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RUSH: Tom in Nieves, Minnesota, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. I\u2019m glad to be on your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Uh, I\u2019ve got a question about something that was brought up yesterday, okay? And on the news I was listening to this, how they\u2019re having a toothpaste recall that was made — the toothpaste was made in China, and it has a little bit of radiator coolant in it, and this made me start thinking about the dog food and these toys that have been recalled as well, too, with lead paint on them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay? Now, this all comes about, you know, with the dog food killing the dogs, the lead paint that\u2019s bad for the kids, the toothpaste that\u2019s bad for us…<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s only bad for the kids if they eat the paint — and you know, when I was a kid, my mom did not let us lick the window sills. You know, there\u2019s a reason lead was in paint. There\u2019s a reason that they used Freon on the space shuttle tanks so they didn\u2019t damage the shuttle.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Anyway, I\u2019m off the beaten path. What\u2019s your complaint, that they\u2019re sending all these inferior products here so why are we trading with them?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Why are we trading with them?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, because in general, trade with foreign countries like this is good. It provides cheaper prices for consumers, makes the dollar go farther. It sponsors international cooperation. It\u2019s a good thing. You know, free trade is an excellent thing. Now, you have incidents like this and they\u2019re all being bundled together. But the ChiComs are taking care of this. They execute the companies\u2019 CEOs who screw up. The other day, one CEO, the toy company guy, killed himself. They had a different sense of honor over there than CEOs around the world, but these are anomalies. I\u2019m going to tell you a dirty little secret, too. I\u2019ll tell you something.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are always political reasons for things as well as economic.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: One of the problems we face with the ChiComs is that they\u2019re a giant communist country, and they have a military, and they present a formidable military foe, should such circumstances arrive. One of the purposes of the US government, any government — well, I would say this is not true if the wrong Democrat ended up in, but — one of the ways that you destroy a totalitarian regime is by trading with it, by introducing capitalism, by exporting capitalism, say, to a closed society. Do you know China now has a billionaire? They\u2019ve got multimillionaires. The biggest challenge that the president of China has every day — Hu Jintao is his name.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: His biggest challenge when he wakes up is finding and creating 25 million new jobs a year, and the reason he has to do that is because he has to keep the majority of the Chinese population that lives in the countryside, in the countryside. If those people can\u2019t find work and means to support themselves and live, they\u2019re going to flood the cities, and that would cause the ChiComs to lose control of their population. They don\u2019t want to lose control of their population any more than the Soviet Union did under glasnost and perestroika. But when you introduce capitalism and you start trading, and you give them this great big trade balance that they have a surplus with us and they\u2019re invested in our treasury bills, it weakens us in some sense, but without but the United States, they\u2019re nothing, in an economic sense. That\u2019s true for much of the rest of the world, too. This is a slow but steady process of actually opening up that country to a less totalitarian regime, freedom for the people, economic freedom, and economic opportunity and advancement for the Chinese people. That\u2019s a theory behind it. Now, these tainted products that come in, those are anomalies — unless the ChiComs are actually trying to kill our kids and our dogs and cats, and some people wouldn\u2019t put it past \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s kind of what popped in my head when I sit there and think, well, it happened with the dog food, then the toys, now the toothpaste. I mean, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but nobody die from it. Some people got sick. Dogs did. Some of the dogs and cats did. I don\u2019t mean to call them nobodies, but the recalls are happening, and we\u2019ve got enough inspection systems here that Mattel knows when they\u2019re getting lead-tainted toys in. I\u2019m going to tell you, though: when the ChiComs start executing the CEOs that do this stuff, it means they don\u2019t like this, either. This does not help them. They\u2019re going to have people saying a different version of the question that you are asking, and they\u2019re afraid that a lot of Americans are going to stop buying Chinese stuff because of this. So they will try to get a handle on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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