[Grovenet] What makes a city livable? Was: ACTION ALERT: Call for Measure 37 Suspension & Hearings

[David Morelli]

On Dec 13, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> Thanks Steven.
>
> While we in the USA feared the communist states' military  
> ambitions, they always said that they'd beat us economically.
>
> Were they right?

Some wag once said that Capitalism would sell Communists the rope to  
hang us.  Except that they are beating us in the capitalist arena as  
world grade capitalists.
>
> The economies of the world are heavily intertwined. However, one  
> has to ask which would be the worst disaster, the Chinese losing  
> the US as a "customer" or the US losing the Chinese as a supplier.  
> We Americans are only one of China's customers, and our importance  
> grows smaller as the EU and South America buy more and more from  
> China. However, China is our ONLY major supplier of a huge range of  
> goods we are highly dependent upon.
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire

Saying that we are dependent upon China is like saying that we are  
dependent upon Columbia.  It is true, but it is not desirable.

David