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.
(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."
Hayward was born and raised in China. Now as an American citizen, she says she wishes more people would appreciate the opportunities the U.S. affords them.
Wang Hui was a movie actress in Chinabefore marrying Hayward and moving to theUnited States just less than 20 years ago.Wang Hui said, “The biggest problem I see happening over here is a lot of people take advantage of this good life here. A lot of particularly young people that can work don’t want to work, so they use the system and get free this, free that, a lot of free things, and in China you definitely can not do that.”
Al Hayward says "share and share alike" isn't the answer. "It didn't work in Russia. It didn't work in Eastern Europe. It didn't work in Mainland China. And it won't work in America," Hayward said. "Communism rewards only those people in government, and forces the rest to share their pay with those that did less and too often nothing. 'They pretended to pay us, and we pretended to work. And we all suffered,' a man told me, who once lived under Communist control in Eastern Europe."
"Obama scares me. Too many it seems are buying his 'more money for less work for all' campaign. The same propaganda lies used by the Communists and Adolf Hitler to take over nations and control of their people."
Hayward helped Oregon get its Bottle Bill and full-serve gas, now he hascreated a concept for a massive hotel/casino in China that will accommodate200k people while appearing somewhat like a natural island on the exterior.Al Hayward has been around the world and back again. He found a metaphor for life in a chilling experience he had on Mt Everest, where he says he came to a crossroads and made the right choice.
“I had a film opportunity,” Hayward recalls, “and was doing a film on Mt Everest when I lost my climbing partner; and so, he got in trouble and I took over my backpack from the Sherpa guide, and then I came on back off of Mt Everest alone. Crossed one glacier without ropes, that was a little scary.”
“I came down to a fork in the trail, one of them led to China, and one led back to the American base camp. China owns probably half of Mt Everest. They call it Kuma lama (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng), and so I had a decision: either to go on to ‘communist China’ or come back to the American camp. And fortunately, I guessed right, and came back to the American camp.”
“But I see America in this coming election at the same crossroads. They’ve got to decide: do we continue to go down this slippery slope, more socialism, more welfare, less work, more pay, promises that can’t be kept? Or, do we buckle down and just work more and get more? That’s what will bring us back, that’s in essence why I’m here today and why I felt strongly that it was time to stand up and say something regardless of the personal consequences.”
The crossroads are being faced by each individual voter, and Al Hayward says he hopes to prevent Americans from taking a trail toward socialism, and what he calls, a road to revolution.
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