Reply #8: No I hear you, the US is no angel by any stretch but as a practical matter... [View All]

I'm fairly sure that Mattel didn't specify lead based paint for their toys, but, you know...maybe they did. I think there's an over-arching theme here that speaks to marauding, irresponsible capitalism and lord knows there are a few such irresponsible 'private sectors' here in the states of that there can be no doubt

In view of the latest Google/China episode regarding China seeking to throttle net access in & out of China; I find it interesting as to why China would reach beyond their own wall to impugn upon the reputation of one of, at least for the time being: larger economies of the world: America. Perhaps more importantly I understand why...

China can no more absorb hit after hit upon the integrity of their ability to produce safe, consumable products in a global consumer driven econ - maybe even less so in that when the US absorbs such hits, or as Toyota experienced also more recently - some factories are shut down, people are sent into unemployment by the millions due to some CEO's short-sighted view of profits and consumer protections

When China views the possibility of absorbing such hits, I do think China's oligarchs understand most completely that 100's of millions of people could lose their jobs and make for lots of unhappy people and impacting their strides toward modernization. China doesn't want that and other than Wall Street I don't know who would. So maybe it plays a little like a very serious, adult version of that childhood game: hot potato, where whether it is yours or not someone tossed it, we caught it but its too hot to handle, so it gets tossed somewhere else anywhere else. There are other analogies/allegories, but so far as I'm concerned the matter is talked out

I also think it to be true; that the days of Juggernaut America just chugging away through favorable trade winds, like there is no tomorrow: are over

Though as I mentioned at the top - China didn't have to go much further than www.wsws.org and the so-inclined cadres of DU to find voice to the established, aggregated ills of the US