Posted on 08/21/2007 5:31:03 AM PDT by shortstop
Thanks for a great post!
It really is time to have a full boycott on all Chinese goods - they are not our friends and knowingly produce a lot of worthless garbage that is intended to harm Americans.
Buy American!
Maybe parents will start to think outside the box and buy their kids something for Christmas that they haven't already seen on TV.
Hey, it could happen!
Trust me that quality controls in Japan are equal or better than what we have here. In fact, a lot of the American trade claims were because Japanese QC was too strict.
Yes, some quality stuff is produced in China, but only because they have people of integrity (usually from Taiwan, Japan, Singapore or event the U.S.A.) who watch their production facilities like a hawk.
If you aren't sure you can tell the difference, it is best to avoid MADE IN CHINA altogether. Our company does, except for a limited list of products which aren't available elsewhere.
The government made you buy cheap Chinese imports! LoL!
You are missing the point if you go to the supermarket and buy food you don’t know where the ingredients came from you chicken and beef can come from China and the store don’t have to tell you!
also if you are low middle class etc those places like K mark or others is where folks could get more for their family dollar.
So they can afford Health or Car insurance, house payment etc.
Years ago in those stores it did not sell products from China
There is more in this world than the rich Fiat!
Peanut oil.
You all realize that China is doing to us what we did to Britain in the 19th Century.
Charles Dickens was mad as hell when he came to this country and found all the counterfeit copies of his books.
And some of the most unsafe meat from the Chicago stockyards was exported to Europe before “The Jungle” came out.
The Japanese weren't commies.
If we allow our government to place a burden on USA manufacturers and let importers dump non regulated products on our shores how the hell can we compete?
Wow, VERY good points!
Thank you. Now if we could only get our government on board!
You are correct, I am absolutely missing your point.
What is your recommended fix? Restrict Chinese imports? Raise Tariffs?
You mean the urban legend/revolutionary manifesto issued by the Communist Upton Sinclair? It's amazing how much damage an imaginative left wing rabble rouser can do almost a century after he publishes a fictional screed.
To make sure things that come into this country is up to our standard in quality control.
THERE IS NO QUALITY CONTROL!
Also all products and food should reveal anything that is outside the US including butcher meats, ingredients and where manufactured.
There is more but this should do for now!
Wondering where our sodas and Juices are produced China or Mexico.
I read something interesting in Mexico they make Coke Cola with Sugar and not corn syrup taste like the old time coke.
http://store.drsoda.com/mexicancoke.html
American Companies in China
http://www.cbw.com/business/usco-beijing/index.html
I see this mantra a lot here on FR, and it looks more and more like a red herring. Historically, is there any basis for this policy? Have we ever overthrown a totalitarian regime by exporting capitalism? I don't believe there is a single example. Furthermore, how long does this process take? We have been "free-trading" with the ChiComs for 30 years; are they any less totalitarian statists for it?
I think that free trade with dishonest brokers and dictators is a costly experiment that has failed.
Can’t read it. The writing is to small!
Strangling Imperial Japan's oil supplies in the Pacific encouraged their decision to attack Pearl Harbor.
Trading with Japan turned them into a more pro-American western country than California is.
Strangling the Weimar Republic economically created the popular Nationalist Socialism that nearly destroyed the world.
Trading with West Germany eventually helped make the western front against USSR strong, and led to re-unification as a pacified ally.
How about the British slapping punitive restrictions on their colonies? Did that results in free and fair trade?
Or do you think we should rededploy Petreaus to Shanghai?
And speaking of red herrings....why does there have to be an example in history anyway? Was there an example of of an incandescent bulb before it was invented? Of radio before the wireless set? Of excise taxes before there was trade?
Trust me, either it was made in China or Mexico.
:p
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