Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject: We have become the bitch of China.
In Walmart today I was looking for some wild caught fish. I picked up a package of frozen Alaska salmon fillets, but when I read the label it said - "harvested in the USA and processed in China."
How messed up can we get to catch fish here and have to ship them to China to have them clean it and do god knows what to them and then ship them back?
When I was discussing this with a Walmart employee he pointed out everything I had on from head to foot and even in my pockets, arms and eyeglasses came from China. (Well, he wasn't exactly right, my underwear came from Honduras.)
I used to be proud to be an American. But we have become the bitch of China.
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
Yep...
Radio Flyer (those little red wagons)... ViewMasters (Those neat little viewers we grew up with)... Harley-Davidson ($600) leather jackets... Mr. Coffee... Kitchenaid... Craftsman tools... Pennsylvania House furniture... the list is endless.
red china is someday going to hold us by the nose as they kick us in the arse... and they'll do it wearing shoes that were made on equipment that once made footwear here in the states.
Just wait until red china deep sixes one of our aircraft carriers and the entire country goes berserk... wanting revenge but then realizes that the red chinese own us... lock, stock and barrel. _________________ Be yourself... Everyone else is already taken.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
allenwrench wrote:
In Walmart today I was looking for some wild caught fish. I picked up a package of frozen Alaska salmon fillets, but when I read the label it said - "harvested in the USA and processed in China."
How messed up can we get to catch fish here and have to ship them to China to have them clean it and do god knows what to them and then ship them back?
When I was discussing this with a Walmart employee he pointed out everything I had on from head to foot and even in my pockets, arms and eyeglasses came from China. (Well, he wasn't exactly right, my underwear came from Honduras.)
I used to be proud to be an American. But we have become the bitch of China.
It is probably the same in much of Europe. I suppose rising energy prices will make it more expensive for China to transport goods; at least for the heavier items.
The irony is that as China becomes "The workshop of the world" their demand for oil increases and therefore so does the global price of oil!
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
There could come a point at which the savings from cheap labor can no longer offset the rising cost of shipping cheap goods from the other side of the world. China's power as an exporter will then wane with the increasing price of oil, and manufacturing will become more local once again, just like agriculture. They can only sustain their oil subsidies for so long before the populace must bear the full force of the market prices and have their middle class crushed back down into the peasantry once again. I wouldn't get too worked up over China. Their days are as numbered as anyone else's, perhaps even more so.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
allenwrench wrote:
When I was discussing this with a Walmart employee he pointed out everything I had on from head to foot and even in my pockets, arms and eyeglasses came from China. (Well, he wasn't exactly right, my underwear came from Honduras.)
I have heard that the U.S. only manufactures 4% of its apparel today. Wouldn't it be the ultimate of irony for the globalists, if a war broke out and America could not even outfit its armed forces in uniforms? How messed up is that?
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
I walked into a Wal-Mart once and bought Wonder Woman plates not fish, but I do shop at the local fish market where nothing is processed in China. It is hard not to buy goods that are NOT made in China but it is possible to buy less and buy local...takes effort but you can do it.
The world is China's bitch at this point, but we're right at the front of the line!
catbox _________________ Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.
-Mike Watt
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:17 pm Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
Read in Swedish media probably over a year ago something similar. Fish being processed in Thailand.
And somehow there is economy in doing this.
Well the good news is that there will be more local jobs cleaning fish. Either that or the fish we buy won't be cleaned anymore. _________________ It's not a bailout, it's a buy-in" - Nancy Pelosi
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
I do a fair amount of work for the American copper industry.
Smelters are, well, one of the filthiest industries in existence. Copper is expen$ive these days.
Word in the pits is that some of the American copper companies are going to build one or two large smelters in China. Then, they are going to mine the ore in Arizona and NM, run it through the concentrators and SX process, and then ship the concentrate to China to get run through the smelter.
My guess is that the copper refinery and wire plants will go over there as well.
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
Just remember...150 years ago, we were working them to death on our railroad projects and laughing about it.
Doesn't karma suck? _________________ The whole of human history is a refutation by experiment of the concept of "moral world order". - Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:27 am Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
catbox wrote:
It is hard not to buy goods that are NOT made in China but it is possible to buy less and buy local...takes effort but you can do it.
catbox
It's a vicious circle. Because of rising energy prices we all have less money in our pockets. Chinese goods are cheaper so we're less likely to do the patriotic thing and pay more to buy local;
We buy more goods from China, so they use more oil and coal, so world energy prices go up.
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: We have become the bitch of China.
Add the UK to that list to. Yes, certain seafoods are sent from Scotland to Thailand for de-shelling, returning for selling in the UK supermarkets. Crazy.
Most everything here made in China / Far east. Its a revelation to find something with a made in EU label on it, let alone made in UK.
I've mentioned it before, but if we (the west) loose production of basic essential items, then China, etc (the global village) will have us by the balls. Probably allready do.
Dont know the solution, were too far down the road. I TRY to buy British / EU, but near impossible, especially the non-food basics.
Gasmon _________________ Been there, Done that, Bought the tee-shirt
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