Maggie's Farm

Good people: Now hear this:
Owning every tree from the Pacific to the Missouri in the late 1880's gave rise to the largest timber company in the world. The income from that enterprise provided the financing for the upstart companis called Boeing and US Bank. In turn the next generation of original families built NORDSTROM, UPS, COSTCO, MICROSOFT. Now, unfortunately for the rest of us, those families and the union that confronts them regularly really, really, really want strong commercial relationships with the Chinese. Of course being located in one of the few really great and protected deep water ports has always been a major facet of these industries. But now, that is no longer enough. The Chinese government wants something more---they want our civil rights reduced (so there people won't become so uppity). They want these families to reduce freedoms in many areas in exchange for their "commercial position" in China. Thus you have Microsoft paying Billions of dollars every year just to try to get greater control over the internet. You have a major city and state with completely corrupted legislative and election processes. AND, most terrifying of all you have these people reaching across America to make sure you all co-operate on the new rules! If you question my logic just take a look at what the local gals have managed to do to the entire Episcopal, Methodist, and Lutheran churches in America. Their values strengthened the individual's ability to resist--can't have that in the new "China Friendly US".