Posted on 05/28/2009 5:49:24 AM PDT by kellynla
You pinged me for that, Newbie?
Got a cell? Call somebody who cares. LMAO
How long does a freeper have to be a member before they are no longer a newbie...
Back in the old days, what, 6-12 months??
Brilliant response. Newbie. Wow, never heard that one before.
Why don’t you join all those people who won’t use paperbags cause they destroy the forest, or have to shop at all natural grocery stores or watch out for the clothing made in sweatshops!? In other words the PC, anal crowd. Because that’s just what you’re sounding like by going for WalMart.
And if you start the thread, don’t you usually get pinged when people reply to the first post? Wow, I may be a newbie but I’m not that new. I guess it’s just reply only if I agree with you. That would make you kind of a newbie here wouldn’t it?
Now and then, we all respond to a specific person, but we’re talking to all in the thread. I feel kinda pushy writing “All” in the “To” box, so I usually don’t; but it was to all I was writing when I recommended the search engine, not to you particularly.
It’s obvious from the quality and quantity of your postings (which I notice daily!) that you, kellynla, do not need my advice about search engines. ;)
That out of the way...my favorite category for buying American is tools. Basic hand tools like hammers, pliers, wrenches; plus scissors and knives. The Chinese stuff is complete crap, but you can get a hundred-year-old American-made hammer on ebay and know that it will outlast you. If it’s an anvil, two or three hundred years old!
rhombus: “How is what Chinese manufacturing has done to Amnerican manufacturing much different than what Southern and Western manufacturing did to Northeastern manufacturing?”
You must be out of your mind! I have yet to hear, for example, of toxic wallboard coming from the south or west.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/AP-IMPACT-Chinese-drywall-apf-14904936.html
I’ve never seen a car (even made by the UAW) that had this level of crash test performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHZqcKj7jNM
dollar stores sell a lot of toothpaste and stuff from China... I think I will stick to ice trays and shower curtains
A similar thing happened to the company my brother worked for.
"The Puritans declared the sanctity of all honorable work. In so doing, they rejected a centuries-old division of callings into “sacred” and “secular”… This Puritan rejection of the dichotomy between sacred and secular work has far-reaching implications. It judges every honorable job to be of intrinsic value, and integrates every vocation with a Christian’s spiritual life. It makes every job consequential by regarding it as the arena for glorifying and obeying God and for expressing love (through service) to a neighbor."
Puritan Work Ethic: the Dignity of Life’s Labors,
Christianity Today, October 1979, p. 15
Many things that are made in China don’t HAVE an American-made alternative.
When’s the last time you saw an American-made DVD player, or television?
“merchandise made in America”
Where? It’s rarer than hen’s teeth...at least in my neck of the woods.
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Ditto.
Poor translation on your part.
Our domestic unions with their populist political comrades have created the Chinese opportunity you observe so bitterly today.
If America-first is a democrat position, then Republicans are on the wrong side.
Maybe we are arguing at cross purposes. Can you give me a clarifying definition of America First?
Historically, Rhombus is right. There were quality problems and you cannot select their worse against our best to make a forceful argument.
The point being now that we know about Chinese drywall how likely will you be to purchase any? As to that Chinese car?
Choice is fundamental to the free market and liberty in general. That some cheat or abuse the system (going on since the dawn of time) isn't any reason to set up some political regime to manage our lives.
We're supposed to be a free people, able to decide for ourselves how and where we will spend our money. No one likes junk and no one fears the flame like the fool who's badly burned.
I think perhaps our difference isn’t so much how we view America, but how we view China.
Throughout American history, we have when necessary faced and overcome foreign rivals which have made the mistake of tangling tangled with America. It has made us confident - and naive.
We seem to have concluded those victories have been a result of our American-ness. That we’re somehow magic. Smarter. More capable. More industrious.
Well when I go into (any) store now - I see we don’t seem to be smarter. Or more capable. Or more industrious.
We seem to have become incredibly foolish, and lazy. Squandering history’s most incredible manufacturing base - for short term gain.
China has a 5000 year history of martial strategic planning, and a population which is young, ambitious, capable and frankly, more than a bit like that of Germany before WWII. Except China is (infinitely) more powerful than was Germany.
China now owns, operates and profits from what used to be the “arsenal of Democracy”. America’s once historic manufacturing base.
We *gave* it to them.
China is now in a position to use that manufacturing base - which was the power of the sleeping giant, which Isoroku Yamamoto once referred to.
However China wishes. Even, if they decide - against us.
And Republicans are all for that??
Then Republicans are on the wrong side. And completely blind to the real issue.
Giving away America’s sovereignty and our real power - our manufacturing and technical abilities and our workforce. To a communist nation 4 times our population.
As long as we are making live difficult for unions.
Yes. I’d say we’re arguing at cross purposes.
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