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Salem-News.com (Oct-27-2008 07:00)

China Expert Hayward Warns Against Obama’s ‘Socialist’ Plan For America (VIDEO)

Bonnie King Salem-News.com

An interview with Al Hayward, 25-year China expert, who says his opinions about Obama won’t be popular but promises of less work – more money have failed before.

A U.S. trade expert with 25 years of experience working with China and other Communist nations, says Capitalism is taking over in the east, and an Obama Presidency would signal a shift from traditional U.S. policies to a Socialist agenda.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) – Al Hayward, a 25-year Chinese trade expert, says “you can drown by tipping the canoe too far in either direction”, and he is worried that what he calls Barack Obama’s “socialistic promises” are tipping this country too far toward communism.

China Trade Expert Al Hayward“What bothers me very much is the fact that Obama’s campaign is based on ‘do less, work less, get more’, and the reality of this is it doesn’t work that way,” Hayward said.

Al Hayward has lived, worked, and done business in mainland China and other communist countries for decades, and he is currently working on a 20 billion dollar “City of Tomorrow” project near Macau.

This weekend as he and the woman he married nearly 20 years ago, Wang Hui, strolled through the streets of Portland’s China town, Al Hayward shared his views with us on the “wrong direction” he sees the U.S. moving in.

“I’ve lived under 15 presidents and voted for 8,” Hayward said. “During the great depression the slogan was, ‘An honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work’, I haven’t heard that in this country for 50 years. We’ve been given promises, ‘Elect me and you get more and do less,’ ‘Work less hours and get more pay’. It doesn’t work that way. If you want more, the way I was taught, the way we taught our children, you want more, work more.”

“China’s great economy boom, as exhibited during the ’08 Olympics and hundreds of billions in trade surpluses came about when she adopted American capitalist policies of, “work more-get more” and became a world industrial powerhouse.”

“I fear that under Obama’s plan, America is in great danger of becoming more Communist than Red China is today if in fact it hasn’t already happened.”

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