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A spoiled few seeking to have the government forcibly remove the money of the rest of all Americans.

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[MEG33]

You must have missed all the threads on the manufacturing jobs lost by moves to China.Will be shifting all military manufacturing to China ?

[Rodney King]

You are not supposed to use phony headlines.

[bmwcyle]

Post the headline so more than one post can be avoided. You can add you comments in the post.

[warchild9]

Justice defined in this situation: whether the bribes, er, campaign contributions, from the Communist Chinese are greater than those from the furniture manufacturers. And, sir, you are supporting buying from a Communist dictatorship here. If it were the Soviet Union, would you be as sanguine?

[Capriole]

I absolutely disagree. If the Gustav Stickley company goes out of business, that is little less than a tragedy. These are skilled American craftsmen, sustaining a long and important tradition of furniture making that preserves a cultural heritage going back over 300 years. Americans are throwing their money away on this bastard Chinese garbage that is executed with no understanding of traditional American/English forms. We are losing our heritage here.

American workers are losing their jobs and pensions, and American families are losing their homes, too, with no replacement jobs in many of these Southern communities. Is it being "spoiled" to protest that? If you lose your job and your home, are you spoiled?

If, in the name of saving money for yourself, you want to buy Chinese crap and feed the vast Chinese economic machine that has explicitly threatened to nuke Los Angeles, that's your prerogative. But in years past we had a name for people who traded with the enemy, and it's not an attractive one. Please reconsider your purchase. Buy the few American-made products we have left.

[harpseal]

A spoiled few seeking to have the government forcibly remove the money of the rest of all Americans.

Ah yes another voice from the People's Republic of China. When China's currency is allowed to float free on international exchange nmarkets and they stop subsidizing the building of factories to compete with US products and they stop using slave labor I will isten to your complaints. However, in the interim I will suggest that apologists for Communist Dictatorships are no better than the members of that regime.

[sergeantdave]

I don't understand why Americans are buying so-called goods from Wong Fat's No Damn Good furniture company from China. To say Chinese craftsmanship sucks is an undeserved compliment.

I also don't understand why the American furniture manufacturers are not running ads to educate the American people on the superior product they turn out.

I could see a commercial where a fellow buys a Chinese junk dresser, opens the drawer and the side falls off, a leg snaps and he's standing there looking stupid with a broken bail in his hand. That would be truth in advertising.

[austinTparty]

You really are a glutton for punishment, aren't you? :o)

[Redleg Duke]

Having been doing a lot of furniture shopping of late, I am particularly frustrated in the large amount slave labor furniture dumped in the show rooms. It is interesting to see the look on the salesperson's face when I discover the "Made in China" label underneath and state, "We do not buy slave labor produced products!"

I think we ought to put massive tarrifs on all ChiComm imports. Yeah, cheap machine tools too!

[Eva]

I have to say that the Chinese made furniture does not compare to the better American made brands. Bassett is not one of them, however.

[Incorrigible]

If you're going to buy furniture from Socialist countries, maybe you can buy it from here:

[AxelPaulsenJr]

A spoiled few seeking to have the government forcibly remove the money of the rest of all Americans.

"Spoiled few" That is an unfair and a cheap comment. We are a small lumber company just trying to get by, selling to our domestic furniture makers. They as we do, have to pay the going labor rates and then compete against chinese made furniture made with nearly slave labor.

I'm sorry that you feel that I am trying to take some money out of your pocket. As the story noted Chinese furniture is getting better, but to this point it is in many cases still lacking in quality at least in the case of finer furniture.

But hey that is the nature of free competition isn't it? Hope your industry never gets beseiged by cheap foreign competition.

As others have noted on this thread, what happens if all manufacturing in this country gets moved off shore? Who will be left in this country that has any income to consume anything?

[maui_hawaii]

A spoiled few seeking to have the government forcibly remove the money of the rest of all Americans.

A completely ignorant statement on your behalf.

[Studebaker Hawk]

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

No man is an Iland,
intire of it selfe,
everyman is a peece of the Continent,
a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea,
Europe is the lesse,
as well as if a Promontorie were,
as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were;
any mans death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to
know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee...

JOHN DONNE John Donne (1571-1631)

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