U.S. and China not getting along these days

In case anyone didn't notice, this Wednesday's side show dinner with President Obama and Chinese President Hu, was just that...  a show for the American people. I'm sure that the objective of this little get together between the two leaders was to discuss international relations, the economy and of course, China's support of North Korea.

Well the show has been over for a day now, and it has become clear to just about everyone that the United States and China are not getting along.

For one, China (or as Glenn Beck refers to as our landlord) owns our staggering $14 trillion debt. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is begging Congress to raise the debt ceiling limits because he believes if they don't, our economy will dwindle back down into a much worse recession than in 2008. So if the Republican controlled House is going to raise the debt limits, which they vowed never to do, this means Geithner is most likely going to have to go back to China and beg for more money.

Last year, the United States tried unsuccessfully to convince China to revalue its currency, so that jobs would be imported back here. Now, the United States is trying to teach China a lesson (as embarrassing as that sounds, they're only years ahead of us) by putting tariffs on China's exports, which were passed by the House back in September.

Then you have North Korea. Its most generous supporter is of course, China. Ever since North Korea fired artillery on South Korea, China has done little to convince peace talks between the two countries. The United States today said that it will redeploy forces to Asia, if China continue to fail on getting a hold on North Korea's rather rebellious acts as of late.

The United States of course strongly believes North Korea could be a major threat if nothing is done.

So because of a crumbling economy, revaluing currency and dealing with some 4 foot dictator, these are the reasons why China and the United States can't get along lately, and yet both countries think that playing these games will solve our problems.

Thank god that's why we have the Pacific Ocean that separates one from the other. But if we don't meet our debt obligations, I guess China could move in here at any time.

Geithner pressuring Republicans to raise debt limit

U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is making a fuss today because he is putting pressure on Republican lawmakers to raise the limits on the country's $14 trillion national debt, cautioning that if no action is taken, it would lead to another economic collapse.

Geithner apparently wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid which stated that the United States might hit the debt ceiling level allowed by March 31st; his suggestion to the newly Republican controlled House of Representatives is to raise the level to avoid pushing the United States into default.

Already the bickering has started. House Speaker John Boehner released a statement that said:
"The American people will not stand for such an increase unless it is accompanied by meaningful action by the president and Congress to cut spending and end the job-killing spending binge in Washington."

Republicans primary argument is to not default, but not continue to borrow recklessly, while Geithner believes if no action is taken, the United States will begin to default on its obligations and would no longer be in a position to make interest payments, which alone total $21 billion a month for this fiscal year. He thinks that this would lead to something much more catastrophic than what was seen in 2008 and 2009.

Nonetheless, foreign lenders including China and Japan have voiced their concerns, especially seeing the financial turmoil in countries like Greece and Ireland. Those countries couldn't meet their obligations and eventually had to be bailed out. Something that Geithner is seeking to avoid again.

Seems like his primary focus is to continue to spend money so that you have revenues taken to support the debt obligations. Either way you look at it, the situation appears grim. You've got one party that wants to spend and borrow, and one party that wants to cut spending across the board.

Yet, isn't it interesting that for the last two years, Secretary Geithner has made little to no comment whatsoever about the impacts of our growing national debt, until just now?

Definition of U.S. Treasury Secretary: a Weasel

The Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is supposed to an experienced economist that has the fiduciary duty and responsibility to oversee the U.S. Treasury. Yet when economists and financial and hedge fund managers of major banking and investment groups and corporations continue to discuss the notion of the U.S. dollar weakening, Secretary Geithner continues to say this is not the case, yet he never seems to offer any evidence to support his defense.

Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Chairman, earlier this week claimed “the United States is deliberately weakening the dollar”, challenging Geithner’s responsibility over the Federal Reserve and how it establishes monetary and fiscal policy with relation to currency supply and interest rates. Geithner’s response was that “the U.S. will never do that. We will never seek to weaken our currency as a tool to gain competitive advantage to grow our economy”.

Of course not.

Geithner would simply like every one else in the world to manipulate their own currency, most notably China, which has a reputation for doing so, to solve our monetary problems. At the same time, China does not want to devalue its currency, because it would mean exporting jobs from China, back into the United States. China, which for the most part, owns the United States’ $14 trillion and growing national debt, is really focused on what the Federal Reserve’s inability to control its monetary supply without leading to further inflation, and now critics are actually thinking it might become a deflation of the U.S. dollar.

Yet, in nearly every Congressional testimony that Secretary Geithner has given, he says that the economy is growing within the private sector, despite the unemployment remaining about 9% and most likely projected to remain the same into 2011. He also made a push earlier this week to print $600 billion dollar out of nowhere, which already has foreign critics (again China) up in arms about our federal policies, which was cited by some members of Congress and economists as being another bad decision.

One has to question the motives behind printing all of this currency. The idea for doing so seems to improve the U.S. economy, but has deemed unworkable thus far. Is Secretary Geithner just doing so to make the economy look good, without any notion of thought in regards to inflation? What message are we sending to our foreign lenders over seas? Can the U.S. even continue as a place to do business in the coming years?

I will be the first to admit that I am not an economist by any means, but it does not take rocket science to figure out that Secretary Geithner is clearly continuing to act as a puppet for this Administration, standing around acting as if everything is fine and dandy. This is the same Treasury Secretary who dodged paying taxes and was President of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York during the last few years of the Bush Administration. He has the understanding of the Federal Reserve’s policy, and had full knowledge of the impending problems during the financial crisis, and played a role in bailing out AIG.

Now when you hear him testify before Congress, he acts as though he doesn’t even know what happened during that period and incites wrath in everyone else for his contributing audacity. It is quite incompetent.

I would recommend that someone make an amendment to the definition of what the Treasury Secretary is supposed to be. As far as I’m concerned, its description is... a weasel.

APEC moves forward on expanding free trade in Asian Pacific Region

President Obama, as part of his visit to Asia earlier this week, participated in the two day Asia-Pacific Economy Cooperative summit in Japan this weekend which focused on an effort to call for more ‘liberalized free trade’ in the Asian Pacific Region.

Some leaders in the region however, are not buying this. Apparently, President Obama was unable to come to an agreement with South Korea, which the United States anticipated on completing during the summit, known as the U.S.-South Korea trade deal. This has left many questions and concerns with other countries based in the region. The trade deal with South Korea was to become a catalyst for a more open and less restrictive regional trade deal called The Transpacific Partnership in the Asian Pacific Region.

Despite the fact that the United States’ trade deficit has diminished in the last few years, now to the tune of about $400 billion for fiscal year 2010, Obama seems to show a great deal of heavy dependency on establishing these trade agreements as he views Asia being one of the greatest priorities for solving diplomacy and importing jobs back into the United States. Again, it comes back to the notion of not only China, but now other countries based in the Asian Pacific Region, as to whether the United States can remain committed to such free trade proposals, while trying to stabilize our monetary supply and inflation

There is no question that the United States has, and will continue to feel the heat from China, since their currency is devalued, they can export production for far less, than what it would cost the United States to do the same job. This same week, President Obama at the G-20 summit failed to try to get garner support to influence China to undervalue their currency to the U.S. dollar, and believe that it was free trade. They can say it is free trade, while the United States continues to get murdered by such exports, but when it comes to correcting the imbalances, well, then that is not called free trade.

At the height of forging ahead with free trade throughout the Asian Pacific Region is one thing, but to basically continue to criticize China’s currency in relation to free trade, for the idiocy of our own monetary policies, is absurdly irresponsible.

United States will not garner support from G-20 to push China’s currency value

The finance ministers from the 20 major economies refused to back the United States’ push in China boosting its currency value today. The reason why the United States is doing this mainly due to the concerns over escalating disputes with China (the main lender for the U.S., by the way) and their ability to have cheap labor and exports, which the United States says is costing American jobs.

President Obama is calling this a disappointing turn of events after the leaders of the G-20 decided to not devalue their currency. Obama wanted the opposite to occur, which was a more competitive undervaluation, which would have influenced the leaders of G-20 to push China’s currency value. Furthermore, the United States fears that nations such as China, who are protective of their own currency policies and trade barriers, will send a shockwave through the global economy and put it back into a recession.

It seems as though President Obama still lives in a fantasy world of looking to every other leader to put together a plan to solve the United States’ financial woes. Why should China, which owns the United States' national debt, be forced to loosen its own currency value to help the United States? China didn't cause the economic problems in the United States, it was the poor decisions made by President Bush and the idiotic Democratic leadership of Congress, most notably individuals like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.

China, most likely is laughing hysterically at the United States, after the Obama Administration and the weasel that is Tim Geithner, choose to solve our trillions of dollars in debt.... by adding more trillions of dollars in debt. Insane. 

Obviously, the President has been completely oblivious to the Federal Reserve’s inability to stabilize the currency supply and interest rates, and continuing on the path that leads to further inflation. Now the United States admits it was undermined by the central bank's decision to print $600 billion in an apparent effort to keep the economy afloat, while at the same time the currency value diminishes.

Since the President will do nothing to solve the real problems crippling the United States such as the creation of real private sector jobs, reforming pension/union funds in government programs, cost of illegal aliens and maybe telling those puppet master internationalists like George Soros (who buys individuals within the government to create an agenda) to go take a walk, the President is really at a breaking point were there are very few options to choose from when it comes to our monetary and fiscal issues.

He’s not going to solve the real problems, and he is now finding out that when it comes to the United States’ monetary and fiscal policies, leaders in other countries, including those at the G-20 summit are not going to help our nation. They’ve really done all that they can since the financial collapse in 2008, and it is time for the United States to solve its own problems internally, even if it means for this President to finally stand up and say “no” to the people that are influencing him to make decisions which are deemed irresponsible.

Obama supports China's criticism of the United States' monetary policies

President Obama today stopped over in Jakarta, Indonesia, as part of his hopping all over South East Asia this week, to discuss monetary policy and growth at a summit for the G20 Finance Ministers, in which Indonesia is a member of.

What a surprise, since G20 has close relations with the European Union, and endorsing a world currency, which Obama endorses. According to Reuters, the President said at this summit with Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono:

"We have a lot of work  to do and one of the key steps is putting in place additional tools to encourage balanced and sustainable growth".

What exactly are these additional tools to encourage balanced and sustainable growth? Why in the hell is the President encourages the G20 System, when he cannot even get the Federal Reserve to control its own fiscal and monetary policies regarding taxation, monetary supply and interest rates, since he was elected into office?

In relation to that, China actually criticized the United States exactly for the things I just mentioned above, as they fear the more ignorant the United States is with relation to our monetary and fiscal policies, it would be more instrumental in becoming destructive to the global economy and leading to further inflation.

You would think that the President would take note of some of the advanced warnings laid out by China, and that the President would find a new ass to kick, maybe Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke or that sycophantic little yes weasel Tim Geithner. But instead, President Obama chooses to find an ass to kiss. He decides to support China's criticism of the United States.

"We want China to succeed and prosper, its good for the United States if China continues on that path of development that it is on"

Seriously, does President Obama realize that the $14 trillion national debt, which continues to grow at an accelerated basis, is mainly owned by China? Does the President also realize that my generation and all future generations are liable for this debt created by both he and former President Bush? Did President Obama ever take into consideration at the height of the financial meltdown in 2008 that it was wrong to endorse government intervention into the financial sector? Did the President think that adding trillions more in debt was the logical way to solve the problem of our already growing national debt crisis?

To sit over there in Jakarta, Indonesia and say he wants China to prosper is pretty disturbing. With no disrespect to China, this President has to be somewhat informative that China's commodities are greater than the United States, they've basically defeated us in every single regard, the major manufacturing and industrial factories have all been based out of China primarily because they have forced labor there and they have a grasp control of their own financial system. If you look at comparison with relation to jobs, competition in the business sector, educational system and our own government's financial stability, we're far below with relation to where China stands.

What really frustrated me recently in California involved this notion of 'creating green jobs' in California, which President Obama endorses. Here, the solar power manufacturing company Solyndra, recently closed one of its factories in an effort to save $60 million in annual expenses, laid off 40 full time employees and terminated contracts to 100 temporary workers. It should be noted that Solyndra received more than $530 million as part of a federal loan guarantee program and more than $1 billion in equity.

You may ask why Solyndra for example, is cutting back its operations and laying off its workers? It is because Solyndra and California, along with the rest of the United States, cannot keep up with the competition of manufacturing firms in China, who can do the same amount of work and defeat the cost of doing it in the United States.

While the President just looks at the positive of China's criticism of our monetary policies, maybe he should start getting serious for once in his tenure to do something to focus on creating real jobs within the United States, and working on a solution to control how the Federal Reserve is handling our monetary supply and how it effects the economy, both within the United States and globally.

I'm sure China has to be especially interested in the United States' future in the creation of jobs and our monetary and fiscal policies... because they expect to be repaid for bailing us out.