melsjumpsite.com » trade http://melsjumpsite.com/wp Spinning the Web since 1994 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:15:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hard to understand this one… http://melsjumpsite.com/wp/2008/05/hard-to-understand-this-one/ http://melsjumpsite.com/wp/2008/05/hard-to-understand-this-one/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 19:48:43 +0000 melt http://melsjumpsite.com/wp/2008/05/28/hard-to-understand-this-one/ monitor1

The U.S. government has filed complaints with the European Union about tariffs on products, computer monitors, not even manufactured here, but merely sold from here.  It seems HP and Dell are up in arms over the tariffs and want their guys over in government to do something about it.  Everyone knows that monitors are almost exclusively made in Asia.  Dell monitors are made by Phillips, which moved all their monitor making facilities to China long ago, and Samsung.  Likewise with HP I suspect.  But in any case, it seems our government could better serve its people by protecting jobs a little closer to home.

Here’s the jump to Google article

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]]> http://melsjumpsite.com/wp/2008/05/hard-to-understand-this-one/feed/ 0 China outsourcing torture to U.S. http://melsjumpsite.com/wp/2008/05/china-outsourcing-torture-to-us/ http://melsjumpsite.com/wp/2008/05/china-outsourcing-torture-to-us/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 13:22:08 +0000 melt http://melsjumpsite.com/wp/?p=34 “U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report.
According to the report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, an FBI agent reported a detainee belonging to China’s ethnic Uighur minority and a Uighur translator told him Uighur detainees were kept awake for long periods, deprived of food and forced to endure cold for hours on end, just prior to questioning by Chinese interrogators.”

Well, well, we have finally found something that the Chinese won’t or can’t do.  Maybe now we can start cutting away at that big trade deficit.  And we should take a page from their playbook and create a Free Trade Zone where all  activities such as this are free from any U.S. taxes.  That would sure get the ball rolling.  Great opportunity for a start-up here folks, and I’m sure there are many bankers that would piss themselves for the chance to provide financing.

Here’s the link to the ABCNews story.

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