Bill’s commentary:
“Are you better off now than from a year ago?”
‘It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.’ Dr. Arthur Laffer. (1940-).
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Bill’s commentary:
“Do you understand what is happening? The US has bullied and pillaged the world for many years. The rest of the world led by China and Russia are standing up to the bully. Are you ready for a drastic change in your standard of living?”
A massive, 4000-word scathing critique of American foreign policy was circulated by Chinese embassies hosted in Western countries this week, including to American officials and media. It included a lengthy laundry list of US crimes abroad and imperialist tactics.
The long essay was first published in state-run Xinhua News agency, and is entitled “U.S. Hegemony and Its Perils”. It heavily focuses on Washington’s recent wars in the Middle East, which have killed many tens of thousands of people, as well as bullying sanctions on countries like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and Russia which have had a strangling effect on entire populations.
For a sampling of the kind rhetoric contained in the essay, which at this point has semi-official status as a Chinese government document (again, given it’s being circulated by the Chinese embassy in D.C., among others), one section begins: “So far, the United States had or has imposed economic sanctions on nearly 40 countries across the world, including Cuba, China, Russia, the DPRK, Iran and Venezuela, affecting nearly half of the world’s population.”
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