waiting for the people over there to revolt, its way overdue.

step 1) incite chinese revolotion
step 2) Chinese people are either all killed off OR start to earn reasonable wages
step 3) companies bring jobs BACK overseas to the US of A
step 4) economy fixed

crab66: BEER_ME_in_CT: waiting for the people over there to revolt, its way overdue.

step 1) incite chinese revolotion
step 2) Chinese people are either all killed off OR start to earn reasonable wages
step 3) companies bring jobs BACK overseas to the US of A
step 4) economy fixed

The only flaw with that plan is that somewhere else would just become the new China.

step 5) repeat as necessary.

ignatiusst: crab66: BEER_ME_in_CT: waiting for the people over there to revolt, its way overdue.

step 1) incite chinese revolotion
step 2) Chinese people are either all killed off OR start to earn reasonable wages
step 3) companies bring jobs BACK overseas to the US of A
step 4) economy fixed

The only flaw with that plan is that somewhere else would just become the new China.

step 5) repeat as necessary.

it's not going to happen. China is undergoing their industrial revolution right now. a cultural revolution will likely occur, but they're not going to throw out their government. instead, their government is going to continue on its path towards free market capitalism. they will retain a very strong federal government that will legislate on lots of issues. But china will open up on its own course.

I mean, they're in the WTO. other countries are just going to sue them for discriminatory practices and other stuff.

it would be interesting to know what schedules for trade in services china as opened up, and whether you could argue that television programming might be a service. I really don't think that tv could be a service in the international trade sense, but that would be a really funny way to enforce a freedom of speech globally. Screw constitutions, make change through trade regulations. money speaks louder than ideas any ways.

/ sorry, I've got the WTO on the brain. I wrote a long paper on preferential trade agreements and the future of the WTO a couple of months ago, and I've never stopped thinking about it. I happen to believe the world trade organization (and the imf and world bank) could be vehicles for good. well, it already has done a lot of good, but it's been reckless, leaving a lot of losers in its wake. If it were more careful, I think it could really make the world a better place, without as many devastating consequences (like Jamaica's dairy industry for example... they should have sued the crap out of america... but that's another story, and further evidence that big agriculture may be the most evil industry on earth).