by Carrie K. Hutchens
It's bad enough walking through China-Mart, I mean Wal-Mart, trying to find something that isn't made in China, when you have a fondness for buying American made products, but that bad has gotten even worse.
China's products made our pets sick. Then they made our kids sick. Now information is coming out that medicine (or the ingredients) are also coming from China? Whose air-head idea was that one?
I cannot believe that people in the power think it is a good thing to out-source our jobs to places like China. We take away jobs here to get products cheaper so the now unemployed workers will be able to afford them? Guess that makes sense to someone, since that is what it looks like is happening. But it doesn't make sense to me. I see it as a deadly game. I see it as offering our citizens up for the sacrifice and slaughter for the almighty dollar or some silly idea of how if we give them all our work and our money -- China might like us and be nice.
KMBC has an interesting article on this matter, "China Makes Many Drugs Sold In U.S. - Blood Thinner Heparin Linked To Deaths" (Kansas City, MO - POSTED: 4:50 pm CST February 21, 2008. UPDATED: 9:57 pm CST February 21, 2008). An article that should be an eye-opener to people who are naively thinking the high standards for our meds, food and products are still in place.
I, too, feel that China isn't all that concerned about it's own citizens. It's irrational to think they are going to be overly-cautious with products for us and give all the sub-standard to their own. So the question becomes, "Why in the world would anyone in this country think they would be more concerned about us -- a people that they seem to merely tolerate for the opportunities, money and jobs they can take at our expense?"
I'm not sure if we produced a generation of air-heads or simply one with some pretty heartless and greedy people, but the craziness of this all ought to be getting pretty obvious to the American people. Made in China products should no longer be considered a mere annoyance. It should be taken for what it truly is -- a matter of national security! A matter of China destroying America by America's own defect -- air-heads and the heartless greedy!
We teach our children that they should say "no" to drugs. Maybe we should teach our society to say "no" to drugs from China. Maybe we should go one better than that. Maybe we should say "no" to anything made in China and to the stores that overwhelming sell their products rather than Made in the USA ones. Maybe it is time for our voices and our concern to be heard and responded to.
As consumers, we do have the power to make a difference. A difference the air-heads might not grasp, but the heartless greedy will be scrambling to get the profit margin back up and that is to our advantage. I think it is about time we take advantage of that advantage and stop the China frenzy. Stop the dangerous imports that threaten our lives and our livelihood, and the dangerous export of our jobs that threaten to totally destroy our economy! It's time to take our market and, therefore, our country back! It's past time to say "NO" to China and "YES" to the USA! Why not say it today?
Friday, February 22, 2008
Producing A Generation of Air-Heads Or Is It Heartless Greed?
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4 comments:
Though I'm a regular Wal-Mart shopper, I've been disappointed that Wal-Mart has left behind their "made in the USA" roots in favor of so much foreign merchandise.
But then, for the average shopper, what choice do you have? All the other stores are doing the same thing, so unless you can afford to do all your shopping at Macey's (for all I know, they're big-China, too), that's what you're stuck with.
We need our government to put the good of our people, and the cause of freedom, ahead of the money influence.
We used to trade with free nations like Taiwan and South Korea. Why have we dumped favored trade with them, in favor of a bunch of communists who would just as soon see us wiped off the map (and are apparently working on that without firing a shot)?
I agree with you 100%, Carrie.
It isn't easy to find things that are still made in the U.S., but we need to start demanding them and be willing to pay a little more for them. China can produce things so cheaply because they're willing to throw things like labor and health standards out the window. We don't do that in America, so our products can't be as cheap. But bringing jobs back to the U.S. and feeling confident that we're not going to be poisoned by the things we buy seems worth it to me.
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K & Bob,
We should be concerned by China taking over our jobs and then selling us defective products that can kill us all off. Something isn't right that we aren't being protected from them and instead forced into purchasing their products when Wal-Mart is our only shopping option.
I'm all for demanding American made products and rejecting as many China made products as possible. One way that perhaps we could make our voices heard, even when we are stuck with Wal-Mart shopping as our only in-person option, is to avoid unnecessary items, search the internet for those items we can wait on and save to buy either Made in the USA or at the very least -- items made by countries we have had a good trade relationship with.
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