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ALl the while we, Americans, focus on... prices at the mall and infantile preoccupation with sex.

When a married ---- excuse me for being so outdated --- living together couple of young adults wants to buy a house, they want a house of their parent, not the house from which their parents has started. An average house built today is 40% bigger than that at in 1950 --- and yet our papers are full of complaints that "fewer people can afford housing."

Our literacy declines but we want the same salary. And then we complain when the corporations prefer the Chinese labor to ours.

[Concentrate]

IMHO, trade with China should be outlawed, as it is with Cuba. I have never bought the idea that trade, much less giving them "Most Favored Nation" status would transform China into a free country.

All it does is make them powerful totalitarian states instead of weak ones.