Group believes buildings built with tainted drywall [since 2001]

KTAR Talk Radio ^ | February 20th, 2009 | Bob McClay/KTAR

[donna]

A watchdog group claims that homes all over the country, including thousands in Phoenix and Tucson, may have been built with tainted drywall.

"America's Watchdog" says the drywall may contain gypsum mined near Chinese toxic waste dumps.

"We think the drywall is made of gypsum, which is a naturally occurring product mined in China," said Thomas Martin with the group. "But unlike U.S. manufacturers, the Chinese never cleanse the gypsum."

Martin says the contamination isn't limited to only residential homes. Most of the houses were built after 2001.

"Some of the mid to high-rise buildings that have been built during the real estate boom I think we're discovering now also have this very problematic dry wall in it," said Martin.

There are three signs that indicate a property might have used the tainted drywall: A rotten egg (or sulfuric) smell, degraded air conditioner coils and electrical wires that have turned black or corroded.

[donna]

[bikerman]

Obama’s fault

[Regulator]

I smell major class action....

Good. SOB's use crap Chinese junk to undermine U.S. manufacturers who have to comply with environmental rules? Let them pay in the courts.

[LiberConservative]

Are the Chinese even capable of making anything that won’t make you sick?

[al baby]

or wanting more a hour later

[1000 silverlings]

and you know it ain’t just drywall that’s toxic, I’ll bet every plastic piece of crap they make is nuclear waste recycled

[1rudeboy]

Funny you should mention it:

Americas Watchdog Invites Residential Construction Defect Attorneys...

[BGHater]

Florida is having the same problems.

[nyconse]

Not that I can see. I bought a new pair of jeans of course made in China...can’t find anything else...washed the stupid jeans 3 times and still turns me blue every time, I try to wear them. Plus, I got a splitting headache...I never get headaches lucky that way. Those jeans are going back to the store tomorrow.

[rabidralph]

Apparently, not.

[null and void]

China ping...

[nyconse]

but...we have to have cheapest product for our consumers since our pols and banker globalists have sent most good jobs overseas or insourced such jobs (Tech including Microsoft), how will the new American workers (Biggest job sector=retail-pays so well-sarcasm) buy these Chicom products and continue to “lift the third world” out of poverty (except of course the mentally disabled workers, slave workers and child workers) while destroying our economy and our country. A sovereign American and her citizens will not stand in the way of the billions these global citizens (not American) plan to make by the destruction of our nation.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Let's have a big round of applause for the Bush Dynasty New World Order. They have now put the criminals who savage the American economy and citizen beyond the reaches of the American trial lawyers. We will punish the American distributors, but not the Chinese criminals. There is honor among the international financial elite, that is to protect themselves.

[AuntB]

Ain’t globalism grand!!!!???

[Son House]

A Drywall Crisis calls for another immediate Bail-Out, women, children and minorities hardest hit

[Regulator]

I know. It's terrible, isn't it? It would be racist to stop these poor, desperate ChiCom FasciCapitalists from looting our country and finally making whole the masses of China, who of course are victims themselves of evil round-eyes.

We should all be dutiful little Citizens of The World and take up our positions at the bottom of the trade heap.

It's only right.

Yea, right...

[donna]

I’m wondering if we need geiger counters in our homes.

[donna]

What an opportunity for fraud. Those lawyers will be buzy (and rich) for decades.

[1000 silverlings]

blankets to Indians