Obama is making the Americans work for China!

[gaelic cowboy]

i know all about rare-earths, and have appreciated their economic significance for some years, i was trained as a geologist after all, i am merely questioning the rather tenuous supposition that those; "shout endlessly about removing dependence on unstable areas of middle east instead have us be dependent on one of the fastest growing aggressive powers in the world.".........?

It's both sides obviously Liberal/Conservative an Left/Right there all guilty of being short sighted.

The pro-enviroment side would have us dependent through the materials to produce renewable energy and the drill baby drill side would still have us dependent through conversion of the oil to electricity.

An important U.S. high-tech manufacturer is shutting down its American operations, laying off hundreds of workers and moving sophisticated equipment now being used to make critical parts for smart bombs to the People's Republic of China [PRC], Insight has learned.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433243/posts

Unbelievable think about what the "West" is collectively doing to itself here on the one side we have politicians who tell us to move up the value ladder to compete with China but on the other side the very equipment we would need to add value will be tightly controlled by China.



@ Furunculus I changed the start of my earlier post felt it was not necessary to give the impression of a personal attack on you.