get off your jihad

music blog what? petrov has had a less than thriller day. so what better way to feel better than to bitch!?!?!

there is nothing more fun in America than blaming someone else for your problems. unless you have been living in a blithering blackhole you should know that China is Congress' and "patriotic" American's favorite scapegoat.

Congress is itching to force a devaluation of the yuan and is also ready to slap something like a 25% tariff on all Chinese imports. (Nothing says thanks for giving us cheap products like making Americans pay 25% more for them.) If you want to put on tariffs because of environmental problems, fine, Petrov is all for the environment, but don't go through that shit around because your citizens can't belly up and pay 10 cents more for a product from a country that holds itself to a slightly higher (acceptable?) standard. Further, just because your citizens can't seem to keep their greedy paws out of the cookie jar (read as dumbf*cks that would rather buy their new $400 lcd 32" no name tv than put their money in an high interest savings account or god forbid a retirement fund).

Do you hate China because of their large trade surplus with the US? Do you hate China because they roofy your children with roofy-powdered toys? (Ok, maybe the later one is a fair call.... but still that "quality" issue has been going on for sometime now, Petrov doesn't see anyone not buying from china because they are concerned). Anyway, it pisses petrov off. He's an economist and feels these issues are better dealt in more constructive ways (teaching high schoolers to live on a budjet....not that god's word created the human race 4,000 years ago and evolution is just a "theory"). Get the idea?

Read this article if you would like to dispel some of your firmly held patriotic beliefs.