Posted on 08/15/2007 6:31:17 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Yep! My buddy just got back. RPGs missle, ammo, the lot.
“I went out this evening to buy a spray nozzle for my garden hose at Big Lots,”
Maybe you won’t make the mistake of ever shopping there again. It is worse than Wal-Mart!
It’s almost like fighting a proxy war like we did for years with Russia. The difference is that we weren’t paying Russia to fight it.
Give the man a cigar!
a real parent is having more and more trouble finding toys that are NOT made in china.
Legos appear to be still made in europe (denmark and e. europe, though I may be wrong).
Are there other major brands that are absolutely not made in china?
“But much of it too is just union hype. The unions that chased those jobs overseas in the first place.”
I doubt the unions expect to ever see these jobs here again. A more likely scenario (besides this quietly going away) is for overseas manufacture to move to countries with names other than China.
The US simply cannot compete domestically with cost of goods in some asian countries and India. They are orders of magnitude cheaper, not some small %.
Definitely better to buy from Europe. I grew up poor so I didn’t have a lot of toys and I’m starting to think that it was a good thing.
Probably 80% of the jobs we lost in my part of michigan over the last 20 years were non union jobs.
“....Chinese weapons finding their way into Iraq by way of Iran.”
Weapons that were made using American dollars are killing our sons and brothers/sisters in Iraq.
We are marching to the gallows wearing communist slave-labor made sneakers.
“Unfortunately, we found out that quite a few European toys are made in China as well,” Cho said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881840/posts
So why in the hell are we buying toys from these idiots?...Excuse me I see!...big business and George Bush planned it that way......
Made in USA
ussstuff.com
madeinusa.com
stillmadeinusa.com
Our son is a Legomaniac. I always felt comfortable buying them as I thought they were made in Denmark.
Your comments prompted me to do an internet search. It seems they too have been outsourcing their manufacturing to Mexico, China and the Czech Republic since 2005.
Dang!
“There is no doubt that all of this is true — but, it’s also true that most Chinese workers would rather have those jobs than the alternatives that are available to them.’
It’s within living memory that the Chinese couldn’t even feed themselves. Muckraking sensationalist reporting doesn’t dwell on that.
Now they are unconcerned about slavery of Chinese or Vietnamese as long as the have access to cheap crap.
The only reason that communism is still a threat is because of the hard currency we give them. If it weren’t for that they would have imploded like the USSR
It’s not slavery, it’s Socialist Workers’ Paradise!/s
Some pundits claim that the Chinese have abandoned communism, and embraced the free market system. One Airhead America type even claimed that China now exhibits “the worst characteristics of capitalism after abandoning socialism”. (Thom Hartmann).
Fact is that the Chinese government only tolerates what faintly resembles a market economy thanks to the hard currency it provides the government. There are still government owned factories, and business and factories owned by the People’s Liberation Army (there are even whorehouses owned by the PLA!). All this mainly to engage in economic warfare against the West (asymmetric warfare?) and also to buy more “toys” for the PLA (Flankers, Sovremmennyys, etc).
Having those jobs is not the point...sending us garbage is....
?Having those jobs is not the point...sending us garbage is....?
No, the article itself disputes that. It says, “The answer is not a boycott of Chinese toys.”
The article is a latter day version of Grapes of Wrath.
Yep, what you said.
I think Rush needs to adjust his aim a little, too much collateral damage here. But hey! we're getting there and boy are the toys cheap!
I just don’t buy that excuse. I am not disputing the wages no doubt are good compared to other jobs. But no one should have to work in such horrible conditions. As a Christian I believe that we are made in the image of God. When any person is abused, enslaved and tortured; his suffering is an affront to God Himself. Even the poorest of persons should not have to put his life at risk just so some child can have Barbie’s Malibu Repo House.
I agree that a boycott is not the answer as that would hurt the very people who have to work in these factories. At the very least the Chinese Government could start enforcing the work hour limits. They could ban the practice of fining workers as mentioned in the article. They could forbid the forfeiting of paid wages when a person leaves the job. But considering China’s human rights’ record that is probably a pipe dream. If their is any moral voice in China it probably is languishing in prison.
I honestly do not know what the answer is, I only know that cheap toys are way too costly.
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