The dinner


Categories: China, Obama
John de Rosier

5 Responses

  1. Albany Resident says:

    I don’t normally see eye to eye with you John but todays cartoon is right on the mark. This administration is spending my childrens childrens money and they don’t understand or better yet they just don’t care!

  2. mark says:

    And don’t forget everyone, not only does Pres. Obama have to bow low and kiss their feet, we all have to be nicer to those Chinese folks.

  3. Michael says:

    So true. And yes Mark, we’ve been kissing their feet for a long time. While it’s fashionable to bash the government for deficit building and its consequences and see it in the press every day, the massive trade deficit we regularly run gets little to no attention. Trade deficit – that is, we buy more foreign goods than they buy of ours. That whooshing sound is the accumulated wealth of this country gradually leaving our shores to go elsewhere. It’s the air being let out of the balloon. And it will continue. Why? Because we whine and complain about our government’s spending habits and then get into our foreign cars to drive to Walmart (should be called China mart) to buy foreign goods. And on the way we’ll stop to fill our SUVs with gasoline. And instead of being the technology leader of the world in things like alternative energy, we cede that role to other countries like China who are already cleaning our clock economically. From the outside looking in, they must think our country is populated by ignorant fools that care more about American Idol than technological expertise. Sure, let’s whine about socialism and government “takeover” of health care and be silent as we pour gazillions into our “defense” without a word. Are we really naive enough to believe our soldiers dying in Afganistan or Iraq are really defending us when the so-called enemy can set up base and train new terrorists in the Arabian peninsula, in Pakistan, in who-knows-where-istan? Yes, we are beholden to the Chinese. Yes, if they decide to stop buying our bonds, our currency will take a pounding, interest rates will rise, more of our savings will evaporate, and the Republicans will probably blame Obama for it. The correct response to this would be to ratchet up the standards of our education system (that’s the future and we’re falling behind), take the lead with cutting edge alternative energy development, build a modern energy and transportation infrastructure, etc. (other areas where we do next-to-nothing compared with other “advanced” industrial countries), have a foreign policy that actually makes sense and recognizes that the world has changed, have an economic policy that isn’t based on borrowing (and EVERYBODY is guilty of borrowing too much, not just the government), etc. Can we do that? Or will we just blame our government for the mess and not change our own habits and inconvenience ourselves?

  4. phillossifer says:

    amen, Michael, amen couldna writ it better m’self. Keep up realism, although it’s questionable those on dole will believe you.

  5. Phil says:

    Another occasion of how inept this President and his staff are. They let a Chinese Pianist play a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie “Battle on Shangganling Mountain.”


    Obama probably grinned like a loon all the way through it and thought Oh, what a catchy melody.