Remember 1989,June 4 - About 100,000 studens and workers were protesting for freedom and demorcracy at the beijing tiananmen square. 2500 people died according to the chinese red cross, and 7,000-10,000 people injured. After that, the US and EU asked for an arms embargo on China. Even today, searching information about this incident is restricted in China. This video is dedicated to the future generations who can use it as a refrence to learn their history.

Over the past several months, the government has given billions of dollars to banks and auto companies.

Someone suggested the government should have given the money to us, the US citizens. I agree with this concept. Why not give billions to us and let us pay off our mortgages and credit card debt? That would give the banks money that they could lend and also provide extra cash so we could buy new cars. Whether or not borrowers were negligent, I think it has been shown that Wall Street and the auto makers were far more negligent.

What do you think? As alwats, comments are always welcome.

Over the past several years I have warned about the heavy borrowing that our government pursued with Communist China. Now Communist China has become nervous as they see their investments in the US shrink in value. Their president mentioned his concern about the trillions of sollars in Treasury Bills that Communist China has purchased. T-Bills are, essentially, a loan to the US government.

These loans are what helped finance the questionable Iraq war. Chinese money has funded many a real estate project as well.

What would happen if Communist China decided to call their notes due and payable immediately?

As always, your comments are welcome.

I have made several trips to Taiwan and each time I am struck by the industriousness of the Taiwanese people. I am also always discovering how practical the Taiwanese are.

After seeing one of the schools I asked my host how many people were hired to clean the school. He looked at me in a quizzical manner and said the students of course. I was floored. The students do all the cleaning in the school. The classrooms, hallways and gymnasium, all cleaned daily by the students. What a wonderful concept. Not only do the schools save money on janitorial staff but the students learn a valuable lesson in responsibility.

All students in the Taiwan school system must wear uniforms. This includes the same style, black shoes. This saves the student’s parents money and eliminates the competition for more and more outlandish fashion.

As always, your comments are always welcome.

Eight years of unregulated and unmonitored Wall Street has led this country to the brink of total economic collapse.  Although I worry very much about our country leaning closer to socialism, the experts all agree that the action suggested last week by the President, Congress and the FED was necessary.

How did we get into this shape?  Very simply, greed.  The short sellers have no concern about what their actions did to this country’s economy.  The short sellers had everything to gain as the stock market fell in free-fall.  Gone unchecked, we would have lost our savings and our 401k’S as well as many other investments.

Your comments are always welcome.

The military dictatorship of Burma and China continues to kill and jail it’s own peaceful people for daring to protest human rights abuse.  When will evil such as this be stopped in the world?

Tonight I was watching the coverage of the tragedy in China on TV. While digging through the ruble of what used to be a school, A child was found still alive. Many parents rushed forward to see if it was their child. One man, who’s only child attends that school rushed towards the ambulance.

Though he could not see inside the ambulance, he was sure it was his son. One of the rescue workers grabbed him and hugged him. The weeping man hugged the worker and they embraced for a very long time. The rescue worker was comforting the man. The man clung to the worker because he was obviously in need of human touch to ease his grief. This scene choked me up and brought tears to my eyes.

What would any of us do if we were in that position? I can not begin to imagine the enormity of such grief and despair. My heart and prayers go out to the people of China who are trying to cope with such an enormous tragedy

Your comments are welcome..

We have all heard the unfortunate stories about the major rice shortage in the Asian world.  Rice suppliers in this country assure us there is no shortage of supply in the USA.  But …

Is it possible that because the price of rice on the world market has increased 150% since January, that US growers are exporting our rice to take advantage of the higher price?  Thus, creating a shortage in the US?  Would US rice growers do that to it’s own people?

Your comments are always welcome.