Meyerson Identifies the Real "Un-Americans"
Posted by jeckert on 09/23/2010
Today in the Washington Post, Harold Meyerson says the Tea Party is right in that there are "un-Americans" among us despite the fact that he disagrees with who they are:
Given the explosive growth of the Chinese economy, it's a safe bet that every major U.S. corporation will devote greater resources to building, buying and selling there. But China, unlike the Obama administration, truly is guided by an ideology alien to most Americans -- Leninism -- and wields far greater control over what U.S. corporations can and can't do there than the U.S. government does over what corporations can and can't do here. Our leading companies' economic interests, and those of their Chinese hosts, whom they cross at their peril, are increasing likely to pit them against proposals that diminish China's edge, however obtained, in global competition. As the Tea Partyers contend, there are un-Americans among us. They hold some of the most powerful offices in the land.Read more.
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