In lieu of the Chinese Threat to sell dollars and liquidate US debt...

[WCGreen]

Perhaps we should hold the Olympic games over them...

You know, just a thought...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. But but but...

That sounds like blackmail!

:scared:


I think it's a very good thought...

[niceypoo]

2. This is where GOP tax policy has led us

Exactly what we all predicted would happen.

[WCGreen]

3. It doen't feel all that great to be vindicated....

[rockymountaindem]

4. What do you mean? A boycott?

That worked badly the last time, and Bush won't try it anyway.

[WCGreen]

5. It only went badly for Carter because Regan used it as a campaign

issue...

Think of how much China would lose if American sponsors walk off the field, you know, don't subsidize the thing through tax deductable advertising...

China should have never been awarded the Olympic games...

They took Hong Kong and squeezed the democracy right out of the Island...

They hold Tibet...

They run roughshod over any economic reform...

[rockymountaindem]

6. Yeah, well, politics seems to mean nothing

The USSR got them in 1980 when they were in Afghanistan.

[WCGreen]

7. Yea but without US participation, they were not successful...