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Sunday, April 01, 2007

US glosses over paper cut

Today(later there will be talk of yesterday. I'm only adding the first part on today, the day after i wrote the later part before the even later part which i wrote today. just before this.), i went for guitar. showed everyone else how to play spain properly. theyre still doing it rong, but not as wrong as last time. anyway thats not the weird part. the weird part is that mr gaspar asked me to do an ad lib for spain. solo. aka stand up and play a melody alone. on a contrabass. so i got what i wanted after all. and thats not ncessarily a good thing. means I have to practice... well good luck to me...
Top of the news today(or rather yesterday. i was halfway though the post yesterday when i had to stop. so there.): the US has imposed tariffs on imports of China-made glossy paper. whoa hold it there. glossy paper? you got to be kidding me. first of all, why just stop at glossy paper? why not all paper? from card to tracing paper to tissue paper. and is this paper actually that much cheaper? maybe not on a small scale, but on large scales, like when youre fabricating evidence of non-existent weapons of mass destruction, for example, it does make a difference. lets do the math. if each piece of paper is .01 cents cheaper, then a few million sheets would cost 1000 dollars less. thats still not a lot. but note that paper is used for everyday things. writing documents, search warrants, school assignments, and tools of torture, so ther will be more than a million. probably thousands of millions. meaning 100s and thousands of dolars saved.
But all this fuss over glossy paper? its not like theyre fighting over nuclear disarmament or prisoners being wrongfully held or so called weapons of mass destruction that china has. its glossy paper. maybe glossy paper is a code word, so that the media wont send wrong signals to the public.
Washington is increasing duties from 10.9% to 20.4%. see i did my research. anyway thats a 10% increase. a lot. and this is paper. i believe that paper should be free, and that people have the right o free paper, so I will liberate paper from the opression of the evil paper tyrant who controls paper with an iron fist...
sorry i got a bit side tracked. back to the point. now there are cheap chinese products coming into the US. this is bad for them. duh. and they are trying to decrease the trade deficit. and theyre doing this by imposing tariffs on glossy paper. this is a sure fire way to get the deficit down. you see mr bush sir, you should have just invaded china instead of iraq. this is what you get when you dont nip problems in the bud. but you had to bring up your vendetta against saddam hussein. and theres the oil. but youre still worse off cos china still is in commision. maybe its not too late... now all you can accuse them of doing is handing out government grants and other unfair subsidies.come on you can do better than that. like accuse them of having weapons of mass destruction! you did that with iraq you can do it with china. and it doesnt matter if the international community doesnt agree with you. you can do it anyway.
Us commerce secretary Mr. Carlos Gutierrez said, i quote"it does not signal any eonomic retreat from engagement with China, rather it speaks of the growing strength of our commercial relationship and the fact that as economic partners, we must be, above all, fair." now consider this. as econoic partneres we must be fair above all else. is bombing ppl under false pretenses for economic gain fair? how bout all those peopel who lost their lives? not just the people you invade, but those invading, who are none the wiser? maybe it is fair. on your terms. so china beware. this is what fair really means.

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