In article <dxhpd.7450$3U4.216120@news02.tsnz.net>, 
grawillers@hotmail.com says...
> 
> "Sally" <esdemio@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:b8bcd929.0411221957.e0308b@posting.google.com...
> .
> >
> > easy enough - buy Chinese!  That is where America buys!
> 
> So does NZ - not that we are a major economy or anything but since the US
> threatened trade sanctions if we didn't let their nuclear ships back into NZ
> ports the NZ government have drawn up a free trade agreement with China
> instead.
> **** 'em!
> The only smart move the NZ government have made for a while IMO.
> By the way - the Chinese textile industry will be supplying over half of the
> US clothes market within 3 years at current growth rates. Shame for Mexico,
> Cambodia and Bangladesh and suchlike countries but thats globalisation fer
> yooz.
> Lets hope for American's sakes that the central Asian banks continue to
> bankroll the US military machine and rampant consumerism or the US really
> *is* screwed this time.
> Oil grabbing is just so expensive these days - especially when you **** it
> up.

Meanwhile US (and other) consumers are busily financing China's future 
as a superpower.  Not too smart.

Verno