The Red Menace; U.S. Jobs & World Influences in Decline, While China keeps rising Polls Say:

The Red Menace; U.S. Jobs & World Influences in Decline, While China keeps rising Polls Say:
By Marc Chamot

Americans are finally waking up and smelling the coffee on the Red Menace, and that is China. Most Americans NOW think China is a big problem for the United States and for its future.

As U.S. jobless benefits claims spike, layoffs are no longer dropping as they were in the final months of last year, reinforcing fears that the jobs crisis will weigh down consumer spending and the economic rebound. But thanks for years of inept and very corrupt Washington politicians, and now, the majority of Americans believe that the United States has fallen second best to China, over jobs and world influence.

“Facing high unemployment and a difficult economy, most Americans think the United States will have a smaller role in the world economy in the coming years, and many believe that while the 20th century may have been the "American Century," the 21st century will belong to China.

These results come from a new Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted during a time of significant tension between Washington and Beijing.”

It’s been slow in coming, but we all saw it, we knew that it would happen sooner or later, and it has. At the accelerated pace in which it occurred, over the past two decades, it’s just too mind boggling to even think about it.

Presidents in both parties, and congress, one after the next, just pandering away to China’s every whims.

American industries after industries, at the expense of massive American jobs losses, which were all given away to China, in return for their massive loans that are sustaining our growing massive debts and deficits, it’s just incredulous.

And here are these Obamacrats, who want to add billions of dollars more onto our debts and deficits, and more loans from China, to help finance their asinine and costly liberal public programs, and there is no end in sight from all these stupidities.

But, “Analysts say the bubbling anti-China sentiment in the United States could constitute a problem for U.S. policy toward that country if the polls also coincide, as they seem to, with growing support for trade protectionism.”

I say heck yes, Americans are finally waking up, we’re communicating with each other, and we don’t trust the corruptive presses either, and we’re fighting back, this should constitute a big problem for these inept Washington politicians, who keep up with these anti-American destructive charades.

Mark my words, as China unpopularity polls keep raising, this issue among Americans will become a Death Rails in American politics, with no job securities and futures of these useless and stubborn Washington politicians.

Poll shows concern about American influence waning as China's grows
"China's on the rise," said Wayne Nunnery, 56, a retired U.S. Air Force employee from Bexar, Tex., who was one of 1,004 randomly selected adults polled. "I don't worry about a Chinese century, but I do wonder how it's going to be for my three sons."

Asked whether this century would be more of an "American Century" or more of a "Chinese Century," Americans divide evenly in terms of the economy (41 percent say Chinese, 40 percent American) and tilt toward the Chinese in terms of world affairs (43 percent say Chinese, 38 percent American). A slim majority say the United States will play a diminished role in the world's economy this century, and nearly half see the country's position shrinking in world affairs more generally.

The results are consistent with recent polls by Gallup, the Pew Research Center and others that have tracked a significant public concern about China's growing prominence on the world stage, as its economy has expanded into what is arguably the second-biggest in the world.

In 2000, for example, when the U.S. economy was booming, 65 percent of Americans polled by Gallup said the United States had the world's strongest economy. By last year, the United States and China ran neck-and-neck on the question.

Annetta Jordan, another poll participant, said in a follow-up interview that she has witnessed the shifting economic strength firsthand. Jordan, a mother of two from Sandoval, N.M., was working at a cellular telephone plant in the early 1990s as production and hiring were ramped up. By 1992, the plant had 3,200 workers. "Then this whole China thing started and we were very quickly training Chinese to take our jobs," she said. Now the plant has 100 people left.

"We're transferring our wealth to China," she said. "I see that as a very negative thing. When I was younger, a lot of corporations had a lot of pride and patriotism toward America. But corporations have changed. If we in the U.S. go down, that's okay; they'll just move their offices to Beijing."

Carla Hills, the former U.S. trade representative who negotiated China's entry into the World Trade Organization in the late 1990s, said any shift in American public opinion away from China is a concern.

"I really worry about public opinion in both countries getting ahead of where we want to be," she said. "I worry about the public discourse here that 'it's all China's fault,' and the reverse in China that says we're trying to push China around."

In a poll last year in urban areas of China done by the Lowy Institute, Australia's premier think tank, Chinese respondents picked the United States as the No. 1 threat to China's rise by a factor of two over Japan and India, which were tied for second place.