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What's NOT Made in China?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by railman</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by dkelly</i> <br /><br />China is making money off of us? And then they hold our plane hostage? Funny thing. I don't remember China forcing American companies to manufacture stuff there. I dare say that in the big scheme of stuff China is not making as much on each sneaker made there as this country would if it were made here. Manufacturers are there because they can increase their bottom lines by being there because of a higher profit margin and the fact that American consumers like the results of stuff being made there. (how much would a name brand sneaker cost if made here in America?)Political rallies? Write the manufacture? None of this works. If people truly want a manufacturer to stop doing business in a certain country . . . . say China, then there is a simple solution. Stop buying its product. You can write a CEO a hundred letters today . . . but it's a waste of time if you just turn around and buy the product anyways. These are corporations . .. . they are concerned with one thing . . . the bottom line. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Nobody is "forcing" anybody to go to china, but remember a few things before everyone starts singing "Kum-by-ya" ( I KNOW I spelled that wrong, sorry) and praising this one world bs- <br /> <br />China has, through government intervention (i.e. Communist gov't) their currency artificially weak, and sets it's value. The US and others adopted a floating dollar that responds to the market, et.c. This is one reason companies are lured there. <br /> <br />China also has rampant piracy and duplication that has beguh to catch up with automakers and the like that sell their cars in China- many of China's models look very similar to american cars. The makers protest, but who do you complain to? <br /> <br />Another thing that they don't want you to know, is that in China pollution control is pretty much ZERO. So we might be one world but it isn't gonna be around much longer. <br /> <br />By the way, working conditions are pretty much zippo squat. So if we're propping up a new economy, it's only very poorly, and we should be ashamed of ourselves for doing so. <br /> <br />In the face of this, the ultimate question is; will our costs go down? No. We'll still be paying the same as if a union guy with three kids and benifits was making that model, or a unknown guy getting a nickel and hour was stamping the presses. That's the part that irks me. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />[#ditto][tup] <br /> <br />That's why they call China a 3rd world country. I have no care for the USA to trade with them, or even act friendly towards China, we should completely stay away from Asia, Japan and the Phillipines being the exceptions because those two countries have been under USA control, (read:liberation) and their government actually has democracy.
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