Posted on 08/21/2007 5:31:03 AM PDT by 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.
I’d prefer to destabilize them, foment domestic insurrection, arm their minorities. Half the country isn’t Han despite hundreds of years of Sinicizing.
With any luck we could kick them back into a Warring States period or at least warlordism.
If it comes to a shooting war, let our regional allies take the losses, the Koreans, Indians, Taiwanese all have lots more infantry to lose than we do.
I’ve been looking for a coffee maker with timer turn-on that is not made in China.
Anyone know of a single one?
Among my many favorite moments from being in China: getting drunk in a restaurant with a few local friends, and one girl giggling about a comment I made about the slightly strange smell of the food at the next table... then finally getting her to admit that she thought I (and all Americans) smell funny, and she started guffawing with this cute but weird laugh. It was hilarious, and I laughed, too. Seriously, I will always know when I'm in Beijing, just by the personal odor (especially in elevators and buses). It is distinct. Not quite as bad as a junior high locker room, but in the same ballpark. I think likely comes from the extremely heavy use of oils in the cooking... but apparently they're used to it, and not quite accustomed to American deodorants/body scents.
I continue to be stunned at how most Chinese can be acne-free, yet take in SO much oily cooking.
Actually, it is. However, right now I’m on the only desktop computer in the house. The ‘puter is put together from pieces and parts, so the mouse is probably 10 years old. Found it lurking in the back of a closet.
I have no doubt that, were I to look, I’d find all the laptops in the house are all made in China.
So the Skil saw is American made and LESS expensive. That’s surprising. Just goes to show that it’s all marketing costs not quality of goods . . .
Actually I have seen alot of Koreans working as sushi chefs.
Also, never trust a female sushi chef. Their hands are too warm.
I am really into Korean food lately. I have begun to make this Korean beef called Bulgogi(sp?). Fantastic.
It was a China Airlines (not China Airways) 737, and China Airlines is not Chinese, it's not owned by Chinese, it does not fly to / from China at all. It's a Taiwanese carrier.
Didn’t they just execute the minister of public health or something like that? That’s one way to get compliance.
The mill spins and weaves the bolts of cloth.
This is what I was told by Cotton Incorporated and I have no reason to disbelieve them but that is my only citation.
Dose is the poison, friend.
Interesting post. In my case, when I buy clothing I look for the “Made In Canada” (me being Canadian) or “Made in the USA” labels (I like to support our friends) or made in other non-exploitative labour markets first. But it has occurred to me that even when I buy, say, a pair of jeans “Made In Canada” that likely the cotton was processed, and the denim produced, in China. Which is somewhat strange when you consider that the latter operations are those most suited to automation, whereas actual clothing assembly is usually fairly labour-intensive.
“You might want to ask. I know that many times that “Japanese” restaurants are not run by Japanese.”
The Japanese restaurant I frequent is operated by Koreans. Actually it’s a Japanese-Korean restaurant. Love their kim-chee. I’m also a big fan of Vietnamese restaurants, although I’m not sure the one closest to my place that I frequent is actually run by Vietnamese people.
i agree but good luck figuring out which parts are chinese if it is imported (it will likely only say “distributed by [the name of the american company]).
if it is a food or drug ingredient that is used in manufacturing a product made in another country—you will never know. the company would have to tell you they used products from china.
its crazy. the FDA and FTC, presidents, and the congress for the last ten years have failed american consumers. they knew china was a problem for years now but it is all about the bottom line. they knew what china was sending over (i bet they are one of the biggest providers of bogus pharmaceuticals) and have done nothing.
they have no idea what the long term effects are of these products we have been using or consuming. just wait till it becomes evident.
If I may ask, which mill is this, or as I originally asked, do you have a citation for your statement in posting #92: Do you know that there is only 1 spinning mill in the US and it is Chinese owned? And that they send the matierial out of country for the finished product?
This is a subject of some interest to me. I think the loss of our textile industry was a great shame. Japan, an equally high-cost producer, still has a textile industry; I think that textile production is perhaps still a viable light industry for the U.S., especially considering that we are still a leading producer of the raw inputs.
However, if we are down to a single spinning mill as you have asserted, then it doesn't sound like we will ever find out if textile production can still be economically viable here.
Thanks, I was just wondering where you had that information from.
I had thought that both Milliken and Burlington Industries were still running textile mills here in the U.S., so your statement that we only had one spinning mill left surprised me.
As I said, it was a representative of Cotton Incorporated and I don’t know the name of the mill but it is in Raliegh, NC. I normally don’t take people’s word without a little bit of research but I did this time. I could be wrong and if you know better then just let me know.
true, true
BTW, such engine fires are very rare. Most engine fires happen during take-off to top of descent, when engines are at full power. Engine fires could occur with fuel connections loose or penetration of engine casing during catastrophic failure in th engine core. However, it appeared the engine blew up during engine idle before shutdown after arrival at gate. There must be a catastrophic failure of the engine with a compressor or compressors detaching and puncturing the compressor case and nacelle and hit the wing fuel tanks. It could be a compressor fan but the fan case liner are designed to contain it. Since the engine is a GE/Snecma CFM56 engine, investigations could expand to the Airbus A320 and 340 line, which uses similar engines. It would be interesting to find out exactly what happened.
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