Communists Countries and different results

Imagine it's 1958 and the Cold War is in full swing.

Russia decides to build thousands of factories to make cheap versions of everything we need; socks, shoes, anything plastic, furniture, dog food and on and on and on.....by 1962 America is pouring billions of dollars into the Russia economy so that our consumers can buy cheaper goods.  That billions and billions of dollars that Russia has, now goes to building what?  Think hard!

WEAPONS

Russia was spending billions and billions on weapons and there was one problem......they didn't have any money and lo and behold by 1980 the country was virtually broke. They sure couldn't compete any more in the arms race and slowly they realized that the theory of Stalin's communism doesn't really work if the crowd is larger than a commune in southern Oregon.

UNLESS OF COURSE revenue can be raised in a different manner.

China observed the problem and decided that we could build their weapons for them by selling us everything we need.

A major difference in the two situations is that in 1958 there weren't giant warehouse stores in America to handle the influx of product....even if product was being produced.

I'm really not sure who is more to blame for the current situation.  China or Wal-Mart.  I do remember when Sam Walton insisted that everything sold at his stores was Made in the USA.  Not so much any more.

I've talked to people in the furniture industry who have their products manufactured in China and they simply say....."it's not really a communist country. The government leaves businesses alone so they can do business without interference from the communists leaders."

YEAH STUPID.......THAT'S THE F..KING PLAN.

SIMPLY GOOGLE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY CHINA SPEND ON THE MILITARY 25 YEARS AGO AND WHAT THEY SPENT IN 2011 AND WHAT THEY WILL SPEND IN 2012.

It's really not rocket science....oh but what a minute, it is rocket science that they are buying and building.

I fully realize that the United States spends 10 times what China spends on military but our job is to maintain planetary peace and to protect any democracy that needs help.   We also lend a hand in areas where they don't know how to spell democrcy and the cost of those aid situations is staggering...thus our large military expenditures.

When China gets involved in another country it's never to protect the ideals of freedom.

I'm not being naive by ignoring the oil drilling that takes place in or near many of the theaters that America engages itself in.....I'm just saying that we always attempt to leave our goal of freedom and democracy on the place mat when we leave.

Let's face it....We are the Wyatt Earp of planet Earth.

I don't know when we got elected to that post but it was somewhere around 1776.

China, on the other hand, is ????????...........we don't really know what there intentions are, but they seem to be a cross between the Claytons and sheriff Johnny Behan with a pinch of Doc Holiday thrown in just to confuse the matter.

I just think the same people doing business with China today.....would have found it reprehensible to have done business with Russia in the 50's, 60's and 70's.  I realize that we probably always bought Vodka from them, but we are a beer drinking society and  had they made $1.00 six packs of an amber ale.....then we might be talking Russian by now.

I like to look ahead ten years and just wonder how many people will be saying........

.....huh!  I had no idea China was planning to take over the world.

WE SHOULD HAVE CHINA AND ISLAM SQUARE OFF and get that shit settled once and for all.

Nobody ever said being Wyatt Earp would be easy, but I guarantee Wyatt was not buying his boots from the Clayton family so that they could use the money to buy guns and ammunition.

I'd like to hear the two Presidential candidates discuss this issue with Bill Moyers....but instead we'll get them on Leno, Letterman and Ellen talking about their high school reunions.

Hope you all had a great 4th of July!


Michael Timothy McAlevey