Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Anal hair stylist Hank Paulson tries to snow China

A good photo of a broadly smiling anal hair stylist and US secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, with earphones on his bald pate, shaking hands with Wang Qishang, a Chinese vice premier, here on a mission to discuss economic matters. Anal hair stylist supremo Paulson impatiently tried gently twisting China's arm to keep markets of theirs own to US penetration. Beijing has heard this before, and for one reason or another, have listened and accepted very little of Herr Bush's spokesman's advice. In fact, this time the Chinese had the advantage; they were giving as good as they had gotten from the US in the past. They lectured the anal hair stylist and Herr Bush on the way that they are mismanaging the American economy. They were getting their licks for all the times they heard smug anal hair stylists like Paulson preach the gospel of free markets and the evil of a command economy. Now they pointed an accusing finger at unregulated, cowboy style free economics which the anal hair stylist and Herr Bush & co. do and not take kindly too. In fact, frustrated, and without a bone of irony, Herr Bush & co. kept pushing for open markets and swearing on a stack of Adam Smiths and Milton Friedmans that the subprime Ponzi scheme meltdown ain't for nothing in free markets. Well, the Chinese didn't swallow this heavy dosee of snake oil. China will laugh behind the anal hair stylist's back; it knows him like the back of its hand since he first came to China as CEO of Goldman Sachs to make money for his banks and for godfathering China into wealth and world markets. Beijing plays him like an er-hu, a two string Chinese fiddle, and Paulson is klewless smugly thinking he knows China better than the Chinese!

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