Guess
What? Jesus Ain't Gonna Save Us - Confucius Aren't Going
To Save Them
02 January 2011By Jane Stillwater
Richard M. Nixon is the only president in U.S. history
to lose a war retroactively!
America lost its war with Vietnam back in 1973 -- on
President Nixon's watch. But who would have thought
that, approximately 35 years later, Nixon again would
be losing us yet another war -- the war with China.
Back in 1973, America was still a major manufacturing
nation, we still had a huge tax base and when you
turned stuff over in the store before you bought it,
it still read "Made in America" on the back.
Now when you turn stuff over in the store, it is all
reads "Made in China".
America's public and private debt to China appears to
be un-estimatible -- due to secrecy, unavailability of
records, tax evasion, offshore banking hidey-holes,
bribes and kickbacks. However, you could probably get
a general idea of how much we owe China if you just
add enough zeroes to practically any number you chose.
I myself figure it this way: If America owes 8.68
trillion dollars in debt in total, then it's probably
safe to say that a whole bunch of that debt -- if you
subtract the part that has fluttered its way over to
Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine -- has somehow managed
to find its way over to China.
Nixon, when you opened up China's vast markets to the
West back in 1972, I presume that you were hoping to
exploit them to the advantage of American-based global
corporations. However, what actually happened was that
you somehow managed to fire the first shot in an
economic war with China that was far larger and more
serious than even the Vietnam war -- and possibly even
World War II. And, if you look at all the bloody
casualties in America's debit column today, it becomes
immediately clear that Nixon's economic war on China
has definitely been LOST.
Nixon in China. How ironic is that? The guy managed to
lose what may prove to be the biggest war America has
ever fought -- and to lose it 15 years after he died!
Good going there, Dick. I think you just set a record.
But if America was to attempt to turn this war around,
come from behind at the tail-end of the last quarter
and actually try to win it, we would have to pay off
all of our debts to China. And to do that, we would
have to stop importing goods from abroad and
manufacture almost everything here.
In addition, every man, woman and child in America
would, for approximately the next ten years, have to
save every spare penny and live at the same economic
level as a Cantonese peasant did during China's
Cultural Revolution. And yet how are these same
Cantonese peasants living today? They are driving
cars, eating at KFC and shopping the malls -- thanks
to Nixon.
But what, you might ask, do all of these economic
disasters have to do with Jesus? That's easy. I keep
getting e-mails from Teabaggers telling me that if we
all just turn to Jesus, all of our problems will be
over. Not.
But then I got to thinking -- perhaps those Teabaggers
might be right!
If every man, woman and child in America began living
like Jesus for the next ten years, then perhaps we
could win that war with China after all. If all of us
Americans all started to give up high-fashion and just
wear sheets for clothes, started living in mangers,
stables and Upper Rooms, started living on matzos and
hummus and olives and fish, using no electricity and
riding around on donkeys instead of SUVs, then, by
golly, I think we could actually do it! We could
actually win back all that ground that we lost after
China won Nixon's war.
But that ain't gonna happen.
China owns America now. And the Teabaggers' Jesus --
the one who demands that we offer absolute fealty to
WalMart and the Pentagon, the Party of No and a
security state -- ain't never gonna save us from that
fact.
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Here's an interesting comment on this essay from
Gerald Pierce (more food for thought):
Jane, you are largely right here, and some of the time
definitely wrong. And I can't prove my theories
either, but for what it is worth, my current thoughts:
Opening trade with China had at least two components:
First corporate America, which looked at a market of
several billion people -- and second, some kind of
hidden buy-off that kept the Chinese from kicking our
butts at a time when we were vulnerable (and still
dumb enough to believe our own "domino theory").
Opening up China was a bribe but even the people who
set it up did not have a clear idea of what they were
doing. And behind all of this we had Henry Kissinger
who was about half as smart as he thought he was. And
the Chinese know that the dollar bills they are
accepting are worthless. They don't care. Those
dollars have allowed them to establish economic
relationships with counties that own raw materials.
China's economic relationship with the West has
allowed them to get their hands on the technology that
they always lacked. Our corporate "masters" think that
by tying this technology to patents and other forms of
"intellectual property" they can continue to receive
income from stuff we are no longer capable of making
ourselves. But that will last until the Japanese and
Indians develop a new set of standards and sell the
blueprints to the Chinese. And then that patent
protection will last until the Chinese decide that it
is in their interest to engage in a twenty to fifty
year court battle.
Or they may simply buy up the "patent holders" using
our own worthless dollar bills.
We fragmented the manufacturing process among a dozen
or so Asian countries under the assumption that we
would still be the one country that knew how it all
fitted together. Then we turned around and outsourced
the science and engineering and set up a situation
where we are now the one country that doesn't know how
it all fits together.
The last information I have on China indicates that
the Cantonese peasants are still peasants. Despite
their economic impact, only about 10 percent of the
Chinese people get to ride around in SUVs. The rest of
them are trying to figure out how they are going to
survive their old age with only one child to support
them. The barefoot doctors are long gone, and much of
Chinese medical care consists of Chi-Gung and Falun-Gung
-- the same medical care they had two thousand years
ago.
And Jesus and Confucius aren't going to save them
either.
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