did you just said that we totally don't need it (agriculture or manifacturing)?...so there must be a reason they buy it from us...why can't they grow they own?...apparently some products are better if they are manifactured here...And, I wonder how many people would prefer to drink quality enhanced Chinese wine to Californian one?
I guess on upper West Side Manhattan or on San Fransico agriculture is a sort of anti-culture. Who needs it? Only Chinese.
Germany is cutting corparate tax...why?-manufacturing job creation, which is frown uppon by elitists in NY so used to mutual back rubbing service oriented economy..;-)
btw, Palm Beach county is not exactly the Bronx of Florida..($) ($) ($)

Interesting Globalization discussion... :-(
In my opinion, Fox News doesn't have any affiliation with the Republican party. They have some conservative commentators (Beck and Hannity primarily), other than that - it is business as usual - do whatever it takes to attract more viewers...

As far as havenots from the rest of the Manhattan state of mind, those MP3 payer afffictionados are enjoyng music played on quality hardware manufactured by chinese teens yet developed and designed by whooping 35 thousnad american grown geeks. Btw Kawai and Yamaha copied American build pianos, it took them a century to destroy their peers. Japanese cars were based on achivements of the American auto industry, it took them less than 30 to turn the table there too. Today's Chinese automakers are hiring American desgners and it may take them only 10 years to destroy our heavy subsidized GM. Yet we would gladly accept this blessing, since we can still service those chinese clanckers.
in other word, everything that's manufactured today in China have been developed in first world countries if they will develop and manufacture Tomorrow, what will we service then considering manufacturing and agriculture are already gone?

2. Glen Beck = Keith Olbermann
Except that Glenn Beck is extremely funny and loves America,
and Kejth Olbermann is extremely unfunny and repulsive troll who hates America.
I watch Glenn Beck at least 3-4 days a week at the gym - his shows are absolutely hysterical! ( And it helps me go through my stairmaster torture:-) ). And he is right to the point. There is nothing about his criticism about Obama administration and all the RINOs like Lindsey Graham/McCains
that is wrong. Everything he is saying is , sadly, true.

Also somebody mention about 70,000 gay parade that FOX did not spend much time talking about.
How about 2 million tax-payers protest in Washington DC that your unbiased/balanced CNN/NPR never talked about?
You have to be living on the moon to think that CNN is not an Obama outlet. :-|

Ironically, I used to like Glenn Beck a lot more when he was on CNN. These days у меня от него болит голова. To me he is very far from funny, "crazy and hysterical" - maybe.
At the end of the day, he is just trying to become a second Rush Limbaugh and create his dedicated followers - good marketing strategy, has nothing to do with his political views...

Maria, the number of people in any march is a subject of great debate.. 2mln number was clearly outlandish.
In any case, argument of "pissing on the floor is better then shitting on the floor" is kinda silly.

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"How about 2 million tax-payers protest in Washington DC that your unbiased/balanced CNN/NPR never talked about"
- this is inaccurate.
It was talked about all the time on both of those networks at length.
Other networks commented on AMOUNT of coverage to their viewers who did not watch that coverage.
I watch intentionally equal amounts of CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and on radio intentionally rotate stations every day.
As far as web or printed publications, it is also important to have equal amounts - now I have tabs open for Drudge, WSJ, BBC, and Huff Post.

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look at the CNN coverage of the Teaparties...tell me how "unbiased" it is...

nobody said it was unbiased.
Everybody is biased. Every channel, every commentator.
Was was stated inaccurately is that they didn't cover it at all - they did.

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