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 with that. I have come to the conclusion that our government is neck-high in chicken$hit when it comes to wanting to protect us. It's all about the money & power with them, I think it's way past time we clean out the chicken coop.
We need to do this ourselves - our government won't help us anymore - and in fact - I think is actively working against us. A boycott hits these companies in the pocketbook and that's the only thing that these people understand.
ROFL!!
I suspect there will be a change in China as well eventually. Can’t continue to grow an economy at that rate and spit out inferior products forever. Standard of living in China is also increasing as they are the second biggest demand for autos in the world besides the U.S. Chinese people won’t be held down forever, especially as they get richer. I suspect China will eventually become a democracy, we’ll see.
“TW... Usually, when I get into discussions about “the Chinese” (or “the Americans” or “the French”, etc), I have to remind people that there’s a huge distinction between the people and the government in any philosophical situation... but it’s not as important a distinction in this case, sadly.”
I know what you’re saying and I see the truth of it.
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.
Because obviously, the answer to every problem is more government intrusion into our lives.
You have to fire all the corrupt politicians who took ‘trade’ jaunts to China with our manufacturers and created legislation that paid them to move offshore. You have to fire all the corrupt politicians whose financial stake in China is so great that they would create laws to promote the Chinese economy so as to increase the value of their investments there.
You will have to fire a LOT of politicians and elect loyal Americans who will stand for Constitutional government in their place. Only then, will you prevail over this economic nightmare.
Important distinction, and he's right.
Always has been, always will be.
We ought to get into a shooting all-out war with them NOW, while we still have a chance.
No they wouldn't, not even close. But the selves at Costco would be.
Politcoho’s and lying CEO’s are in cahoots to make the COL of Americans as cheap as possible so the gov can continue to fleece our back pockets and the CEO’s get their multi million dollar bonuses and at the same time keep Americans out of once highly regarded manufacturing jobs.
Its made out of uranium.
I went to Penny’s and Macy’s to look for some new dress shoes. Some 95% were made in China, by slave girls chained to their machines for 16 hours per day.
I told the clerk at Macy’s that I was interested in buying shoes not made in China. She found one pair made in Italy, and another made in Malaysia. She said more people are commenting about the “made in China” label, and are willing to pay more for non-Chinese shoes.
I just realized that you could substitute a few words and you could be talking about us:
"I have met Chinese American people and they are lovable. Their government is megalomaniacally controlprofit/power-dedicated. Their culture is horrifying in it's rampant superstitionnarcissism and lack of common hygienesense"
That’s funny.
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