On holiday a couple of weeks ago we had lunch with a couple of delightful young Americans on a world tour. One interesting thing they said was how difficult it was these days to buy US manufactured goods in the shops in the States. I noticed this amusing little piece in the Guardian Diary.
As the Tea Party enlivens the political scene in the US, say what you like about them, but there is no doubting that they are patriots. Two thousand-plus turned up for a Tea Party Patriots meeting in Richmond, Virginia, recently and each was given a little plastic Stars and Stripes flag which bore a sticker saying, “This flag has been to all 9/11 crash sites – Flight 935 site, Ground Zero, Pentagon.” Each also had a tiny motif in the corner: “Made in China”.
A superb and laudable example of international free trade at work. Relatively impoverished Chinese are enabled to do the simple work of making plastic flags and better educated Americans are freed to turn their talents to other more sophisticated tasks. Of course, in the socialist ‘Utopia’ you inhabit, Councillor, no doubt you would be lining up the union pickets with cries of “Keep our jobs at home”, thus, had you had your way back in the day, we would still be driving around in horse and carts!
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Duffers, I think you’ll find that the collection of myths, bigotry, prejudices and downright lies that passes for a Tea Party political manifesto contains several internal contradictions, not least when it comes to their alleged free market fundamentalism.
If the Tea Party rallies are ‘sophisticated’ to you, Duffers, I shudder to think what you consider to be simplistic.
I wonder if Duffers thinks that the US political scene – particularly when the Tea Party are involved – really is ‘sophisticated’ when he sees things like this:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37443_Rand_Paul_Supporters_Stomp_Woman/
Ian and Dan, I have checked, nay, double checked, even triple checked, what I wrote and I cannot see a mention of the Tea Party, not even in the sub-text. (‘Sub text’ is a phrase belov-ed of ‘luvvies’ which roughly translates as ‘haven’t a clue what the playwright’s on about, let’s make it up; or, I don’t agree with what he wrote, he should have said this. Almost like politics, really!)
Well, you should have noticed when doing all that ‘checking’ that you were replying to a post about the Tea Party.
Perhaps I should not have assumed that your reply had any relation to the topic at hand, and was instead just the ramblings of a delusional right wing troll. I see my mistake now.