National Review mag on Unocal...

[Deja Q]

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/tamny200506300854.asp

...CNOOC’s bid must not fail in Washington, and should fail only if Unocal’s shareholders deem a competing offer more impressive.

Whew boy.

May as well sell us all out.

And personally hand-give our politicians to theirs for not stepping in with this offshroing business decades ago (thanks Nixon, Reagan...). :crazy:

[enid602]

1. trade

What else are the Chinese to do with their dollars? Sure, we'll lose control, but the villains are not the Chinese. We gave up our right to complain about this and other issues when our government decided it was perfectly OK to sustain month after month (and year after year) of huge, unsustainable trade deficits with China.

[Deja Q]

2. I gave up nothing. I never had it in the first place. Neither did you.

Corporations are the ones buying out our elected officials.

The American people are simply stupid and are too bought out by the illusion they can be just as wealthy as those in power.

Our corporations are to blame. Can't boycott them. But the government could have put in some restrictions. Whoops, they hadn't. They did quite the contrary.

say let China buy us out. It'll make them happy.