Posted on 08/05/2019 10:08:20 AM PDT by LRoggy
At work (investment manager) and noticed a CNBC blurb that China is now NOT BUYING our Ag products.
It's time to send a message.
Time to go to parking lots and show our disdain for those thieves.
Steve Ballmer, co-founder of Microsoft, made remarks a while back that "90% of Chinese companies use Microsoft products and only 1% pay for it".
https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/china-is-ripping-off-microsoft-to-the-tune-of-10b
That's THEFT. That's STEALING.
And it's time to use that statement, because it gives cover.
Make a poster with that quote. Make a bed sheet with that quote.
We need a movement on social media to organize multiple rallies with those signs.
Don't focus on logic, focus on emotion. Call the Chinese out for who they are . . THIEVES. Fentanyl Murderers. Baby Killers. Environmental Assassins.
Time to turn Alinsky on them too, not just the Dems.
The Chinese could care less how many people go to some parking lot? I will just not buy their junk. That is the ONLY way to hurt them.
Don’t buy chinese junk!
Now it's nearly impossible to avoid buying Chinese-made stuff.
A demonstration? Why not roll out the comfy chair?
A better approach is just keep ratcheting up the tariffs until the trade deficit falls to zero. If China wants to quit buying US agg products, fine, up goes more tariffs.
Tariffs don’t require individuals to act against their best interests when their immediate best interests diverge from national interests.
Tariffs don’t care whether China buys from us or not. They make it more and more expensive for China to sell into our market.
Tariffs can be imposed gradually, minimizing market impacts.
That’s kind of the point, to get people on their way to the stores to let them know to check the labels.
Really?
You posted a vanity in Breaking News?
Sorry, was trying to get this up quickly. Mods can change to the appropriate heading. Certainly the Agriculture decision by China was breaking as I wrote this.
They changed it for you. Out of Breaking. Into Chat.
I don't know how to make a bed sheet.
I assume there is some textile - looming process.
I have been trying to NOT buy anything made in China for the past 6 months. The problem is that sometimes there is no other choice. For example, most power tools(Milwaukee cordless drill). All the other major brands: Porter Cable, Rigid, Dewalt, were all made in China. At least at Home Depot.
However, I just bought my first battery operated outdoor tool. A Stihl hedge trimmer. Made in Austria. Even the battery was made in Germany. This is the first non gasoline outdoor power tool. I would highly recommend it. I bought the upgrade battery. I trimmed every bush in the yard and the battery still had available charge left after 2+ hours of use.
With clothes you can now find many items not made in China.
My most recent purchases were made in Vietnam(Wrangler cargo shorts), Dominican Republic(Hanes underware), Mexico(Wrangler jeans) and USA(white socks).
I went to my local lumber yard. I bought two 1x8’s PVC boards to replace some fascia on my house. The boards were made in the USA. The screws came from Taiwan. The caulk came from the Mexico.
I don’t care if the Chinese rip off Microsoft.
In fact I am glad to hear that they are!
Microsoft ripped me off for many years until I dumped them and went to Linux. I have not regretted it ever!
It was time 15 and 20 years ago. Most Dems have figured out how to actually sell IP to the Chinese. Billy Clinton and Bernie Schwartz from LORAL started the ball rolling in 1992.
YUP..!!
Missing the point. EVERYONE knows who Microsoft is and will understand the reference. Make it something else if you want.
It’s easy:
1) Buy a sheet
2) Paint a slogan on it
3) Head to the parking lots
Well... that’s not making a sheet.
That’s using a sheet.
I was just thinking that I need a shirt that says “If it’s made in China, I don’t need it.”
Every product needs to be well marked with the flag of the country it is imported from.
A previous thread had a story about how the Government run schools in China are teaching kids that Christianity is evil and they need to turn in their parents if they are Christians.
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