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.
LOL - I guess that explains why a couple of fingers and toes and an ear have dropped off.
And that's just one of the many thousands of instances. The cost of UL certifications is still in US dollars and it ain't cheap, believe me.
We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg. I hope there's some folk out there that will document Chicom counterfeiting and product safety disregards and soon issue that list. Americans and the world need to know.
I just sent the following to DeWALT, Black&Decker and Bosch (with the appropriate name change):
As a customer who has purchased and enjoyed DeWalt quality tools I attempted to purchase a new DeWALT circular power saw at Loews over the weekend. Unfortunately DeWALT, Black & Decker, Bosch and others have decided Americans are not worthy of manufacturing jobs and have shifted production to China. I was willing to pay up to $200 for such a saw but ended up paying $49 for a Skill circular saw which I am sure is not anywhere near the quality of the aforementioned manufactures but was made in the USA. I am sorry to say I will no longer buy your products as long as they are made by our political enemy!
I like your tagline. Instead of copying it, I want to make this broad statement my tagline: Don’t wanna vote for no RINOs.
I agree that the Chinese have a different take on the value of life than we in the west have.
“But”, let’s not loose sight of the fact that western corporations doing business in China have some accountability in these product problems too.
As an example, why didn’t Mattel (a western corporation)have proper incoming inspections on materials being introduced into third party assembly and manufacturing companies building toys in their behalf? Typically, criteria is written in the T&C’s (terms and conditions of the contract. These T&C’s should have specified that no lead based paint be used. Then, what’s known as “articles of inspection” for incoming materials specify the nature of sampling and inspecting that should take place to ensure these T&C’s are being complied with. Last but not least, Mattel should have had their own engineering and quality control personnel inside these facilities ensuring that process’s, procedures, quality, etc are all being complied with. In other words, protecting Mattel’s best interests. Obviously, Mattel was derelict in all of these critical but very basic operational procedures.
(What I don’t understand is why the President or the house step up to the plate and deal with this.)
Might be because they use non-domestic products also. The Feds and all the states use non-domestic products on a daily basis. There’s a program called BUY AMERICA, which was meant to make all federal and state contractors use American made products only. Only there was 1 small glitch, it allows the contractor to use non-domestic products in their bid, if the price of the product comes in 25% less than the lowest domestic product. In theory it would keep the non-domestics out of the market. In reality the non-domestics had no problem coming in below the 25% mark.
I generally avoid buying tools at Lowes/HomeDepot. The "house brands" are all made in China. I go to Sears ... Craftsman is still made in USA.
(What I don’t understand is why the President or the house step up to the plate and deal with this.)
Might be because they use non-domestic products also. The Feds and all the states use non-domestic products on a daily basis. There’s a program called BUY AMERICA, which was meant to make all federal and state contractors use American made products only. Only there was 1 small glitch, it allows the contractor to use non-domestic products in their bid, if the price of the product comes in 25% less than the lowest domestic product. In theory it would keep the non-domestics out of the market. In reality the non-domestics had no problem coming in below the 25% mark.
My family had pets while I grew up too. None of them dropped dead from eating a can of pet food.
The level of contaminmants in Chinese consumer goods is something not seen in the US in over 100 years.
So please control your overzealous globalism, ok?
Awww that breaks my heart.
Excellent post!
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?
How many other industries are like that? Could we actually close our borders and survive anymore? I really don't know the answer but I do wonder.
China made big news last year when they surpassed Germany (I think it was Germany) to reach the #4 position on the list.
For all the volume of crap China produces, it's still a lot of very cheap crap. And one of their biggest problems right now is that they are losing manufacturing jobs to other Asian countries that produce even cheaper crap than they do.
My wife bought some fruit in glass jars from Dollar Tree or one of those dollar stores. There was a jar of peach halves and one of pear halves in some sort of liquid. The fruit looked good, although I thought it was odd that it was packaged in glass. Then I read the label which said Made in China. I told her we were not going to eat the stuff.
How can we avoid buying Chinese crap? My Apple iPhone? Made in China. My raincoat? Made in China. The list goes on and on. We have outsourced everything to the Chicoms.
Good.
LOL! I looked at mine. Made in Mexico.
“I’d rather buy mexican than chinese.”
We’ve got several million of them here in Texas we’ed be more than happy to sell ya real cheap.
I'll be darned. My Mac laser mouse is assembled in China. How did you know? Been peeking in my windows again?
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