This “tea party downgrade” is a shameful blow to our nation’s honor and risks throwing us right back into recession. Worst of all? It was completely avoidable.

But when given the choice between extremist posturing and responsible leadership, tea party Republicans chose wrong. And now, amazingly, they’re blaming it all on Barack Obama.1

John Boehner and the rest of the Republicans hurt our economy and the whole country needs to know it

President Obama is right to press Beijing to behave more responsibly — toward its own people and internationally. China is certainly pushing its sense of grievance too far and underestimating the fear and resentment its growing power is provoking in Asia and the West.

There is little hope of progress — on the global economy, global warming or Iran’s nuclear ambitions — unless Washington and Beijing work harder to manage their differences.

President Obama’s decision last month to sell Taiwan $6.4 billion in helicopters, Patriot missiles and other defensive items elicited a particularly harsh reaction: Beijing has publicly threatened to punish American arms companies that sell to Taiwan, presumably by cutting off access to China’s huge market.

The sales could not have been a surprise to China’s leadership. Mr. Obama told President Hu Jintao of his intentions at their summit in November in Beijing. The arms were part of a package approved by former President George W. Bush, and Mr. Obama left out the most controversial items: F-16 jets and diesel submarines.

Rather than encouraging Taiwan’s independence, as Beijing claims, the arms sales will give Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, the confidence to continue his efforts to improve relations with the mainland. It is absurd for China to think that any Taiwanese leader would not want to bolster his country’s defenses when Beijing is modernizing its arsenal and stationing more than 1,000 missiles across the Taiwan Strait.

Beijing’s threat to punish American companies is a dangerous game, especially at a time when criticism is rampant — around the world and on Capitol Hill — about China’s unfair trade practices.    more …

Communist China’s latest bullying tactics are akin to economic war.  Sadly, the United States, my country, put itself in this position because of the lust for more and more low-priced gadgets and toys and larger and larger corporate profits.  All at the loss of hundreds or thousands of American jobs.

The US won a major war over 250 years ago.  The war against England for our independence.  England was then deploying similar tactics against the US.    Thousands of men did not shed their blood then so that now the US could cow-tow to the bullying of Communist China.  We won that war and we’ll win this one.

I understand that major companies may sacrifice great revenues if they are forbidden to sell and do business in Communist China.  In war, we all have to make sacrifices.   The overwhelming lust for revenue and profit should not come at the expense of America’s heritage and national honor.  I also understand the desire for cheap gadgets and electronic toys.  After all, if it weren’t for the low price, most of us wouldn’t own a new flat screen HDTV today.

But I urge my fellow Americans to buckle down and show Communist China that we will not simply bend over to their bullying tactics.  We must show them who truly is the super power in the world.

Before I continue I think a history lesson is in order. In 1911 the Emperor of China was overthrown by a democratic regime. After thousands of years of tyrannical rule by emperors, the people of China finally had a democratic republic. It was known as the “Republic of China” (ROC).

After some years, a group of rag tag communists, led by rebel Mao ZeDong, began to set the stage to overthrow the democratic ROC. To make a long story short, the USA was not in the mood to engage in any more military conflicts after WWII. So it did not intervene to aide the ROC fight off the Communist rebels (we did in Korea, however).

About 1947 the Communist rebels had strengthened in numbers and the tide of the civil war was in their favor. Many of the military and the government of the ROC retreated to an island then named Formosa. From then until 1971, the world recognized Formosa as the seat of government for the ROC and China. Indeed, the ROC was one of the founding members of the United Nations. However, in 1979 the UN voted to recognize The People’s Republic of China (Communist mainland China) as the UN representative of China. Not The ROC. This included the US severing formal diplomatic relations with the ROC in Formosa.

In return for this dirty deed, the US passed a law in Congress known as the Taiwan Relations Act. The act, basically, says that the US will provide Taiwan with weapons and other measures to help defend itself from the mainland, Communist, People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Why do they need to defend themselves from the PRC? Because Communist China has pledged to take Taiwan, against it’s will and by force if necessary. Interestingly enough, the US official policy is that they believe in a “One China”. Presumably, that means a reconciliation of Taiwan and Communist China.

Why on earth would any civilized government want a free and democratic nation to become a part of Communist China? Yet the USA, my government, continues to nudge Taiwan towards that end. Even though our government’s policy is that all people should enjoy a free and democratic government. Their policy certainly smells of hypocrisy. Check out this link which shows more hypocrisy on the part of our government…

China asserts they they own Taiwan. This is as far from the truth as one can get. Taiwan was legally ceded to Japan by the last Emperor of China. When the Japanese surrendered at the end of WWII, the US government appointed the ROC in Taiwan to host the signing of some of the surrender documents and to handle the surrendering Japanese soldiers who occupied Taiwan. Since Taiwan was actually legally owned by the Japanese, there was no disposition of Taiwan then or now. Under international law, the island of Taiwan is actually under the control of the US government. A fact that the US clearly doesn’t advertise nor enforce.

Communist China has over 900 missiles aimed at Taiwan. It has also made it clear that it will take Taiwan by force if necessary. The Taiwan Relations Act does state the following: hat section of the law concludes by saying that the United States will “maintain the capacity … to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security or the social or economic system of the people on Taiwan.” Let’s hope when the day comes that the US will keep that promise in the law.

In my opinion, the real reason that the US dropped recognition of the ROC in favor of the PRC was to satisfy US-based, multinational corporations who want to make a killing in China economically. This all happened shortly before Deng Xiaoping, Communist China’s No. 1 man, declared that capitalism was not bad. He met with then president Jimmy Carter in 1979. From that point to today, US multinational companies have closed their manufacturing plants in America with the loss of thousands of American jobs. They also began selling to China in a greed fest of unimaginable proportions. In my opinion, most multinational companies have no allegiance to their homeland. Only to the almighty buck.

So I leave you with the thought that the US government wants the Taiwan quagmire to just go away so they can continue to borrow Billions of dollars from Communist China. The multinational companies also want the problem to go away. So they just want 32 million free and independent Taiwanese quietly join the dictatorial, Communist mainland of China. If it were a Taiwan citizen, would you want that? I think not!

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1. “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.”  ~Thomas Jefferson

2.  Those who trade liberty for security have neither. ~John Adams

3.  Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is  a subject.

5.  Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.

6. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.

7.  You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.

8.  Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.

9.  You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.

11.  64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

12.  The  United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.

13.  The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.

14.  What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ do you NOT understand?

15.  Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.

16.  When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.

17.  The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.