DON'T BUY CHINESE CRAP

boblonsberry.com ^ | 08/20/07 | Bob Lonsberry

[shortstop]

I'm not saying Chinese products are crap.

I'm saying they are dangerous crap.

I'm saying that you can only have trade with people who have integrity, and people who poison kids and animals don't have integrity.

And, unless I'm misunderstanding all this, we had thousands of American pets killed by Chinese crap products. We've had almost 20 million American toys recalled because they were made by Chinese crap manufacturers.

We've had poison Chinese crap toothpaste – with a lethal anti-freeze ingredient included – sold to Americans and other people around the world. Just yesterday, consumer advocates in New Zealand warned that formaldehyde levels in crap clothes made in China was as much as 900 times the safe level. Over the weekend, it was reported that two New Zealand children were burned up when their flame-retardant Chinese crap pajamas burst into flame.

On Friday, the Bloomberg News Service said that Chinese counterfeiters had flooded some 700 American pharmacies with fake Johnson & Johnson diabetic test strips. These strips, essential to help diabetics regulate their blood sugar, were worthless paper. There is no estimate of how many Americans were endangered, harmed or killed by the counterfeits from a Chinese crap manufacturer.

It is an amazing string of coincidences. Time after time Chinese crap companies make adulterated products that dishonestly save them money and immorally endanger American lives. That's all just a run of bad luck, or it's evidence of just what they think of us and just how different our cultures are.

We value human life, they don't.

And it seems that the Chinese are intent on killing the goose that laid the golden egg – literally.

As our nation flushes its prosperity and independence down the toilet by abandoning manufacturing to slave-labor wages in China, the Chinese don't even have the good graces to give us quality products. They don't even have the humanity and decency to meet the terms of the contracts they sign and the safety standards they agree to.

And so we've gotten this string of recalls and warnings.

Americans will have to shell out more taxes to hire more inspectors and impose more regulations because the Chinese can't be trusted. In the name of neighborliness and political correctness we've got to pretend all is well with the Chinese and then search everything they send us with a fine-tooth comb in hopes of finding their latest attempt to defraud and deceive.

Well screw that.

This isn't a matter to be settled at the border, this is something to handle at the cash register.

In the words of the ancient Romans -- “caveat emptor.” That means, “Don't buy anything from China.”

And that's what Americans ought to do.

Individuals and families ought to put some value on their safety and their patriotism. “Country of origin” ought to start meaning something. Buy American when you can, from our friends when you must, from our enemies never.

And China is our enemy.

By any understanding of the word, the posture of the Chinese government and industrial establishment is antagonistic to the people, prosperity, government and industry of the United States. This long run of recalls is an insight into the Chinese world view and their fundamental disregard for our country and people. What might in smaller proportion be explained by sloppiness or incompetence can only be accounted for by willful disregard and deception. They're not idiots, they're crooks – crooks who are willing to endanger countless innocent people around the globe to put more filthy lucre in their pockets.

The Chinese government is, of course, seeing the world's recoil from its tainted products as some sort of trade-war stunt, or some racist revulsion to their national identity. They claim they are the victims in all this. They claim that other governments are trying to damage their profit streams.

Well, it wasn't some foreign government that put a poisonous chemical in rice flower in order to cheat the tests for protein content. It wasn't some foreign government that put poisonous anti-freeze in toothpaste in order to avoid paying for a wholesome and costlier ingredient. It wasn't some foreign government that systematically used poisonous lead paint on toys destined for millions of children across the world. It wasn't some foreign government that made counterfeit test strips and snuck them into the supply stream.

It was China.

And we can do something about that.

We can turn over the products we buy and find out where they're from. We can make the resolution to do all we can to avoid Chinese products.

Granted, Chinese hegemony of world commerce leaves their country as the only source for some useful products. In some situations, you are forced to buy the Chinese product or go without.

But there are still some situations in which non-Chinese products are available. Whenever possible, buy them. Whenever possible, avoid buying things made in China. Whenever possible, avoid putting money in the pocket of a country whose trade practices have been ruinous to your own homeland.

Buy American when you can, buy from our friends when you must, buy from our enemies never.

And right now, China is our enemy.

And so are its products.

Neither you nor your country can afford your continued support of made-in-China crap.

[ukie55]

Garlic can be grown in your home garden, even in the northern states.

I’ll bet it even acts as a pest repellent.

[ulm1]

bump

[Graymatter]

I recently sought to purchase a common household implement and found that every new one, in every store, was made in China. So I went to the tiny bother of finding an old one (better I might add) made in the USA...on ebay.

Every time you buy something, you are taking a political stand. It may not exactly tip the scales, but neither does a vote. Do it anyway! Stand up for America.

[AuntB]

. It’ll all blow over folks, try to control your overzealous nationalism ok.

It's going to take MANY more tax paid inspectors to start checking these imports. How much in tax dollars are you willing to spend to examine these dangerous imports?

[TChris]

...put a poisonous chemical in rice flower...

Ah yes. I just love the delicate scent of the rice flowers of springtime.

[Holicheese]

I am doing my level best to not buy anything that is chinese made.
I won’t even go to a chinese restaraunt anymore. Its Japanese, Korean and Thai only.

I wonder if China has not cut their own throat here. Other nations like India should be jumping for joy at the missteps that China has been making.
Because they have a billion people, they can lose a few million and not even blink.

[jws3sticks]

But If we don't buy from China that would mean that the shelves at WalMart will be bare!!

Actually, would they not be full to over flowing? Eventually, they would stop thinking of restocking packed shelves.

That would eventually slow the importation of poisoned goods and food stuff from China.

That "would be a good thing".

Given their human rights record, we should boycott their Olympic Games, too.

We could host an alternative series in Los Angeles, in a heart beat.

Mitt could run it, too, as I don't think he will be busy once Fred finally throws his hat in the ring.

[Lurking in Kansas]

Made in Mexico.

LOL, obviously it's not Microsh*t. All of Bill Gates stuff is made in China.

[Lurking in Kansas]

Been peeking in my windows again?

Yeah, and clean-up your desk too.

[Holicheese]

What kind of computer are you currently using?
Probably made in China.
Almost all computer gear is now made in China.

[SengirV]

Corporations are not going to be willing to squander their goodwill in order to go to the lowest cost manufacturer.

You can't possibly be serious. Sorry, but that ship has already sailed ...

... and returned again with a load of poisonous Chinesse products that maximize profits.

[Greg F]

Told the wife yesterday not to buy food at Walmart, assuming they have more imported Chinese food than other groceries. She needed buttons and only knew of Walmart to get them so wanted to combine the shopping. So we stopped by Walmart when we were close, got the buttons, but no Walmart food.

Threw out a lot of the Chinese toys of our two year old daughter. Wife said Mattel was on sale which made us happy that they were having to cut profits to keep sales moving.

[snowsislander]

Do you know that there is only 1 spinning mill in the US and it is Chinese owned?

Do you have a citation for that? I thought we still had some greige mills left operating in the U.S., although certainly all too few at this point.

(The textile industry, particularly greige mills, are excellent light industry. The product is not going to be obsoleted, production has little environmental impact, processing can be very highly automated, and we have all of the raw inputs here in abundance. It seems to me the greatest shame that the textile industry would be one of the ones most devastated by the emergence of a totalitarian state as the world's workshop, and highly ironic that we are still a leading producer of the agricultural inputs that are being shipped literally half-way around the world to be processed in mills in Red China --- with the processed products then shipped back to us in the U.S.)

Also, I think it would be less common to have a completely separate spinning operation. Spinning operations are logically located between carding and weaving, though I have seen mills where spinning was not so logically located.

To do your spinning here in the U.S. and then weaving in Red China seems odd. If you were doing weaving (or knitting) in the PRC, it would seem to me to be wiser to just ship raw materials such as cotton over for full processing.

[Holicheese]

Didn’t a China Airways plane just burst into flames on a runway?
They don’t even bother to maintain their aircraft, why would they take anything else seriously?

[gridlock]

I think this business has caught corporations that buy from China by surprise. Now they are stuck.

How many parents are going to go into the Christmas season, and see Mattel products Made in China and decide to buy something else?

[Holicheese]

It will be a pain in the a$$ for a while but it will be worth it in the end.
No more General Gao’s Chicken!

[sam_paine]

I have met Chinese people and they are lovable. Their government is magalomaniacally control-dedicated. Their culture is horrifying in its rampant superstition and lack of common hygiene.
Set these people free! How? I don’t know how.

Well, RoadTest, there are some people who actually believe that trade, a natural property of the greater asian culture, is the key to the door to eventually set the chinese people free.

[Greg F]

Well, RoadTest, there are some people who actually believe that trade, a natural property of the greater asian culture, is the key to the door to eventually set the chinese people free.
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Not willing to eat poison to help them out. Sorry.

[snowsislander]

I won’t even go to a chinese restaraunt anymore. Its Japanese, Korean and Thai only.

You might want to ask. I know that many times that "Japanese" restaurants are not run by Japanese.

[gridlock]

Frankly, you are better off with the Skil saw. I bought one cheap because I was going to saw-cut my driveway and pretty much figured I would trash the saw in the process.

Well, ten years later, that old saw is still in my toolbox. I have done just about everything possible to kill it, but it just will not die.