@laotou: Ranting about the US and all it's perversions is, I guess, extremely satisfying for you. I know you LOVE the USA, it shows in the way you present your perception of the USA. If doing this gives you a good feeling, go for it.

I just would appreciate you recognize there are facts that exist and no matter how many words you spew those facts will not change. No matter how much you love the USA, no matter how much you inflate your resume, no matter how you twist and rearrange your perceptions, no matter how much you are a victim or no matter how much you thump your chest, some facts continue to exist.

I am not impressed with your debate skills. I doubt you have serious negotiation skills, other than wearing down the other guy. Frankly, I would avoid doing business with you as we would never get to the making money part. What ever business you are doing, I can find somebody less arrogant to make money with. I suspect others react to you in the same way. Which, I suppose is why you have time to write 2200+ word forum posts. You are not unique here in China or in the US.

@laotou: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is a US law, signed by Jimmy Carter in 1977. The OCED Convention was signed 20 years AFTER the US law took effect. The US FCPA addresses accounting transparency and prohibits US citizens from bribing or otherwise violating laws of other countries.

The US FCPA was amended in 1998 to implement the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.

You said "but FCPA is NOT a law." That is an incorrect statement. Your need to rant on and on blinds you to state a provable fact does not exist. What kind of logic are you operating on? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act

Your perceptions of accounting, corporate management, and the US political environment seem to me to be consistent with that of an envious outsider who only imagines what is going on and is bitter because he is not included in sharing the imagined spoils. Sorry dude, some of us got it and to get rich is glorious!

Be advised I do not represent anyone but myself. I did not fall out of some privileged family with famous relatives. All I got, or had, I got myself. Also be aware my first job was as a farm worker, a picker. That experience prompted me to obtain an education and be the first in my family to get a university education. It also motivated me to bust my ass at being the best I could be. Along the way I learned life is a bitch and I needed to earn respect by performing. I had no time to whine about being a victim.

I am sorry for all the unfairness you have faced. All that corruption and misery, so sad. You do live in a miserable world.

You can deride me all you like but my goal is always truth, honesty and honor. My old Dad said you come into life naked then go out in a box and in between you only have your word and your honor, the rest is crap.

Yes, I am delusional. Heh, heh, I just looked at my bank accounts, I keep a spreadsheet of them, and I can live with delusion.

@laotou:

1. USA IS A REPUBLIC. The guys that wrote the Constitution intended it be so. Words have definitions regardless of one's perspective. Read the 'Federalist Papers.' Free kindle version on amazon.com. You can, if interested also get the 'Anti-Federalist Papers if your reading tastes are as weird as mine.

The multi-party system is a legacy of US roots in the English system. In California, there usually a choice of a dozen or more candidates for president each a member of separate party.

Yes the US electoral system is 'rather chaotic' and this is by design. From my perspective this is more desirable than a system that demands harmony and total subservience. Checks and balances tend to prevent tyranny and splits the nexus of power.

2. ILLEGAL FOREIGN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is a US law, signed by Jimmy Carter in 1977. Has two main provisions; 1) addresses the bribery of foreign officials and 2) addresses transparency in accounting as related to requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. As a Corporate Controller, I have sat through several tedious day long seminars on the FCPA. I am unaware of how the FCPA relates to political campaign contributions.

The FCPA attempts to control the actions of US citizens in foreign counties by making violations of foreign laws punishable under US law. As to the accountancy provisions, the FCPA removed intent as a requirement for conviction resulting in a simple addition error or typo being punishable. This was amended out of the law.

The rest of your post on this item is just noise. What you characterize as illegal is not. This is the way politics in the US is financed, like it or not. I don't like it but I have no alternative suggestions.

@laotou: Please try to discern what a law is about and what is legal or illegal and rant intelligently.

3. RETIREMENT: I strongly you take some time to get information as to how US Social Security works. The only way your "retirement benefits will be reduced between 10-28% from" what I get is if the law is dramatically changed in a way not even being considered today. All conversations about reducing benefits, means testing, would apply any changes to persons in their 40's and younger. You are safe.

The rest of your post on this item is babble. Your claim of being deceived has merit if the law has been changed. As this is not the case, as you now admit, it is your ignorance of the law and your desire to be a victim that drives you to babble nonsense.

As for my living in the US, I was living independently in my own apartment and getting along fine on my Social Security. Granted I am disabled and have limited mobility and therefore have less need to spend. Truth is, I can get along fine with no government money at all but I legally take every penny I can. With all you eminent experience, knowledge and skills, I hope you prepared for your retirement.

I will out you for your non-truths as they are, from my perspective silly and uninformed. You repeat them in your rants as fact and sir, they are not.

@Haali, @Napoleon: I agree with both of you. The problems and trials of the US have no place on these forums. Consistent with that, this is no place to launch repeated attacks on MY country using falsehoods buried in difficult to read bursts of keyboard diarrhea replete with obnoxious noise and stench.

Then the gutless, or as we Americans more likely say, the ball-less, OP reaffirms his "love" and, as the OP, calls for deletion of this thread so his 1800+ word rant can stand without response.

Until this thread I have respected laotou's opinion but I grow weary of his play, to you folks not prone to respect or admire the US, of his tactic of draping himself in the American flag whilst spouting anti-US false talking points.

BTW, despite the OP's words, burning the US flag is not illegal. It is illegal for me to burn your US flag but not for me to burn my US flag. In fact, the proper way to dispose of an American flag is burning.

Using the correct address will improve delivery in China. Face it, the average Chinese postal worker will make about as much sense of an address in English as an US, Canadian or Brit postal worker will be able to read an address in Hanzi.

I had very very good success with this format:

Jiang Dong Si Ji Gong Yu, Apt 1708
Beijing Lu, Panlong District, 650224
Kunming, Yunnan, P.R. China
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650224
中国云南省昆明市盘龙区北京路江东四季公寓1708 室
电话：1866XXXXX4

Used it for years and never lost a package (I don't live there anymore :-) )

I did a Word doc and emailed to my sons, they used it to make labels to affix to the package.