Danger: Chinese goods

Really, you think China is going to suffer some big consequences? Seems like the incentives for Western companies are still way more on the side of doing business with companies in China when they can deliver goods so much cheaper than companies almost anywhere else in the world. The Western companies just have to do a better job of checking out the goods they are buying. Problem is, the Western buyers are just as eager to get rich as the Chinese manufacturers and often just as amoral. Everybody knows its a caveat emptor situation, but sometimes its just a lot more profitable for the emptor to turn a blind eye to the caveat.

The western billionaires have made china richer by sending there companies there. They have only thought a bout themselves and there wealth and they have actually been disloyal to there own countries, but who controls the rich noone does.

They forgot to mention that your Dentist may now be getting the crown or bridge they are putting in your mouth from China. Why, because they can save money. As if the $800-$1000 was not enough. As much as China does to send the products here there are those who will buy them anyway. If drywall can tarnish metal and melanine can kill a pet, what is in the crown they are putting in your mouth.

Why as Americans we have to import all of these inferior product for greed is beyond my comprehension. If we are buying imported products we deserve what comes with these products. Toys, dog food, baby formula, drywall, what are we thinking. The only way chinese products will ever be worth the $$$ will be for Americans to quit purchasing them. And when we have strict guidlines set for all imported products purchased then and only then will these products be of quality standards. We have strict guidlines for all American made products but can ship any and all garbage in to our country. Why?

Why?$$$$- and big dollars to boot. Manufacturing of about anything in the US is almost obsolete. Lobbyists have paid off the congress to pass these stupid laws that make these imports so desireable, put the middle class out of work, and now wonder what happened. And in the end, we keep voting these a**holes back in, and deserve what we get.

The old adage, "You get what you pay for", has never been truer. Yes, goods made in the U.S. are more expensive, for a reason. They meet exacting requirements and tend not to kill people. It's not just labor costs, it's also the testing and research and control that keeps the products safe. If the retailers that keep buying this garbage took the heat for selling bad products, maybe they'd do their homework and the Chinese would be forced to adopt better standards.

Brian wrote:

The old adage, "You get what you pay for", has never been truer. Yes, goods made in the U.S. are more expensive, for a reason. They meet exacting requirements and tend not to kill people. It's not just labor costs, it's also the testing and research and control that keeps the products safe. If the retailers that keep buying this garbage took the heat for selling bad products, maybe they'd do their homework and the Chinese would be forced to adopt better standards.

This ideaology apparently didn't parse over to American auto makers. When Toyota and Nissan first hit the American markets, they were inexpensive.

Americans citied poor quality from domestic manufacturers as the reason they buy foreign cars.

Take a look in any parking lot and then look back at what you just wrote. Face it, the average Joe is gonna buy what they can afford...and it comes from overseas.

Sherry wrote:

Why as Americans we have to import all of these inferior product for greed is beyond my comprehension. If we are buying imported products we deserve what comes with these products. Toys, dog food, baby formula, drywall, what are we thinking. The only way chinese products will ever be worth the $$$ will be for Americans to quit purchasing them. And when we have strict guidlines set for all imported products purchased then and only then will these products be of quality standards. We have strict guidlines for all American made products but can ship any and all garbage in to our country. Why?

I just wish people would remember that when they shop at Wal-Mart.

Our companies have shifted production to China and other asian countries to utilize the cheeper labor available there. The labor there are building the cheeper products based on the specifications supplied by our own American companies. Our American companies should be blamed for the problems being encountered. Wake up americans. you are being screwed by these greedy american companies.

Not the Chinese wallboard, it's probably the low quality Amerikan made product. Amerikans always like to blame others for their faults.

at naturalhealthnews.blogspot. com/search?q=dry+wall
reports dating back to Dec 2008.

worth reading.

also think she was at Tribune suburban div in the late 60s

Don't count out Chinese Farm raised seafood. It may cost 1/2 as much as wild caugh, but you'll pay for it in the long run with food poisoning.

I have been trying to buy American for the last year or so and it is very frustrating to find any American made items. So I look for items made in Canada, the Europe Union countries and anywhere but China.

The urge to save money while having as many material goods as possible is part of the problem. Manufacturers do not want to increase the price of the items to pay a decent wage so it has been shipped overseas to be made more cheaply. Since real salaries have declined since the Reagan years, people cannot afford to buy items made by other Americans, yet everyone still wants to have the DVD players, wide screen TVs and the latest fashions.

Big box stores (i.e., Wal-Mart) have accelerated the process because they can force a manufacturer to make something more cheaply or go to someone else who will.

My son is starting first grade in late August. On his list for school supplies six Elmer's glue sticks are required. The package shows that they are made in China. It's a product that is ubiquitous in day care centers and schools. Younger children are not going to be conscientious about not putting fingers with glue on them into their mouths. I found six glue sticks made by Ross in Canada at a grocery store yesterday and bought them at a cost of nearly $5.00. A big box retailer with the red cirles logo was selling Elmer's glue sticks in packages of two for 27 cents.

We need to stop buying Chinese and let retailers know we want more options.

We need to trim down our manufacturing costs to compete with these bottom feeders from overseas. We'll never match their labor costs but through automation and common sense we can produce products that are higher quality and competitively priced.
That common sense has to include a clue or two about taxation and regulation. We have regulated industries out of the country. What do we have left? Some dinosaur car companies that are too big to die, a lot of software and services, retail, and trucking/transportation.
It seems that every major industry in the U.S. has been targeted by tax-and-spend types who have been raised to regard business as evil and greedy. Well, when you kill the goose that lays the golden egg, you get exactly what you deserve.
Other countries are doing the heavy lifting now, designing and fashioning the hardware that we all buy every day. Meanwhile, we are sinking into poverty and backwardness.
Some day, the U.S. will be a has-been 3rd world economy being propped up by loans and aid from a Japan-China confederation. They'll be afraid of letting us totally fail because of our thousands of nuclear weapons. But they will hold us in contempt as a bunch of fat, lazy turds who sacrificed our once mighty economy on the altar of socialism.

AMERIKAN??? Go back where you came from or at least learn to use a DICTIONARY!
Thank you NAFTA!
PS AMERIKAN ... look it up.

rosco wrote:

Not the Chinese wallboard, it's probably the low quality Amerikan made product. Amerikans always like to blame others for their faults.

As the Puppet Boy Barry tries to drive industry and jobs offshore this will continue.

The Tort lawyers only go after easy targets here in America.

Thanks Obamabots, you are truly clueless. brainwashed by the state run media.

well with the walmart economy what is expected? if people complained about this freaking conservatives would scream about protectionism. and due to people wanting to purchase the absolutely cheapest stuff they are driving their countrymen out of work and they are then darn near forced to shop at walmart - deepening the cycle.

Terry,

The point is that we cannot compete under "free trade." Under fair trade tariffs would be imposed which would make these cheap goods less cheap and less attractive alternatives.

What Bush 43 and Reagan did not understand is that capitalism with regulation works best. It protects consumers. Fear of lawsuits can also work to keep companies from doing things that hurt people. Does anyone remember the peanut butter recall and the problems at the processing plant and that was here in the U.S.?

It was Bill Clinton and the Bush family who hurriedly outsourced our Industrial Base to China. We have lost some 7 million good paying jobs never to return. Since we produce nothing, we are in a major depression worse than the 1929 era. Funny, no politician of either stripe dares to mention China and Walmart.
We need more explanations from Congress about how much more money American Corportions are making because of the Cheap labor in China and other third world countries.
The Corporatists should be made to move to China, their new found world.

Freddie Kilowatt wrote:

It was Bill Clinton and the Bush family who hurriedly outsourced our Industrial Base to China. We have lost some 7 million good paying jobs never to return. Since we produce nothing, we are in a major depression worse than the 1929 era. Funny, no politician of either stripe dares to mention China and Walmart.
We need more explanations from Congress about how much more money American Corportions are making because of the Cheap labor in China and other third world countries.
The Corporatists should be made to move to China, their new found world.

Don't be afraid to include some actual facts in your comments.

Remember that Bill Clinton opened our markets to China renewing the "Most Favored Nation Trading Status" in 1993. This was tied to the condition that China would improve human rights.

Chia balked at this condition and called the bluff. Clinton folded and China has been walking on us ever since.

Those are the "actual" facts.