I was just thinking the other day about this century old saying.
According to a PBS program about the creation of the Union Pacific railroad -the saying " Chinaman’s Chance " came about because of the high number of Chinese laborers that died as they were hoisted down a canyon via rope to stick huge bundles of TNT into holes and cracks to blast away.
There were no caps back then,so they basically had to light a wick,and sometimes the men couldn’t haul them back up fast enough.
1 out of every 4 Chinese men usually got blown up. Hence the phrase meaning such lousy chances.
The Chinese had it tough in the West back then.
Anyways, I’m watching TV and am overwhelmed by the gross amount of XMas sales comercials. Especially ones for electronics.
IPODS, Flat Screens, Plasmas, Laptops, Garmin GPS, Sony Playstation,XBoxes…etc,etc.
Over 70% of these goods are made in China,Taiwan,Malaysia and Japan, but mostly China.
Is it just me,or is China making out like a bandit!
They embargo every US good that tries to get there. Chinese people do not buy anything American,except capitalizing on our culture.
We hardly have any tariffs on their exports to the US.
They’re heavily into Oil, and now even a thriving Space program as well as a scary ass Nuclear Weapons program.
They have such huge holdings both commerical and financial in the US.
My brother who’s a VP at Deutsche Bank told me that if China pulled out just 60% of there money invested in the US they could just about cripple our economy!
It looks like the meaning of " A Chinaman’s Chance" has evolved to better odds nowadays.
I decided that this Christmas I’m going to try to buy stuff made in the USA. Not so much as a boycott, but, we need the help ; )
