You get what you pay for - cheap products and NO good-paying jobs.
By Daniel at 21 January, 2010, 12:23 pm
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We have sent all of these jobs to foreign countries.
Look at the Electronics, Clothing, Steel, Cameras, Computer industries. All GONE ! It is too late to save these jobs.
We USED to be dominant in each one. We NOW have to send money out of the country to get this stuff IMPORTED.
Buying foreign products is PAYING a foreign country to train better machinists, engineers and scientists, while OUR OWN American machinists, engineers and scientists are getting laid off and standing in the UNEMPLOYMENT LINE.
Twenty or thirty years from now, Americans are going to wake up and realize that we frittered away our technology, our engineering and science, our skilled machinists, and worse of all, our own CHILDREN’S JOBS to foreign countries, one who even started a war with us (remember Pearl Harbor).
The LAST MAJOR INDUSTRY we still compete in is cars. Our WHOLE society is based on cars, shopping malls, and individual freedom to go wherever we want.
If you buy the most expensive single item ever in your life (your car) from a foreign country, you are giving away your own CHILDREN’S JOBS.
We are sending our NATIONAL WEALTH overseas as fast as you can say “Live Better, Buy WALMART”.
Do you want the ONLY source of cars in this country to be from Japan, Korea and China?
Live American, Buy American.
I will ride a bicycle before I EVER drive a foreign car and put my own countrymen out of work.
- gearhed
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I was telling a friend, who is a reporter for a local NY paper, about the internet call to boycott Chinese goods. She tells me the boycott has now extended to retail store owners. They are as sick as we are of Chinese-manufactured items that are of lousy quality, that fall apart, that don’t work, that contain dangerous substances. It’s costing them customers. Instead, they are trying to find Japanese-made substitutes!
I’m thrilled that the stores are starting to realize the problem. After three electric can openers died, one after the other, in just three months, I stopped buying them altogether. I had a microwave oven go haywire in just three weeks, turning itself on in the middle of the night. The internet broadband box wouldn’t work. The refrigerator died in a year. My VHS/DVD player, after nine months, now has only the VHS side working.
The fact that these items are priced lower doesn’t mean a damn thing if they don’t work. I now refuse to buy anything new; I only buy second-hand.
And don’t even get me started on their food and toys.