Article

2009-09-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

Tom Friedman Certainly Has His Drawbacks

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Beavis 2009-09-09 13:22|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Prof. Volokh:

Let me just say for the record that this is a monstrous column. When faced with American public defection from elite-preferred outcomes on certain policy issues that involve many difficult tradeoffs of the kind that democracies, with much jostling and argument, are supposed to work out among many different groups, Friedman extols the example of ... China's political system, because it's both enlightened and autocratic? Who among us knew?

Posted by Mike 2009-09-09 15:01|| 2009-09-09 15:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Who among us knew?

Certainly not the Chinese people. There are several hundred protests in China every day! These are generally protests against specific corrupt officials and criminal actors protected but the government.

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-09-09 15:23|| 2009-09-09 15:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Who would have thought a New York Socia1ist plutocrat would have more in common with the Beijing Communist plutocracy than the proles under them? Really.

Posted by ed 2009-09-09 17:28|| 2009-09-09 17:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I invite Mr. Friedman to live in Beijing. He can write for the Beijing Times.

Posted by Steve White 2009-09-09 18:16|| 2009-09-09 18:16|| Front Page Top

#5 But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages

So, he's against all labor laws and any type of pollution controls. Interesting view for a lefty.

Posted by DMFD 2009-09-09 19:43|| 2009-09-09 19:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Speaking of pollution, when Microsoft Xbox engineers from Redmond talk about visiting the manufacturing facility in China, they refer to it as "going to Mordor". Funny how "workers paradise" so frequently means "hell hole".

Posted by DMFD 2009-09-09 19:45|| 2009-09-09 19:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I invite Mr. Friedman to live in Beijing. He can write for the Beijing Times.

Expats with parity lifestyle cost-of-living contracts can live very well in Beijing, Dr. Steve.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-09-09 23:51|| 2009-09-09 23:51|| Front Page Top

23:59 JosephMendiola
23:59 Skidmark
23:51 trailing wife
23:48 trailing wife
23:45 trailing wife
23:45 Sherry
23:38 trailing wife
23:29 SteveS
23:25 SteveS
23:17 3dc
23:02 logi_cal
22:58 logi_cal
22:46 Redneck Jim
22:42 Redneck Jim
22:31 Redneck Jim
22:22 DarthVader
22:20 Barbara Skolaut
22:01 swksvolFF
22:00 Rambler in Virginia
21:56 Rambler in Virginia
21:45 James
21:41 JosephMendiola
21:34 Barbara Skolaut
21:33 Anonymoose