On 3/5/2015 5:39 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:56:58 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:29:35 -0500, Wayne.B
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On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:01:37 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 07:20:49 -0500, Wayne.B
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On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:01:08 -0500, wrote:

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



I remember going to school nights in 1978-79 and one of my professors
spoke about this. He said that once the genie was out of the
bottle in China (PRC) and the population became more aware of the
concepts of capitalism, China would forever change due to internal
pressures. Later, in 1986, I visited China, arranged by a host in New
York. The purpose of the trip was to explore possible joint ventures
as part of China's initial, exploratory program to team with western
companies and to acquire certain technologies. Our plane was met at the
airport in Shanghai by armed Chinese military or cops wearing hats with
the red star on it. The rest of the men still wore Mao Tse-tung type
jackets for the most part.

Things have certainly changed since then.