Yes, it’s a free market, it just pains me when people start barking “buy AMERICAN.” But odds are when they go to the store, they just shrug and say, “i have no choices.”
and please don’t bring your al gore rants to the stage, i’m tired of that played out crap. give up AC and start walking to work and i will listen.
Usually I agree with you, and I like your angle on many issues, but not in this instance.
If I started walking Monday morning at 7 AM, I will arrive in time to go home Tuesday afternoon.
And that’s if I only walk 9 hours a day at just over 3MPH. Can you say OUCH?
Ima – I appreciate the comments. I should have clarified more…i am tired of people TELLING ME how to live when they themselves don’t practice what they preach. heck, i’m guilty of it, too. we’re all guilty of it. i don’t want to walk to work either, my compromise with the environment was to buy a small car with good gas mileage instead of a huge SUV. i don’t expect you to walk to work. i know i wouldn’t (i’ve done that before and know it’s no treate!) :) but like i mentioned, i’m tired of people spouting off about how awful our environment is when the majority of people don’t practice what they preach. I’m tired of people saying “buy AMERICAN” and then shrug their shoulders and go to discount stores. it’s easy to talk the talk, but rarely do you see people walk the walk.
While it’s very hard to buy American because so few things are manufactured here, it’s possible to NOT buy Chinese if you look hard enough. We’ve had to cave in on small electronics but on nearly everything else there are alternatives. And we stay out of Wal-Mart. Period.
I’m glad that the fact that the Chinese just don’t care about anything but making things cheap is coming to light. Our boycott has been based more on their egregious human rights violations but we also hate buying things so flimsy they’ll have to be replaced more often. It’s not worth it.
Namaste, Prakashgi. A point well made but passion can shine through even though our thoughts are clearer than our typing skils. Oops I meant skulls. Wait, let me try that agin. Drats and double drats I better get back to wrok.
Maybe I missed it but there are so many products manufactured in China that are absolutely scary, unsafe ( Tires anyone)pet foods, toys, food, toothpaste,etc.
My son resides in Bosnia and I asked hime to read labels for manufacturing country. We in the US continue to gobble up products without checking labels.. And those companies that outsource,,, well I just hope they can afford recalls. I hope underwriters ask critical questions of a company seeking recall coverage. If you import China products, no coverage!
There are enough people trying not to buy “China Products” as the companies are getting very creative in labeling products. There is a requirement products be marked where they are made. Now you will see in much larger letters “Distributed by XYZ out of ANY AMERICAN CITY, ANY STATE. Also have noticed “USA” and “AMERICAN” being incorporated into the company title of off the wall Chinese companies. Another tactic is “owned by” “An AMERICAN Company” (very large) then “Made in China” (very small). Please be aware, and be vigilant of the products you buy. If China wants us to be their customer, we should demand the quality we would demand of ourselves in any industry. Quality does cost, our companies would again be able to compete. We the AMERICAN people can make the difference by what we buy and what we demand in quality.
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Yes, it’s a free market, it just pains me when people start barking “buy AMERICAN.” But odds are when they go to the store, they just shrug and say, “i have no choices.”
and please don’t bring your al gore rants to the stage, i’m tired of that played out crap. give up AC and start walking to work and i will listen.
Usually I agree with you, and I like your angle on many issues, but not in this instance.
If I started walking Monday morning at 7 AM, I will arrive in time to go home Tuesday afternoon.
And that’s if I only walk 9 hours a day at just over 3MPH. Can you say OUCH?
Ima – I appreciate the comments. I should have clarified more…i am tired of people TELLING ME how to live when they themselves don’t practice what they preach. heck, i’m guilty of it, too. we’re all guilty of it. i don’t want to walk to work either, my compromise with the environment was to buy a small car with good gas mileage instead of a huge SUV. i don’t expect you to walk to work. i know i wouldn’t (i’ve done that before and know it’s no treate!) :) but like i mentioned, i’m tired of people spouting off about how awful our environment is when the majority of people don’t practice what they preach. I’m tired of people saying “buy AMERICAN” and then shrug their shoulders and go to discount stores. it’s easy to talk the talk, but rarely do you see people walk the walk.
I didn’t mean to put your name as my name in my comment….what can i say, it’s the end of the day!
Just go home. And drive safely.
While it’s very hard to buy American because so few things are manufactured here, it’s possible to NOT buy Chinese if you look hard enough. We’ve had to cave in on small electronics but on nearly everything else there are alternatives. And we stay out of Wal-Mart. Period.
I’m glad that the fact that the Chinese just don’t care about anything but making things cheap is coming to light. Our boycott has been based more on their egregious human rights violations but we also hate buying things so flimsy they’ll have to be replaced more often. It’s not worth it.
A push for quality American products might start with spell-checking some of the articles here in Insurance Journal. “quandrary” indeed. :roll2:
Namaste, Prakashgi. A point well made but passion can shine through even though our thoughts are clearer than our typing skils. Oops I meant skulls. Wait, let me try that agin. Drats and double drats I better get back to wrok.
Maybe I missed it but there are so many products manufactured in China that are absolutely scary, unsafe ( Tires anyone)pet foods, toys, food, toothpaste,etc.
My son resides in Bosnia and I asked hime to read labels for manufacturing country. We in the US continue to gobble up products without checking labels.. And those companies that outsource,,, well I just hope they can afford recalls. I hope underwriters ask critical questions of a company seeking recall coverage. If you import China products, no coverage!
There are enough people trying not to buy “China Products” as the companies are getting very creative in labeling products. There is a requirement products be marked where they are made. Now you will see in much larger letters “Distributed by XYZ out of ANY AMERICAN CITY, ANY STATE. Also have noticed “USA” and “AMERICAN” being incorporated into the company title of off the wall Chinese companies. Another tactic is “owned by” “An AMERICAN Company” (very large) then “Made in China” (very small). Please be aware, and be vigilant of the products you buy. If China wants us to be their customer, we should demand the quality we would demand of ourselves in any industry. Quality does cost, our companies would again be able to compete. We the AMERICAN people can make the difference by what we buy and what we demand in quality.