Bloomberg: Congress members ‘can’t read,’ ‘don’t have passports,’ may start trade war

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/bloomberg-congress-cant-read/

By Daniel Tencer
Saturday, November 6th, 2010 -- 7:27 pm

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has set his sights on what he -- and many others -- see as the provincial, insular nature of American politics, and he has unkind words for the country's current crop of legislators.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal carried out during a trip to Hong Kong, Bloomberg warned that US Congress members' ignorance of the outside world could end up harming the US and dragging the country into a trade war.

“If you look at the US, you look at who we’re electing to Congress, to the Senate — they can’t read,” he said. “I’ll bet you a bunch of these people don’t have passports. We’re about to start a trade war with China if we’re not careful here ... only because nobody knows where China is. Nobody knows what China is.”

[Xipe Totec]

1. I think we should encourage them to find out where China is

Encourage them to just keep digging.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Well it will be fun... and I agree

passports are for wussies!

[AleksS]

3. But you would only need a passport

But you would only need a passport if you wanted to go to a country that wasn't America. Why would you want to go anywhere that's not America? That sounds vaguely un-American! It seems he's implying there's something outside America that you can't get in America. He must be a socialist.

[oneshooter]

5. "I’ll bet you a bunch of these people don’t have passports. "

I have been around the world three times, and have never had a passport.

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[HereSince1628]

4. Feingold was one of the few to read the PATRIOT ACT

before voting.

Too bad Bloomberg didn't send some support to a literate senator.

[iamtechus]

6. The "trade war" is over. We lost.

There's not much, except weapons, that anyone wants. We have nothing to wage trade war with.

[Historic NY]

7. Ignorance of the world & what makes America a leader in is dangerous...

especially what they open their pieholes. We got a Senator now up in Canada saying we should openly confront China, bomb Iran first...sure sounds like his brain is up his ass.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4604245

[Steve20]

8. re

I dont recall any GOP members addressing China's currency manipulation, wish they did. Bloomberg is a globalist who supports unlimited free trade.

[malaise]

9. Oops I posted a dupe

Rec

[sendero]

10. A trade war with China..

... might hurt big business but it wouldnd't hurt the country as a whole that much.

They have been playing with their currency long enough.

[marmar]

11. While he might be right about some members of Congress, Bloomberg is a free-trade neolib asshat

He can go f**k himself.