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[quote user="greyhounds"]We're way off topic here.  But I do work with several people who immigrated from China.  These immigrants aren't "The Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shore" as inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.  They're highly educated competent people.  They were chosen for employment by a world class company because they were identified as the best candidate after an extensive selection process.   They're raising their children as US citizens and we're fortunate that they're here. People of this caliber didn't leave their homes and families because things were better in China.  We know there are all kinds of problems in China.  But that doesn't mean that a Chinese company shouldn't buy a US company.  If it's mutually beneficial for both the US and China to move US produced pork to China, just haul the freight. I cannot think of a better outcome.  The Chinese get high quality safe food.  The US producers get needed money.  And the US railroads get some more freight to haul.  Why does anyone have a problem with this?[/quote] I agree with all of that, but it has absolutely nothing to do with any point I have made in this thread.  Your response makes it seem that you believe that my questioning of this deal amounts to bigotry and a racial prejudice against the Chinese.  I never said nor implied that a Chinese company should not buy an American company.  I have not even said anything whatsoever that would indicate that I oppose the deal or any part of it.  If I believed that, I would come right out and say it.  Perhaps you are interpreting my comments and questions as innuendo meaning that I oppose the deal.  A lot of people use innuendo to avoid coming right out and saying what they mean.  I don't do that.  All I have done here is pose questions about how the deal will play out in terms of market economics.  There are dozens of articles on the Internet that ask the same type of questions and search for the same answers.  Many of those articles talk about how people are missing this point or that point in their analysis.  Everybody is asking what the deal “means.”      You brought up the topic of the deal and the potential it has for increasing rail traffic.  My general conclusion (if anybody took the time to understand it) is that rail traffic will be increased even further than what is obvious on the surface.  And I have made an effort to explain it in the clearest terms possible.  It has nothing to do with hating the Chinese.
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