The end is, if not here, certainly near.

Why is it so difficult for consumers to recognize we are at war?
No, I'm not speaking about the propaganda wars of rhetoric we've been supposedly fighting for years. You've heard of these constant battles; "The war on poverty", "The war on drugs", and who can forget "The war on terror".
These are just ill-conceived, Utopian schemes to get your tax dollars into the government's paws a bit faster(!)

I'm referring to the most underhandedly criminal and viciously oppressive regime
we've ever faced. I'm speaking about our benevolent trading partners, the Chinese Communists. If the word "underhanded" also springs to mind, read on.

Don't doubt for a second that their trading ambitions are anything short of bleeding us dry, in every possible way, financial and otherwise.
The Chinese, and their corrupt and polluted government, are making an indelible and irreversible impression on our economic, and even political, landscape.

Can there be any reason our Treasury Secretary Paulson is glad-handing and visiting and pretending all is well with these manipulative characters?
Paulson is not Commerce Secretary, so what's he doing involved in these matters?
He's attempting to stave off(delay) our pending economic demise!

Over the past decade we have over-financed and outsourced and bought ourselves in to an economic quagmire, and neither Paulson, nor anyone else will fix this disaster.
You can't believe the Chinese are reciprocally buying shiploads of plastic trash with the trillions of dollars we've sent to them.
Oh, no.... they're buying power plants and transportation infrastructure and production capacity and shipping and hotels and even interstate highways in our own backyards. How long can this keep up?
By the way, They're buying military might, too.

Maybe we should dispatch our Treasury Secretary to save our precious currency from collapse when the Chinese dump our trillions in debt they've accumulated (under the not-so watchful eyes of our own government).
Is this looking like an apocalyptic vision, yet?

The Chinese are able to produce vast quantities of cheap and junky consumer goods not only because of their labor economics, but also because they have nonesuch of the crippling environmental laws we face in the USA.
Nothing is "cheap", when the end result is the loss of our economy.

So how is it that the world's worst environmental violator is kindly labeled "most favored trading partner"? That's the end result of lobbying, and the selling-out of our own government and elected officials.
If you haven't lost hope in our electoral process yet, just keep those campaign contributions coming!

The greater problem is the bigger picture of macroeconomic regression.
Even if we were able to instantly stop or slowly wean ourselves from the tide of Chinese goods, we no longer have the skilled workforce capable of mass producing those products here.
No problem, right....as long as we're still the "fattest" country on Earth.

The Chinese people are industrious and ambitious and will do anything to maintain the upper hand in this battle.
This portends very poorly for a nation churning out public school graduates who can't read at a forth grade level (forget about math!)and are only marginally prepared to sling burgers and serve-up fries.
None of these apocalyptic visions is by accident or coincidence, but are the result of a long-term decline in our educational standards, overseen by incompetent elected officials and inept political appointees. We've elected flunkies, crooks and complicit yes-men. Where have all the leaders gone?

Don't kid yourself; these problems start where the buck stops, right at the top!
Keep up the good work..."Great job there, Brownie".

This is most definitely a war we are losing at a record pace.
Check the label, and Boycott China, Now.

We are near the point of no return.
Once the foreign government controls out currency, we are in a financial quandary from which there is no escape. Effectively, we are out of business.

There will exist no economic balance and we will be bled dry from the forces we, as a society, conspired to create through wanton(not the soup) greed.
Unlike prior wars, however, this one has no breaking point, no defining event.
This war is based on a steady, insidious decline in our society, and like water already over the falls, shows no sign of abating. DR