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Is GOP Playing Belgium to China's Germany For Illegal Campaign Donations?

Somehow Bad News is Always Worse As the Days Grow Shorter

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Reading an article on the Solyndra collapse, I sense there is a possibility that China undercut an amazing American chance to create better solar cells.


Republicans say": Welcome.

World wide trade is good. but at the expense of a better system created by Americans?

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And instead of warning Americans, Republicans are using the incident to attack the president. As usual they are waging a phony political battle to try to unseat the one person who has the best chance to help our nation escape a Europe-like melt down.

After all is Rick "no social security" Perry or Mitt "jobs destroyer" Romney going to do that for us?

The LA Times article does not come out and say that China is playing economic warfare games, it just notes that as Solyndra was trying to gain a workable market share with a superior product suddenly the Chinese started dropping the price of their inferior flat solar panels until Solyndra really had no choice other than to give up the fight when they couldn't get another large loan from the government.

So, if anything, the Republicans shouldn't be blaming the Obama administration for lending money to Solyndra, (which was backed by both Democratic donors and Republican donors), but for giving up too early.

But, still it is unknown how far the Chinese would go in cutting prices and it was likely to be unfathomable what the outcome could be. The government may have done the best thing after all.

The best way to know whether if Solyndra was a victim of an economic act of war is to see if China now raises the price of their flat, less efficient, solar panels. If they do, I think we have our answer, and we should do something about it.

Tarriffs? Fund companies making cheaper solar panels in the US?

Don't bother asking the GOP leaders though. They have their little story all set up.

For those of you uncertain of how China can give illegal donations check out the Citizen's United decisions which allow corporations and others to give unidentified donations. That's how. You think the govt of China is going to tell us how they are waging war on our economy?? Republicans love the unidentified corporate donations, so they're likely to love Chinese participation in their campaigns. Now wonder they have no problem with Citizens United while they promote the bipartisan Solyndra as a Democratic problem. That's so
Belgium.

I tell you that I don't worry about a little Crony Capitalism though I don't think you can call the Solyndra loans by that name since people donating to both Republicans and Democrats were heavy investors in the company. What I fear more is Crony Fascism, the kind of deals I see coming out of the GOP and China.

And BTW, China, I am no longer so sanguine that you want to buy our baseball team out here in Los Angeles if you are going to play economic warfare on our green energy companies.

You can read a report on Solyndra's history at the LA Times which does not hint of any suspicion of economic warfare at: Solyndra's collapse is a tale of too much dazzle.

Rick Perry Turned Over Teacher Retirement Funds to Political Cronies

In another example of what appears to be quid pro quo, activity between the Texas Governor and some of his campaign contributors.   See Mother Jones: How Rick Perry Put Teacher Retirement Money in His Cronies' Hands

Video: Crazy Rick Perry, His State's Struggling Schools, and His Faith in Abstinence

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Someone called Perry "19th century". I think he's positively "Elmer Gantry" crossed with "George W Bush". Most news people though are promoting him like he isn't a looney, greedy, and corrupt exploiter of hyper-restrictive religion for monetary gain.

Rick Perry Doesn't Like the Constitution

Rick Perry is already planning major changes to the constitution to help it serve fat cats and corporations much better.

If course that means serving less well off Americans much worse.

Along with the changes to state constitution rights that will make it much harder for young people, working class families, and minorities to vote, Perry's presidency could set the way for a long period, possibly many decades before the majority really has a say in our nation again.

In the meantime, Republicans intend for the wealthy to control the nation completely leading to the use of the workforce as slavish suffering drones and soldiers to enrich those like the Koch brothers and other super wealthy. Make no mistake. The Iraq war shows how far they will go to allow young Americans to die so the GOP's sponsors can grab wealthy from other nations. Of course they won't be able to continue to do so with our voluntary army if the economy is anywhere but in the toilet so it's very convenient that our jobs market looks like crap.

But most honest experts agree that the next real war, especially an invasion will bring a draft. The Selective Service has already decided that the draft should be extended to age 35 and to include females. In addition, workers with skills that are lacking in the military, will be drafted from any age. We also know that war is being privatized. Do not expect the GOP to not expand that opportunity. So, what kinds of workers would a privatized military need. They'd need expensive ones for which they aren't willing to pay the going wage. And yes it's happened before that the military drafted everyday doctors with families and sent them to Korea. The selective Service has already singled out the medical field as on in which they believe they will need to draft people into the military.

Besides doctors, think computer programmers, systems analysts, etc. as jobs that a privatized military might feel are positions too expensive to hire at market rate. If the military is willing to draft doctors because they won't pay enough for them, the why, in the age of Blackwater/Xe. In fact if you have a good job at good pay, and a military contractor wants you, what rights do you have? As we have seen from earlier wars, maybe none at all.

So luckily a President Perry will have all those nasty constitutional rights that the rich and the right wing don't like done away with.

And the state GOP have been working on your ability to vote.

Because if the GOP can stop all your chances to get ahead and to climb up the ladder, then White America, can keep their lovely supremacy. Luckily the recession hit minorities harder than whites so just shutting down chances for minority advancement is all it will take.

So Perry wants the Supreme Court to be overruled by Congress which the GOP plans to control. He also wants an anti-abortion amendment to the Constitution so poorer people will become breeders for the military and big business.

He will stop food, housing, and educational aid for the poor by doing away income tax, which will keep minorities from advancing.

Racist whites have been waiting to get back to the good old days of keeping everyone else down. The GOP will cage their work as humanitarian, Christian, job creating, anything but what it really is, racist and classist as they snooker middle class whites into thinking they will come out on top, while the Party is selling them to the super rich and corporations.

See Rick Perry's wish list for changing the Constitution and our Government to install permanent racism and class warfare on our nation. And don't forget the wars that business plans so they can get cheap resources. Perry will make a straight path for our children to get jobs, military kill or be killed jobs. And we'll be stuck in a semi-democracy as hard to get our rights in as the minorities experienced before Civil Rights.

Read "Seven ways Rick Perry wants to change the Constitution"

Perry: Bernanke Helping People Get Jobs Would Be Treasonous

In full Foghorn Leghorn voice Rick Perry proclaims that more stimulus before the election would be treacherous er he meant "treeaasonoouus". My God! How dare the president's Fed chairman do something to help people when the Republicans (especially Perry) want to take over, get that war on Iran thing going, and slice up the nation to put under the control of their big donors.
See Bloomberg report Perry Says Fed Spending Before Election Would Be ‘Treasonous’ And BTW, did you notice that Perry is already acting like he's won the election and owns us all. "I don't know what I'll do with him"???? Is that a threat, Governor?