Dem Sen. Wyden refuses to not support China's slave labor

Wyden heils Herr Nike

For a man whose parents had to flee Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) doesn't seem to care about others who are unable to flee from captivity in China and are under the constant threat of torture and genocide.

Wyden callously blocked bipartisan efforts on Wednesday to push through a bill that would ban imports from communist China's Xinjiang region where genocide against religious minorities is being carried out and the work that creates products from that region is being done with slave labor. 

And Hillary Clinton called Trump voters "deplorables." 

“Wyden blocked a bill that would ban goods made with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region after Senator Marco Rubio [R-FL] rejected his request to add an unrelated extension of the child tax credit,” Bloomberg News reported. “The bill has broad bipartisan support and was on track for quick final passage by unanimous consent after having cleared the House by a voice vote.”

What was Wyden thinking? Oh wait! Nike, whose shoes are made in China, has lobbied Congress to weaken the bill, is the top financial contributor to Wyden. 

So money talks and morals walk.

“I am completely sympathetic to my colleague from Florida, my colleague from Oregon, to the fight against genocide and forced labor,” Wyden falsely claimed. “They got me at hello on their proposition. I also feel incredibly strongly, incredibly strongly about our vulnerable children and our vulnerable families that are going to be cut off from an essential lifeline unless the United States Senate acts.”

Communist China is so evil with its genocide of religious minorities that even the Biden administration sees the problem and announced a diplomatic boycott in early December of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.

“The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the PRC’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said earlier this month. “The athletes on Team USA have our full support. We will be behind them 100 percent as we cheer them on from home. We will not be contributing to the fanfare of the Games.”

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“U.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these Games as business as usual in the face of the PRC’s egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang. And we simply can’t do that,” Psaki added. “As the President has told President Xi, standing up for human rights is in the DNA of Americans. We have a fundamental commitment to promoting human rights. And we feel strongly in our position, and we will continue to take actions to advance human rights in China and beyond.”

Following the powerful statement by Psaki, Australia, Canada, the UK, and Lithuania joined the bandwagon. All have agreed to a diplomatic boycott and Lithuania announced that they will not even be attending the Games and therefore can avoid the embarrassment of not winning any medals again.

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They're Going Nuts in Lansing

They're going nuts in Lansing.  They knocked down a Koch Brothers tent with people inside, cut the ropes, then cut the canvas as they swore at the victims of their violence who were still inside the tent.

They're beating drums in protest like children throwing a tantrum.  But it looks like the Freedom to Work Bill is going to pass.  If Michigan becomes a Right to Work state, which it appears will happen, workers will have the right to join or not join a union.  But Democrats, like Doug Geiss, say "there will be blood."  Even Obama stuttered his approval of the demonstrations and the socialist values of the demonstrators.

Now Obama can talk about something else other than the fiscal cliff.  Maybe that isn't so important anymore, like Benghazi, Solyndra, or Fast and Furious.  Unkions are important to him--maybe because they gave so much money to his campaign.  You would think Obama would be in President Mode rather than Campaign Mode, but he's a much better campaigner than he is president. He is a much better socialist than he is a capitalist.

The Great Uniter Obama is and always was, the Great Divider.

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Fast Food and Furious

I never thought it would happen in America--a country where kids used to stand in class and recite the Pledge of Allegiance--you know, the "One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," pledge. Where the government respected the rights of the individual and did not treat its citizens as children. Where we were responsible for our own choices: we could smoke cigarettes and get cancer, and all cigarette companies were required to do was inform us of the risk. Where we could have a McFat Burger with fries, an apple pie made with palm oil for dessert, and a slurpee to wash it all down. It was our choice. We could even have public Christmas displays in our shopping malls.

Now we are no longer allowed to use the name of God in our pledge, and many schools are not even allowed to say the Pledge of Allegiance. So to whom do we give our allegiance? I think the answer is obvious: to the rules and regulations of government.

The dietary dysfunction of our First Lady has now become her obsession with us, and we must obey her rules. McDonald's burgers are out and what she deems as health food is in. There are school districts in the USA where school cafeterias are no longer allowed to serve certain foods because it is making the kids obese. Some of these privately owned cafeterias had to close up business, and the kids now go to area pizza parlors for lunch. Now there is talk about restricting fast food restaurants from operating near schools.

What about the rights of parents? Don't they have the right to make decisions about what their kids eat, and let's face it, there are times when a parent doesn't have the time and/or energy to cook a lean cuisine meal for junior, and fast food fits the bill for those occasions. So the government has become the Nanny State, where the responsiblities of child-rearing have been removed from the parents and placed in the hands of our lawmakers. How wonderful is that? How Big Brother-ish are we becoming? 

Unions protecting the least competent

When government begins to dictate the minutia of our lives, they can more easily dictate the more important aspects of them too. A government that does this is rightly called a dictatorship. And this is what liberals seem to want because they believe the masses do not have the ability to care for themselves. It reminds me of unions who take care of incompetent workers by making it almost impossible for management to fire them--think teacher's unions, for example.


I believe our next election is going to be a referendum not only on Obama and his socialist policies, but on the Nanny State in general and how people are fed up being lied to and shown feigned caring for by BIG GOVERNMENT.


Liberals hate the wealthy in this country because they demonstrate success in spite of government interference in their lives.

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