Why President Obama Went To China

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Why President Obama Went To China
(posted with permission from) http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/11/president-obama-goes-to-china.html

Mr. Obama's visit to China is one like no other U.S. President has ever made. It is of a huge out of control debtor trying to assure his biggest creditor of his financial sanity and pleading for more money.

It's like you having run up your debts to a frightful level and going to your banker to assure this person you can pay back those debts and that you are qualified to borrow more money and by the way, you need some of it immediately.

If posing for pictures, you would both smile at the cameras and say nice things about each other. But in private, you would plead your case and not discuss that person's politics or suggest he or she could lose some weight.

This is the position Mr. Obama is in. He might like to discuss China's civil rights but he can only go downhill in attacking its treatment of what they call "criminals" and they in turn could criticize the U.S.'s treatment of what it calls "terrorists."

Mr. Obama would hopefully want to discuss Darfur, in Sudan for China has a huge trading relationship and considerable influence with the Sudanese government. Two million people from Darfur have fled their homes, most of them to squalid refugee camps. The United Nations estimates 300,000 have died from violence or disease. All of this at the hands of the Sudanese government.

President Obama might want to discuss environmental issues and product safety issues.

But reality is the focus will be on the already mountainous and rapidly growing U.S. deficits, the printing of money out of thin air to cover some of those deficits and the sliding of the dollar's value, potentially into eventual collapse.

Staggering levels of spending on weapons, wars and bailouts simply can't continue. And from China's perspective, if we haven't secured Social Security, Medicare and other vital programs, that's our problem, not theirs. They fear we will go broke.

China wants similar reassurances to what you as a U.S. citizen would want, for the grossly irresponsible U.S. financial actions threaten us all. And as they protect their financial interests, we too must protect ours by pressuring what is supposedly our government into getting its financial house in order now while there is still time.

[Romulox]

1. None of this explains how it benefits *we, the American people* to keep borrowing

from China to funnel money into the international banking system, and perpetual war.

Sorry, I must unrec, as you post seems to be built around the aforementioned assumption. :hi:

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

3. Maybe this article, from the same author, from 2 weeks ago, might be more to your liking..

http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/10/fall-of-us-government.html

snip:
Of course as America's finances continue to crumble, politicians promise no new taxes and as incredible as it may seem for a nation that can't pay its bills without borrowing (or even printing) the money, some even discuss a "middle class tax cut."

They do that for the same reason we now for the first time in our history have a huge standing army of mercenaries rather than conduct a draft to fight the wars. Without higher taxes, which will be necessary to pay our bills and a draft, most Americans don't pay attention.

Most Americans are unaware that because of our government, we now owe about $40,000 per person or $200,000 for a family of five. Nor do they know that our government has no idea how it will ever pay it back.

Most Americans haven't even noticed we are now fighting endless wars. There are no exit strategies, just new potential enemies, terrorists everywhere. That helps to explain why America has 737 military bases outside the U.S., all over the world and a bloated military budget bigger than the economies of most other nations.

How can events have gone so badly? Because most Americans haven't paid attention and instead rely on the two party monopoly. It's easy to vote for a Democrat and if that person doesn't correct the problems (which is consistently the case), then vote for a Republican, and once again not solve the problems.

But how could they solve the problems when for the most part, they don't address them, for both parties are deeply corrupted. Lobbyists buy them easily. This means your vote doesn't count for as you've seen, it doesn't matter who is in office or what is promised, it's business as usual.

But this government doesn't belong to the lobbyists and their politicians nor to the Pentagon and their contractors, it is yours and mine. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
/snip

[daleanime]

2. Sad, but true...

our collective shame.:hurts:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. It's "The check is in the mail" brand of diplomacy.

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5. Staggering levels of spending on weapons, wars and bailouts simply can't continue. nt