Thursday, September 22, 2005

Walking up the marble steps, walking past the red columns of the Judicial Yuan Gate

Walking up the marble steps, walking past the red columns of the Judicial Yuan Gate John Roberts saying ‘every time I go up the marble steps, I feel moved.” That’s the mission that he feels that he carries. Likewise, many Chinese officials felt moved as they walked under or toward the Judicial Gate of Red Columns. They also felt an urge of their calling to work for the people. Watching the John Roberts confirmation process by the Senate on the leader of the third branch of government, confirms the fact that America is still number one in the democratic structure. Many different senators have asked questions in order to learn from the man who will be in charge of America’s Supreme Court for 3 decades, long after the incumbent president and most of the senators leave the office. He is the man who will define and interpret the law as time goes by, as the constitution is a living thing that must be modified according to the times. Some excellent questions posed to Mr. John Roberts were to make sure that he is not too elite and too superior to lack feeling for the common people. That in itself is an advocacy for the deprived and echoes the virtue of American society. How to Rebuild the Administration’s Credibility and Confidence Level with the American People, and How to confront the criticism. Why didn’t the administration pre-position the infrastructure such as the levees? For 50 years, all the presidential administrations never did any improvement of the New Orleans levees. 8 months after the Democrats left office, 9/11 occurred. This was the aftermath of an unfinished anti-terror business by the Democrats. The subsidized political entrepreneur vs. the market entrepreneur. The subsidized entrepreneur stagnated, and was not efficient economically. Commodore Vanderbilt and the Steamship Industry Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794-1877, known as “Commodore Vanderbilt.” He was the classic market entrepreneur, the greatest anti-monopolist in the country. In the 1800’s, invention and creation was derived from a competitive western market. Competition bred the free market economy. Subsidies could not propel the steam of industry to go forward. America grew rapidly as an industrial power throughout the 1800s, and at end of the century, arrived at Chinese landscape when British already had indomitable force in Asia, and China. It is time after all these years, for the Chinese to be on equal plain to compete. Mail and national industries were controlled by the British, but since Ancient times, Zhou dynasty, mail transportation already was very developed. At 1750, China’s Iwo Company was the richest company on earth, but this was taken over by the British East India Company which converted Afghanistan’s poppy opium to get China’s silver dollars. Worse, opium usage endangered the national health and productivity. After the steamship, came the railroad. Vanderbilt sold his fleets and spent money on railroads. From 1860 to 1915, American exports carried on American ships dropped from 67% to 9%. Vanderbilt took steamship profits and built his New York Central Railroad over one thousand miles out to Chicago and other Midwestern cities. 1988, the Torch project was started by President Jiang Zemin. As an engineer, he understood the importance that industry’s synergy should be intertwined with the universities as the incubators. This is a model taken from Nationalist K T. Lee who was a student of Dr. Zhu, who was the father of China’s modernization planning. The south, the so called ‘deep south’, has a mixture of European, French, African, Mexicans, Cubans, Mulattos, and Vietnamese. A news reporter had a painting of a tree genealogy, is filled with all the mixture of races, something like 8, multi-ethnic culture. It must be rebuilt, with its heritage, character, and music. When students come to America, the university towns normally offer multi-ethnic foods which are not prevalent in other cultures. You have American food, British pub, Chinese, Cuban food, French, German, Greek food, Indian food, Italian food, Mexican food, Vietnamese food. Very cosmopolitan, rather than having all competing against each other, racial harmony needs to be promoted, one should not be preferred over the other.

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