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.
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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