CAVEAT VENDITOR, PART II

Hooray for you SF! Please keep up your good work. Sam Heath

this is so strange. For years, esp. after WWII no one bought anything from Japan if they were aware of it; mainly, as time went by, because it was junk.
And now we are hearing just what you are talking about...more and more bad stuff from China.
What really gripes me is that Walmart buys so much stuff from China. Sam Walton must be spinning in his grave. It seems to me he proudly bought American-made and now practically all of the goods in Walmart are from China. Very little is made in America.

I remember the days after WWII when it seemed the market was flooded with what we considered to be Japanese junk. I remember saying, "Is everything made in Japan?"

The difference between what was imported from Japan then and what is being imported from China now is a big one. It seems to me that Chinese imports are not only shoddy and imperfect, but potentially dangerous and potentially deadly.

And another very big difference between the Japanese imports of those days and the Chinese imports of today is that it is impossible to see the potential danger or deadliness of Chinese products.

you are right! I missed that difference. We didn't buy because it was junk; we never had to worry about danger. Symbolic of the world we live in?

Emjayne, yes, definitely symbolic of this present world. Anything to make a buck -- even if also making something potentially deadly.

Would you believe that I don't trust those people???

Go out of their way to dump billions of dollars in the Chinese economy (not to mention Mexico, but that's a subject for another time). I've had ENOUGH of this Favored Nation Status afforded to China. Why, WHY do our politicians insist on bending over backward to help them at our expense? God forbid they actually care about America first and stop feeling so damn guilty about our prosperity. Which they are working overtime to destroy, incidentally.

When the US get's most all it's wheat (which is in more food products than you can count) from China, how can anyone reconcile that with the FDA & HHS caring about safe foods and drugs. These people killed pets, poisoned toothpaste.....for Pete's sake, they can't even make toys that are safe, so, obviously the logical conclusion for evil globalist politicians is to give away the keys to the kingdom in the form of our medicine and food too? WTF?!

I get real angry at the way companies are trying to circumvent the "Made in China" label by having all the components made there but assembling the items in the US. It's turning the Made in the USA label into a big scam. You can't trust anything anymore. B@$#ards!

Who else will do it for me?

I write and I write to my "people" in Washington; it is likely they think me mad. I care not. The only thing I'm doing is attempting to get some grievances redressed.

China's a subject not soon erased from my very active and alarmed mind.

We must let them all know that we're mad as you know what and we're not going to take it anymore! (I did.)

Seriously? I don't think they give a rat's a**. they are miniacal lunitics.