Are we Americans as dumb as we appear --- or --- is it that we just do not think? While the Chinese, knowingly and intentionally, export inferior and even toxic products and dangerous toys and goods to be sold in American markets, the media wrings its hands and criticizes the ex-Bush Administration for perceived errors.
Yet 70% of Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to the Chinese should be suspended. Well, duh..why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?
SIMPLY DO IT YOURSELF, AMERICA!!
Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says 'Made in China' or 'PRC' (and that now includes Hong Kong), simply choose another product, or none at all. You will be amazed at how dependent you are on Chinese products, and you will be equally amazed at what you can do without.
Who needs plastic eggs to celebrate Easter? If you must have eggs, use real ones and benefit some American farmer. Easter is just an example, the point is do not wait for the government to act. Just go ahead and assume control on your own.
THINK ABOUT THIS: If 200 million Americans refuse to buy just $20 each of Chinese goods, that's a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in our favor...fast!!
The downside? Some American businesses will feel a temporary pinch from having foreign stockpiles of inventory. Wahhhhhhhhhhhh !!!
The solution? Let's give them fair warning and send our own message. Most of the people who have been reading about this matter are planning on implementing this on June 4, and continue it until July 4. That is only one month of trading losses, but it will hit the Chinese for 1/12th of the total, or 8%, of their American exports. Then they will at least have to ask themselves if the benefits of their arrogance and lawlessness were worth it.
Remember, June 4 to July 4.
EVEN BETTER. . . START NOW.
Send this to everybody you know. Let's show them that we are Americans and NOBODY can take us for granted. If we can't live without cheap Chinese goods for one month out of our lives, WE DESERVE WHAT WE GET!
Pass it on, America
Marty's:
Who writes this nonsense? Why aren't these stupid, misguided pieces of nationalistic, specious, propaganda signed, so their authors can be rightly excoriated for the bumpkins that they are? Why would anyone practice even a pitiful amount of economic protectionism when it has been proven, over and over again, that protectionism and isolationism theories are harmfully counter productive? In the case of our particular relations with China, the problem does not lie in our buying more goods from them, than they buy from us...approximately 5 X in their favor...but rather the problem has been our penchant of living beyond our means and China, and other countries, affording us the credit allowing us to do so. By the measure of mini-protectionism thinking, what should our policy be towards those countries, Australia for example, with whom we have a positive balance of trade? Lower our prices, restrict our exports to them, give them rebates, buy more of their goods...or convert our cash reserves into interest bearing securities, make more money on the investment, and loan them vast amounts of money enabling them to buy more of our goods so we may then use the securities to finance the purchase of world wide raw materials, goods and services that serve to grow our own economy? Under that scenario, it would make sense to buy more Australian goods, wouldn't it? We cannot blame China, or anyone else, for our own perfidy of sound, personal economic conduct. One has only to look at our dismal rate of savings for decades, compared to other countries, particularly Asian countries, to understand our dependence on foreign debt maintaining our lifestyles. Under the circumstance of our fortunes being intertwined with a world economy now the whole of every other country's economy, it is pure folly to think that protectionism is anything but a detriment to our well being...it brings about nothing but economic contraction, higher unemployment, lessening productivity, higher costs and a diminishing GDP. So, go ahead, put the Mandarin Oranges back on the shelf and buy the good old American Dole brand canned oranges, which they have been stealing and raping from Honduras for over 100 years.
