USA: The “New Opium” Addicts
May 15, 2009
The problem is quite simple: anarchy and chaos prevails in Washington DC because the federal government has seized powers to which it is not entitled to and is passing masses of laws that are 100% unconstitutional and when you get men setting themselves up as greater than it, you get anarchy and eventually tyranny.
Now, this might seem paranoid, but the real meaning of paranoia has been twisted and changed through the years. It is actually a man or person who has the ability to link events that seamingly are not connected. This is the true meaning of paranoia. Indeed, the word is being used by enemies such as so called progressives to smear truth seekers. When you connect the dots, you arrive at the truth.
The American people are somewhat like the Irish. The story is the Irishman got shipwrecked and after many days finds himself on an island and people show up waving spears. He asks “Is there a government here?” he answers “well I am against it.” Liberty is based on individual freedom; we are individuals and are not the masse as referred to by Marx and the socialist writers. Indeed, the Americans objected to a tax on tea imposed upon them by King George.
The US colonists said they were never going to pay it and today they are being driven on their knees by a tyranical government imposing all sorts of taxes. Worse than that, they are trampling on the US constitution which is the second greatest document in the world next to the bible. If the Americans could rebel against King George, then it is time that the peopel rebel against the federal government trampling on the constition every day of the week.
Kign George of the Venetian party sent Adam Smith, a servant of the East India company, to establish Free trade. By the means of this, Adam Smith, the popular economist of Karl Marx, was able to bring the small manufacturers to their knees. Indeed, free trade is piracy and there is no such thing. It began with the east india company who played a massive role in the US of America. The problem is that you are not taught this in your schools and Universities.
How did they get so powerful and how did they manipulate the US? They made their massive amounts of money by selling opium and first grew poppies in Kensington, London, and sent them to India to start a massive plantation. They sent the opium to China and by their military force imposed a policy that turned the Chinese into addicts and enforced this policy known to the Royal Family. They made a massive huge fortune.
If we took 1970 as the year for profits on the big 3 autos, and in one year, the opium trade with China was three times the profits of combined profits of the big 3 in 1970. These profits were shared among the East India Copany and were sworn to secrecy. The descendants of this company today run the USA. They also interferred with the development of the US by arming Indians and ran mission stations in China and got the missionaries — who were not really missionaries — to push opium on the Chinese.
Now with the Vietnam War that passed, they (the descendants of the East India company) made the US the opium addicts with cheap imports from China and losing manufacturing to them (including Asia); the livelihood of the North American economy. Now, the US is suffering its second Greatest Depression that will make the first one look like a cakewalk with all the credit cards and debt instruments that didn’t exist back then.
In the 1700s, Congress was advised by President Washington that it was necessary to impose tariffs to protect industries of their colonies. This was the firsts trade barrier. Let us dispose once for all with words such as “isolationist” and “being against global trade.” The US did not grow great on these things. It grew great on the hard labor of the people who lived in those days and the wise protection barriers imposed by George Washington erected to protect the US from the Britishs’ damned so called free trade.
It allows other countries like China to dump their products on the US market to the detriment of thee US. 
It is strictly a one-way street as evidenced by the rules, barriers, and mercantilist policies enacted by the Chinese to protect their own industries from “harmful” US imports. Indeed, our old presidents saw value of trade barriers and realized that if the US were to progress, it would not be a dumping ground for the world.
China is not engaged in the kind of overt protectionism of “Buy American” program recently, but it has enough barriers to free trade and investment in order to leave open to such accusations on the road. Beijing has removed all the stops in recent weeks (April, 2009), to pilloring the United States to the local content of its obligation to fiscal stimulation with the comments in the media call for protectionist “poison” and a parade of officials from the engagement of China pledging to free and open trade.
What Does The Bible Say About China?
Jesus used the expression “the east and west” to represent all pagans. Isaiah used the term “in the north and west, and the land of Sinim” in the same direction. “These from the land of Sinim” should naturally be a large group of people among the Gentiles. Only China, not the small town of Aswan, so could fit the verse.
“And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 8: 11).
The most exciting phrases of the prophecy concerning “Sinim” certainly continue to be met. Reading earlier verses in this 49th chapter of Isaiah, we find these words:
“That You [Jesus Christ] may say to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’ To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves. . . .’ For He who has mercy on them will lead them, Even by the springs of water He will guide them. . . . Surely these shall come from afar; Look! Those from the north and the west, And these from the land of Sinim.” (Isaiah 49: 9, 10, 12).
Isaiah’s announcement of a final gathering of the faithful of God, among those “in darkness” must indicate a multitude of people, even in China. Most people living in China since the days of Isaiah, were “in darkness” concerning the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. Yet here is a prophecy and a promise to bring “prisoners of darkness” in the country in light Sinim of salvation, freedom and mercy.
What is happening today?
“The yuan is an issue, and then the export tax rebates,” said Sherman Chan, an economist with Moody’s Economy.com in Sydney. “People think that the yuan has been artificially kept at a very low rate in order to sustain China’s export competitiveness,” she said.
Beijing has kept the yuan in a tight range of around 6.84 per dollar over the last seven months, having let it rise 19 percent since revaluation in 2005. Before that, it was pegged to the US dollar since 1994. In the space of 10 years, China has moved from being a non-manufacturing automotive parts nation in a world giant in the automotive industry. How did this transformation happen?
The first thing that China has been respected because of the size of the Chinese market, they would be able to dictate the direction the market will take the improvement of Chinese automobile industry. After this determination, the decision of China was to decide if you want to sell cars in China, these vehicles must be built in China. Manufacturers would not build cars abroad and import them into their market. No free trade, not fair trade. If you want to sell cars in China, we must build them in China, but this should in partnership with a Chinese company to form a new company, we can not control 49 percent.
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A Possible Solution To This Problem?
Import Certificates are an idea for governmental economic intervention to fix a country’s trade deficit. The idea was first proposed by Warren Buffett. In the United States, the idea was first introduced legislatively in the Balanced Trade Restoration Act of 2006. The proposed legislation was sponsored by Senators Byron Dorgan (ND) and Russell Feingold (WI), two Democrats in the United States senate. Since then there has been no action on the bill.
Buffett’s plan proposes creating a market for import certificates that would represent the right to import a certain dollar amount of goods into the United States from other countries. These certificates would be issued to US exporters in an amount equal to the dollar amount of the goods they export, and can be sold to importers, who must purchase them in order to legally import goods. The price of an import certificate is set by free-market forces, and therefore ultimately is dependent on the balance between imported and exported goods through supply and demand.
Proceeds from the sale of import certificates would encourage exporters (who would gain that extra money in addition to the proceeds of their exports) and discourage importers (who would need to pay the additional cost to acquire import certificates as well as the cost to acquire the goods they are importing)
This system would essentially create a broad-based tariff on imports to the United States. Unlike traditional tariffs, however, this would not favour any particular industry or punish any particular country. Market forces would also keep the tariff at exactly the amount required to achieve trade balance, eventually eliminating it when it is no longer necessary.
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The only opium here is called ‘labour rights’ – or worker’s sense of deservitude. Indulge in too much of that and the whole country’s manufacturing base goes down the toilet. Poor Canadians don’t even know they’ve this dependency. And dares pushing China to pick up this ill addiction.
It’s time westerners get a taste of their own medicine. Labour rights have priced western factories out of competition for too many goods and will soon posh western factories out of a lifeline. It is choking on its own opium. China won’t make the mistake of buying western narcotics to poison its own people again – down with western style labour ‘rights’.
Charlie what you do not realize with your banter is that China is dependent on the West for exports. If this relationships fails, which it will, China and the West will need to re-focus on domestic production. This will be a catastrophic re-alignment and a period of transition as manufacturing returns to domestic mode. If I were you I’d pray that this doesn’t happen. Also, you must realize that the US is probably going to default on its debt to China, so your country will likely suffer from this as well.
This is a thoughtful article. I don’t think it gives the whole picture. But it would not be reasonable to expect an article of such length to be able to do this.
Essentially, IMHO, PRC was given “preferential” access to the US market for “playing nice” with the prevailing international order, with acknowledgment of the US$ as the reigning supremo.
Going forward, IMHO, a barter, or a balanced “basket-of-currency” based medium of trade will be inevitable. Exactly what are American middle class getting out of the American currency being the world’s reserve currency these days anyways? Someone please answer my question.
Unfortunately Charlie, you are only half-right about the opium of labour “rights”. I don’t think the people behind this website are champions of cultural marxism.
The Chinese “chose” Communism for its faux egalitarian appeal. Just as every other people who either “chose” or had militant socialism imposed upon this, they were bitterly disappointed in the end.
A “Jesus” reform is the only reform that will save China.
Dear Ocean, the Americans are getting the privilege of selling OIL in dollars by having their currency as the reserve status. It also gives them privilege of never having to repay debts since all major transactions are done in dollars. It gets more complicated than this, but it is the essence of the benefit to US to be the reserve currency. I am in no way endorsing it. I am just saying that’s the way things are in this “dog eat dog” world we live in.
Thanks for your reply, Jason. I understood a few years ago that essentially US as a whole was “getting something for nothing” by denominating world trade in fiat American $ – with the reluctant consent of the rest of the world.
That is a Faustian bargain because other countries would also want you to give up something in return for acquiescing to using “your” money as the means of all international exchange.
So in essence, there is this partially valid impression that perhaps America “paid” for the privilege of getting something for nothing by sacrificing their own middle class jobs.
Let me compare America to a person – me, and her bread-and-butter middle-american manufacturing to my “day job”.
If I get to print my “own money” to pay for everything necessity and luxury in life, simply because everybody looks at me in awe and openly concedes that I am the most gifted, the most blessed of all; and they all darn well know that I carry the biggest stick ever graced the planet village – so big that it’s bigger than all others’ combined, then why do I need to force myself to toil at an unglamorous day job?
Therefore, to me a simple fact is that America as a whole (unlike Europe or Japan for example), has deemed her middle-class manufacturing to be expendable because she can more easily get what they produce for “nothing” from China.
The “nothing” here is a pile of electronic US dollars, of course, which is unrepayable – a fact clearly know to both sides of the Pacific.
Even though this monetary “hegemony” comes at a real and undeniable cost to the middle American families, to me, a naturalized Canadian originally from China, America as a whole has deemed this trade-off to be acceptable.
A real cynic may point out that at least China paid for her opium in the 19th century with real silver. But America these days are getting her opium essentially for “free”.
so why would a addict to “free” drugs quit?
Hello. You brought up some very interesting points. I am glad to have a Chinese-Canadian’s perspective on this issue. Yes, China paid for the opium with real assets. I think many people who read my article (or who don’t read the whole thing) think I am being somewhat critical of China, when in fact I am being critical of the US. Many people have chips on their shoulders.
I think that the US will have to quit its addiction to cheap(er) goods from Asia when the citizenry rise up to the occasion when their livelihoods are destroyed. Actually, I think it would have happened if Barrack Hussein Obama was not elected. Saying that, Obama is actually a false hope. They put a black face into the white house thinking it would quell civil unrest. God help us all if he gets re-elected.
I realize your vantage point, Jason. We all reserve judgment on Obama after all. Not everybody was/is/will be head over heels for him. A peasant like me will likely remain forever baffled over Obama’s inner motivation for the highest office in the world’s greatest plutocracy.
But while he is there, he deserves a chance just like everybody else for the Great Plutocracy purports to be based on merit, and not on skin color or middle name.
I think the “rise up” of the American people would have happened long ago had America as a whole forced herself to stop “getting something for nothing”. I actually think Obama immensely sympathizes with middle americans – much more so than McCain or Bush. But as long as America, as a whole, gets to print welfare cheques to out-of-manufacturing-jobs middle americans to “buy” things from Walmart that American again in essence, “gets for free”, how likely do you think you’d see a “rise up” out a an untenable situation?
And therefore, my central contention to your well-written, concerned article is that perhaps the real opium here is the American dollar hegemony. The question is not whether the proposed Import Certificate is a good idea. But whether or not America has the will to execute it.
Weaning off of this “getting something for nothing” will instantly NECESSITATE it.
And rest assured, there are non-Americans out there who can see for themselves that someone such as Ron Paul is a REAL American patriot.
Just that his time has not yet come.
BTW, just as the “buying for nothing” has hollowed out parts of America, the “selling for nothing” has corrupted China.
But that’s another topic.