Happy Flu Year!!!

[Brads70]

It is a China virus but it's not the people of China that are the problem but rather the government. This feeble attempt by the "media" to not place blame where it belongs sickens me.  I wonder how long before you tube removes this one..... 

[JS29]

We get every thing else from China, Why not this as well. remember the lead paint on children's toy's, and the pet food that was killing pet's.  wall-mart for supporting there economy.   

[jimynick]

I don't know if you can lay ALL the blame at Walmart's door. We're all complicit in it. Remember when a stroker crank for your Mopar was $3000+ and a set of rods was $800+? I do, and it was the coming of $300 forged cranks from China that caused the upheaval in North American parts prices. You can't blame Walmart if they're selling "widgets" for $3 that're made in China, when the US widgets go for $12. If I want a widget and it's a consumable and the chink ones last nearly, or as, long as the US ones do, guess which one we're all more likely to buy? Having said all that, I think this is an opportunity for the rest of the world to wake up to China's plan for world domination and don't let's send them the money to do it, eh?

[anlauto]

Lets try not to get to pollical here guys...

[JS29]

@jimynick  I agree, That the flow of our money going there is a bad idea. and OPEC getting our oil money was just as bad. But we are no longer dependent on there oil.

[jimynick]

Lets try not to get to pollical here guys...

No politics Alan, just facts.

[JS29]

@jimynick   

[HP2]

I don't know if you can lay ALL the blame at Walmart's door. We're all complicit in it. Remember when a stroker crank for your Mopar was $3000+ and a set of rods was $800+? I do, and it was the coming of $300 forged cranks from China that caused the upheaval in North American parts prices. You can't blame Walmart if they're selling "widgets" for $3 that're made in China, when the US widgets go for $12. If I want a widget and it's a consumable and the chink ones last nearly, or as, long as the US ones do, guess which one we're all more likely to buy? Having said all that, I think this is an opportunity for the rest of the world to wake up to China's plan for world domination and don't let's send them the money to do it, eh?

This is half the equation. We all want affordable goods, Asia provides them. The other part of this is that anyone with a 401k demands improving returns. Companies improve profitability by reducing labor costs. Labor is cheaper in Asia. Simple as that.

If we want to re-shore manufacturing several things have to happen- we all have to be willing to pay 10-15% more for goods, we all have to be willing to loose 10-15% return on investments, we all need to push the governments to put heavy taxes on income generated by offshore manufacturing to offset the tax breaks provided by foreign governments to relocate.

[RUNCHARGER]

That's all true. However I think it is pretty evident that health and ethics should not take a back door to greed. I don't think the men that died fighting WWII did so with the idea we could buy second rate crap that we don't need from countries that shoot their own university students for example.

[Topcat]

The younger generations just won't listen...

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