grinds to a sudden halt. \n\nWhat has happened is that through bribery and other means China has effectively disarmed the US and many other Western nations. \n\nNow lets look at current military. This assumes that the US could actually build necessary factories to keep these units going. \n\nChina has the latest technology and is quickly becoming an inovator in military technology. China is actively preparing for war with the US and the West. China will find ready allies whom they have already discussed a war with the US with. This includes Arab Terrorists and leftist South American and African governments. \n\nThe US has made no effort to gear up for war with China. The US refuses to even admit it's a possibility. \n\nIn terms of Air force. \n\nChina - Makes and flies the latest Russian migs. \nUS - Still has an edge in quality but a slim one. Our aircraft are considerably more expensive and difficult to repair and replace. As such a war of attrition would go in China's favor. Even if the US could actually make a single airplane without overseas exports, it would find it difficult to keep up with the numbers the Chinese could put up. \n\nNavy\nChina - Up until recently did not posses a navy of importance. They are fast correcting this. Some of the new Chinese subs are on par with Western subs. Worse the Chinese literally bought US top secrect technology over the last 15 years. So they have the best both we and the Russians have plus thier own inovations. \nUS - The US still has a major edge in both quality and quanity of surface vessels. \n\nGround forces. \nChina - China has switched from human waves to a very modern military organization with good capabilities. Chinese solders are capable troops and well trained. Chinese armor is behind the US in quanity and quality but far cheaper and more reliable. China has a huge reserve of manpower which could be employed. Enough to give them a major numerical superiority. \nUS - The US is over reliant on gizmos and gadgets. While US troops are highly trained and have probably the most advanced gear in the world, they are vulnerable in many ways. US armor lacks the reliability to fight an extended war against a foe that is on par with us. The US military is designed to fig
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The government? - Don't you realise the deficit in the balance of payments are things mainly bought by the American people and companies.  How much have you spent on on Chinese produce?  You sure - Do you know how many components in electric goods from Japan, Korea and the US are actually made or put together in China.  Well get used to it,  People will always look for value for money - Even patriotic Americans.
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Are you talking about China?  What exactly are you talking about?