So what do we know about Mr. Rogers and the neighborhood he hails from?  Hmm..  My Patriotic Spider Sense is tingling here...  Why do I feel like a Russian kulak?

"I live in Asia. It is really not that strange that I am selling out of the US dollar," he told The Daily Telegraph. "All other things being equal during the next six months, that's the way I will go. But if the Swiss franc goes through the roof, I probably won't put money into the Swiss franc."

I get nervous when I see someone associated with George Soros (and with his kind of financial clout) bashing the US economy, no matter what their political affiliation.  So, I started trapsing around the World Wide Web and found that the old adage is true:  Success breeds money and fools...  Simply Google "Jim Rogers on Russia" and read the email exchange between Rogers and a young Russian student named Dmitri.  That should enlighten you regarding Mr. Rogers' level of common decency.  Obviously, money cannot buy class.  But, that's not what bothers me.

"I do not want to sell Chinese stocks. I want to own them forever and I want my [four year-old] daughter to own them."

At what point does a person stop being an American and become a full time capitalist, bent on making money, no matter what?  I guess when you live in Asia?  What wouldn't you sell to make a buck, Jim?  When is it ever OK to have that kind of business sense (he is good at it) and take it to the shores of our enemies?  Should we invest in China, no matter what, simply because there's money to be made there?  Should the pursuit of the all-mighty dollar (or yuan) trump everything, always?

There are globalists, and then there's people like this guy.  He looks at America as a bad investment, rather than the "last, best hope of Earth."  Isn't our society much more meaningful than whether you are long or short on it?  Bah!  What does he care, he has his money, and by the time the Chinese come to reposess our couch, he'll be long gone.  I hope he can take it with him, since it's so important.

So, what could his motives be?

The US economy is undoubtedly in recession," he said. "Many parts of industry are actually in a state worse than recession. If it were not for [Federal Reserve Governor Ben] Bernanke putting huge amounts of money into the market, the stock market would probably be down much more than it is."

That may be true, but is it merely a question of the condition of our market and where he can make the most money?  If America is broken, (and it is, because of men like him) is it beneath him to try to fix it?  At what point will the globalists realize that they have created this mess we're in with their inane experimentations that created a services based society, raiding corporations and selling off our national treasure to the highest foreign bidder, or the lowest cost outsource of labor?

In the end, I don't care if they're right or wrong about globalization and the benefits they think it has for us all.  I'm smarter than that, and I can see past the end of my nose:  When America falls (as it will when they ship the last manufacturing job to China), there will no longer BE an America to protect them from the socialist locusts that will consume them and all their wealth.  In the end, we're all just a bunch of kulaks that stand in the way of "progress."  Even aristocrats like him.