China Has Stephen Colbert Shaking In His Trousers
On last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert addressed the reasons why we should fear China. He coined the word “frenemy” to describe them seeing as how they are both a friend and enemy to our interests. They make cheap tube socks but compete for the fossil fuels we are willing to kill for.
The Chinese keep making more and more of our junk. Wal-Mart might as well just wave the Chinese flag in their stores. When your there, good luck finding something that a Chinese person hasn’t touched.
One thing the US is beating China in is number of prisoners. Despite China being four times the size of the US and is viewed as an oppressive nation, the US has more prisoners than they do. In fact, at more than 2 million currently serving, we lead the world. Go us!
China is right on our ass for polluting the Earth as well, being second in CO2 emissions.
Because China is taking our jobs, competing for the black gold and the fact that our government owes their banks money, Colbert is troubled. Perhaps China can make a “whoops I crapped myself” doll for little American kids looking at the future job market.
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2 opinions for China Has Stephen Colbert Shaking In His Trousers
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Jun 5, 2007 at 10:39 pm
[…] On the other hand, Wal-mart is a mega-successful cash machine and, before his death, created the then wealthiest man in the world. Target’s cash-flow ain’t nothing to sniff at either. As I like to comment from my stratum of privilege, in a world where the rich get richer and smaller in population, and the poor get poorer and larger in population, selling to poor folks ain’t a bad business model. Everyone wants $2 tube socks. […]
Alex
Jun 6, 2007 at 2:00 am
Very good point. Unfortunately, big oil is getting in the way of Big Wal-Mart here. With record high gas prices, some people are struggling to have extra income to spend more at Wal-Mart and thus their sales have gone down.
So this is a case of big business screwing over big business. But yes there are lots of poor people so catering to them is a good business.
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