China becomes driving force

BEIJING: On display at next week's Beijing auto show: global automakers' hopes that booming China will drive sales this year as demand elsewhere slumps.

[Upper People Dont Care]

China cars are junk...Stay American, and buy American..

[BuckeyeBorn]

What's the price of gas in China ?

[Howard Beale Jr]

Wonderful China.

How soon we forget Tiananmen Square 1989.

[tired of it]

Why are we financing China's boom? Who paid more for everything when this country went through the industrial revolution? Nobody. We made everything here. What reason would our own government have to sell this country out? Why do we continue to elect people to office in this country who have made their campaign on lies to America? Just some thoughts. Why not tell China to pay more for their oil. Why should we pay $4.00 plus for a gallon of gas because China is booming. F China.
Tell them to finance their soaring economy with their own $$$. I'm sick of hearing excuses for everything anymore.

[Howard Beale Jr]

Propaganda. And the American media serves as the willing messenger. While you enjoy the Olympics, think for a moment of the family farms their government drained dry to serve Beijing and the Olympic villages.

[Nate]

Oh, dear. Some of you should read a few books and do some research.

First of all, no one forces a Chinese person to work in a factory. He or she chooses to because it's better than the alternative. With a good 20 to 30 year industrial revolution, the children of the original factory laborers are forgoing factory life for college.(Sound familiar?) Amazingly, even in a country with more than 1 billion people, these factories, mostly concentrated in the southeastern portion of the country, are running into labor shortages. This, in combination with people now working elsewhere or going to college, is driving up the cost of labor in these factories. As they demand more money, the remaining workers are also demanding better conditions.

Secondly, globalization is good. Wonder what part of the reason our standard of living has increased so much in the past 50 years? The outsourcing of jobs to cheaper countries. But wait, you say, we've lost millions of jobs to these places! True, but these lost jobs have been replaced by millions more. We don't see it in Ohio and other Rust Belt states, but that has much to do with taxes, unions and corruption/ineffective government. See every country, like every person, is good at some things and not so great at others. Bananas are grown in South and Central America, not Akron. Those regions have a better climate and know-how to do this. Steel is cheap and efficiently made in China. Americans are great innovators. Look no further than Silicon Valley in California.

Yes, the Chinese government has a lot of work to do, especially on humanitarian fronts (hello, Tibet!) But to blame our Ohio/Akron woes on a country is misplaced and foolish. What kind of arrogant people would we be if we told the Chinese--who have financed a great deal of our public debt--that they can't live like us? We are an increasingly interconnected world. We need to solve all of these problems (peak oil, food shortages, etc) together.

[Oh jeez Edith]

Money. Quarters all over the chinese. Hard working for the ice cream. Making slave monkeys dance for lamps. Time magazine. Buy one get one free. 50% off. The enema handbook. They eat my socks.

Loren, are you trying to say something???

[tired of it]

Nate wrote:

Oh, dear. Some of you should read a few books and do some research.
First of all, no one forces a Chinese person to work in a factory. He or she chooses to because it's better than the alternative. With a good 20 to 30 year industrial revolution, the children of the original factory laborers are forgoing factory life for college.(Sound familiar?) Amazingly, even in a country with more than 1 billion people, these factories, mostly concentrated in the southeastern portion of the country, are running into labor shortages. This, in combination with people now working elsewhere or going to college, is driving up the cost of labor in these factories. As they demand more money, the remaining workers are also demanding better conditions.
Secondly, globalization is good. Wonder what part of the reason our standard of living has increased so much in the past 50 years? The outsourcing of jobs to cheaper countries. But wait, you say, we've lost millions of jobs to these places! True, but these lost jobs have been replaced by millions more. We don't see it in Ohio and other Rust Belt states, but that has much to do with taxes, unions and corruption/ineffective government. See every country, like every person, is good at some things and not so great at others. Bananas are grown in South and Central America, not Akron. Those regions have a better climate and know-how to do this. Steel is cheap and efficiently made in China. Americans are great innovators. Look no further than Silicon Valley in California.
Yes, the Chinese government has a lot of work to do, especially on humanitarian fronts (hello, Tibet!) But to blame our Ohio/Akron woes on a country is misplaced and foolish. What kind of arrogant people would we be if we told the Chinese--who have financed a great deal of our public debt--that they can't live like us? We are an increasingly interconnected world. We need to solve all of these problems (peak oil, food shortages, etc) together.

So Chinese workers choose to work for penneys a day because it's better than the alternative? So, your saying the morale will imoprove when the beatings stop? Other than financing our debt, what has China done for anybody? And i don't mean keeping the FDA in business. We are suffering so china can boom. That is what we are being told. We pay $4.00 a gal. because china needs so much oil. Am I the only one who doesnt' care about china? Another question for you, How many times in your life have you been to the pristine wilderness of alaska? neither has anybody else. Lets drill our own oil, refine it and sell it here. Best wishes to China.

[Jetset]

Nate wrote:

Oh, dear. Some of you should read a few books and do some research.

I did.

Each person in the U.S. sends $800 to China every year, never to be seen again. IOW, that's 250 billion from our economy going to China that we'll never see again.

Then China converts that cash into a secret, underground submarine bases to better position their nuclear weapons against us.(And/Or loans it back to our government).

However, the trade gap is closing slightly, thanks to the falling dollar. Maybe when the dollar is next to worthless, we'll be on an even playing field. There's always a bright side ;-)

[Jonn Q Public]

Howard Beale Jr wrote:

Propaganda. And the American media serves as the willing messenger. While you enjoy the Olympics, think for a moment of the family farms their government drained dry to serve Beijing and the Olympic villages.

You know, I couldn't care less about the Olympics this year. I'm gonna boycott them suckers myself and not watch at all. China owns the majority of the US debt and have this country over a barrel (pun intended). I'm sick and tired of paying four bucks a gallon for gas because china is booming.

[concerned citizen]

Howard Beale Jr wrote:

Propaganda. And the American media serves as the willing messenger. While you enjoy the Olympics, think for a moment of the family farms their government drained dry to serve Beijing and the Olympic villages.

like the family farms we drained dry to build suburbia? you know, the ones where people live and now cant afford the gas?