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.
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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