Great Britain in the earl to mid 1800s, though that only worked because they were the ONLY industrial power for a few decades. As soon as they got competition from Germany and especially the United States, the tariff barriers went up.

The United States industrialized thanks in large part to high protective tariffs in the late 1800s.

“The Onion had a great take on what Carter might have said last year if he were a lot more profane than he really is…”

A great read — I think that Jimmy may have had thoughts like that, but had to pray to clear those evil “I told you so” thoughts from his mind.

He was truly ahead of his time, but there wasn’t anybody in Washington that would stick with him when the going got tough; i.e., his ideas smacked of (gasp!) socialism! That’s what you get from someone who focuses on the New Testament rather than the Old.

In that case Hummer should fit in very well with China’s overall environmental policies.

A person of the female persuasion who is amiss in the persuance of feminine hygene owing to lack of adequate sanitary padification.

Whatever happened to letting business’ making stupid ass mistakes and falling flat on their asses? Guess China never got the memo.

And we do an ever increasing amount of business with these people? Excellent!

Meddling politicians trying to get re-elected? Egad! Next thing you’ll say is the sun rises in the east.

But what’s with those hideous wheels?

Thanks for the Onion link re: Carter.

My wife and I had some good laughs over breakfast with that.

Half capitalism / half democracy? Here let me give you an example.

President Bush, in the fall of last year, went on TV to scare the shit out of Americans about what would happen if billions of dollars wasn’t given to Wall Street, pronto. Very similar to his Iraq speech.

After that Congress passed Bush’s TARP legislation, with which congress delegated unconstitutional levels of authority to the executive branch.

That part is the half democracy, at best, part.

Bush’s TARP legislation basically, in an unprecedented way, created a system of privatizes gains and socialized losses.

That is the half capitalism part.

Time will tell who is who… 2010 will be interesting.

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_got_what_america_needs_right

Plus, I have a question. If government meddling in industry is wrong, what do you call industry meddling in government?

Half democracy/half capitalism is Barney Frank meddling with GM’s bankruptcy to serve his need to be reelected.

Regarding the Carter analogy…

Obama’s plan for Detente with terrorists probably doesn’t end well, but hey, who am I to judge…

I think we need a conservative government to fix this mess.. but as it stands we only have republicans and democrats that work harder and harder to make sure we can’t tell them apart.

That’s a laughable statement as I thought “disregard for the environment” was not in China’s lexicon. Centalized control being disingenuous I guess.

Good reporting, thanks!

Huh?

The “Rich” buy Land/Range Rovers if they buy SUVs. I’ve always seen Hummers as a Toy for the Unintelligent.

–chuck