On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:56:58 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:29:35 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:01:37 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 07:20:49 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:01:08 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:48:13 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 3/4/15 3:38 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:29:09 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 12:01:28 PM UTC-5, Tim wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/18/politi...ports-dispute/

Yes my business is effected too. Hard to fix stuff if you can't get critical parts

I'm waiting on a part for my patio heater that's stranded in this strike. Sounds like I may have it for next winter.

I guess we are lucky that most of our chink stuff comes through Miami
or Tampa


"Chink" stuff? Sheesh.

Contraction for Chinese Communist .. Isn't that accurate?

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Chink is a bit of an ethnic slur.

If I am just slurring Chinese Communists, come and get me PC cops. ;-)

In real life I was just poking Harry to see if he was awake

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I'm not sure the Chinese are still communists, certainly not in the
traditions of Marx, Lenin and Mao. It's not really clear to me what
you'd call them other than a totalitarian state.

It appears that China has retained all of the bad parts of old time
communism (oppression and an overbearing government) and still opened
up somewhat freer markets kicking people off the gravy train.

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In the end free enterprise, competition and private ownership of
resources will lead to change. It already has in fact. The
governmental authorities are well aware that there are strong
undercurrents of unrest and hostility towards the present system and
they're doing everything they can to maintain the status quo. The
pressure from the people will continue however.