Posted on 08/21/2007 5:31:03 AM PDT by shortstop
Good luck that. (BTW, look on the bottom of your mouse and see where it was made.)
The difference is seen in the response to the complaints about quality.
The Japanese went on to out-Demming the US.
The Chinese are blaming unknown persons, the US importers, blah, blah, blah, and taking no responsibility for their problems.
The Japanese created many quality brands as a result of how they took consumer criticism.
The Chinese are doing nothing but pissing off the consumer with their actions to date.
There is a difference.
You can detect the counterfeits because the title of the book is "Hally Potter and the Deathry Harrows"
Corporations are not going to be willing to squander their goodwill in order to go to the lowest cost manufacturer. Mattel cannot afford to have their name become synonymous with dangerous products. It will not matter if they save a dollar on production if they can’t sell the product.
Frankly, this is all a good thing. There is too much crap merchandise in the World. People should be buying quality products that last, which is a very rare thing to find in Chinese manufacturing. It’s cheaper in the long run to buy quality.
When we buy thing now days even if it says manufacture in the US where the ingredients come from?
might be China
Cheap Japanese turned into superior Japanese products. Furthermore they are a free country and perhaps our best ally in the world. Japan is a totally different situation.
This situation is reminding me of the scenario in Tom Clancy's The Bear and The Dragon where Americans rejected everything made in China and caused a collapse of the Chinese economy. It could happen.
I think we’ve all become aware that China issues inferior products. I also watch my vegie labels. The local crops are in now and I’m always glad to pay the farmer a fair price...and even a little more.
Can't happen soon enough. Bring it on...
What I don’t understand is why the President or the house step up to the plate and deal with this.
Too much campaign money involved?
The Clintons are famous for taking China money!
What about Nancey or Harry?
Be sure to read very carefully. Sometimes they say "Made [or assembled] in the USA out of foreign & domestic contents." or something to that extent.
You're right. I think it would be effective if we all started sending letters to companies asking where their ingredients, components, etc. come from. Lots of things there is no other alternative to buying them made somewhere else - but I also feel like there are lots of things that we can live without buying too.
A boycott would accomplish several things - it would tell the companies that they need us more than we need them. It would also show each of us what we really can live without.
I don't know about anyone else, but the older I get, the more I want to get out of the rat race and live more simply.
You rarely can tell where anything is manufactured. Look at a label and you’ll see “Distributed by ... in the USA” ... the “manufactured by (country) ...” is NOT there. I have written my senators and congressman asking that the little flag of the manufacturer’s country be on everything. The “flag” becomes their brand. They screw up on pajamas, they lose sales on anything else with their flag on it. Right now, if you saw a Chinese flag, you wouldn’t touch the product ... but right now, YOU DON’T KNOW who manufactured most of this stuff ... it is HIDDEN from us. I think this is a basic consumers’ right to know issue. (No answer from any of my emails).
True!
In addition, when the Federal government forces a US manufacturer to pay a minimum wage our tariffs need to factor that pay scale into similar products produced by 3rd world types. When the Federal government imposes EPA and OSHA restrictions on manufactures a compliance cost must be calculated and incorporated in a tariff if a similar item is imported by a 3rd world type country.
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?
Indirectly you are buying their crap, if you purchase Chinese grown garlic. The woman in that picture is putting crap on her garlic crop. The Chinese raise 75% of the worlds garlic. Buy US raised garlic.
K Mart was all Chinese when Wal-Mart still had a lot of American made stuff.
Ah yes, but it’s CHEAP crap, and that’s all that matters to US companies and free traitors that don’t care about anything else.
I don’t have a mouse. I use a tracker ball. (Uh, it’s made in China though.)
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