Commerce Secretary: Americans ‘Need to Pay’ for Chinese Emissions

With the U.S. secretaries of energy and commerce in China this week, much of the attention focused on the standoff over emissions reductions or small breakthroughs in clean-tech cooperation.

But yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions. From Reuters:

“It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

"OMG! WTF! Now we have to pay for losing our jobs. Locke says their pollutuion is our fault for increasing the demand for their product, okay I have a solution. Decrease the demand for their products...........................by producing them here like we used to you f#$%ing morons! If you want China, India, and Mexico to stop polluting, then stop trying to jumpstart their f#$%ing economies! Globalization only works in sci-fi movies, and even in those it's usually a bad idea. When are we finally gonna get a politician who says, hey maybe we should get America straightened out before we solve the worlds problems? Please write to your Congressional reps, tell them we want American jobs, we want American products, and we want American prosperity!"

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