16. IMPORTED FOREIGN
PRODUCTS: Most of the products we now
find for sale in our stores about 90% come from other countries.
“Why do I find canned
food from China, in our markets?”
I find frozen Salmon
filet’s Product of China in my local market right now. A disgrace. Canned
Asparagus from China,
Canned Pineapple from
Thailand, what next,
Yes Apple Juice from
China,
Not one brand of canned
Tuna from America.
What in the hell is
going on in our nation?
Lets go on strike, buy
American only.
This must end; we use to be
the pride of the world with our manufacturing ability. Now all of these
products come from Asian countries. RCA, GE, Philco, Motorola, Zenith, Admiral,
Emerson, Westinghouse, hallicrafters, National, Dumont, many major companies
are now foreign owned, or non-existent any more.
Metro Goldwin Mayer now
owned by SONY? Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore, our great American companies
are more and more owned by foreign interests.
What is China going to buy,
now that they own America? What do you think China is going to do with all the
money we are spending on products from China? What is happening to our country?
The Chinese are looking to buy American residential Real Estate, does that mean we will have a huge
influx of Chinese Citizens? You buy Chinese,
they buy America.
Lets
restore this great nation that offered the best life on earth that mankind has
ever experienced.
We have allowed our
politicians to sell us out, in the Quest of
“A One World Government”.
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I’ll put some teeth into the “Consumer Protection Agency”
to stop this.
We are offered so many products that are unsafe trash. The Consumer Protection
Agency reports that they can only test 1% of incoming products, if we didn’t
have so many imports that job would be easier.
Do you have any idea what dangerous products are on the market? I do.
In the consumer market, manufactures always weigh the cost of some safety,
versus price. Ford considered the price of possible lawsuits to correct a bad
gas tank design on the Pinto, versus the $8 each to correct the design. It was
cheaper to pay any death claims than to make the Pinto safer for you to own,
that’s disgusting. Why do we have recalls? Errors in design can be expected,
but when corners are knowingly cut, you the buyer suffer.
Products need to be designed to offer the most safety possible. For
years I’ve been repairing these design errors. Chevrolet built pickup trucks
with the gas tank outside of the frame, where those gas tanks were a danger in
collisions to the side door areas of the cab. Stupid design, and you die. I own
one of these trucks, and became afraid to drive it anymore. Now it sits.
“The Consumer Union’s”
publication has been inspecting and reporting on consumer products since 1936,
in a completely independent evaluation, to protect consumers. I commend them
for their honest reporting on product quality, and safety.
Of course that old saying
“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make the horse drink. We can only
tell you if there is something poor or wrong with a product, but we can’t stop you
from buying the product, unless it’s a safety issue.
There
are various quality products based upon price. Some items are cheap because
they only need to provide momentary use. We don’t need Diamonds to wear when we
do the laundry, but we don’t want to buy paper-machete, when we need steel
products. Whatever the quality of the product, we have state laws about a
product must be able to do the job it was designed to do, for a reasonable
time, Vs the price of purchase.
Recalls need to be enforced much sooner, and to make sure the customer
is protected from loss.
Guarantees are useless, if the seller is out of business. This happens
over and over.
We have advertisements that tell us about the glorious product, but
buyer-beware.
We have to stop the selling of bad products. I don’t mean products that
are just cheap, but products that do not to the job, that are “dangerous”, that
are totally unsafe to use, and we have some of this now, but need more coverage
on new products never before tested.
We must help our Consumer Protection Agency to help us. I am appalled
right now about all the products from China, where China didn’t use the type of
paint supplied by the American company Mattell; toys with Lead Paint, that are
chemically dangerous to our babies and young children. There is absolutely no
reason for lead paint on toys for children. Every time we turn around there are
more problems with products from China. NO more imports from China, Period.
Where are you going to get your next AK 47? Gee things are hard all
over.
I believe most citizens should own an AK 47, how does that grab you?
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All of this is a plan to
disable American production facilities, so we would never again be able to
defend ourselves.
If you buy an American
Cadillac, the pride of General Motors best engineering (?) and your “on car”
computer module goes out, guess what! That comes from Germany, and you may have
to wait up to 2 months to get a replacement part for an American car. What kind
of a deal is that? Globalization again? But, Cadillac leaves a lot to be
desired, if
Cadillac is the best America can make; I know; I own one.
I just had to replace
a relay that feeds 12v to the Starter Solenoid, guess where the replacement
relay was manufactured? CHINA. Cost $25. for what should cost at the most $4.
if made in America.
When I go to an auto parts store I find brake drums from China, other
products made in Mexico, only Oil (imported of course), and antifreeze seems to
be made in America. Go to the tire store, tires from Yugoslavia, or Japan, with
American sounding names. Tools, with names like “Pittsburgh”, product after
product with very American sounding names, and place of manufacture (China) in
very small print.
If we need Tanks for our military, shall we order them from BMW?
Mercedes? Toyota? Hyundai? Airplanes from “Mattel”? oh! That’s right all those
toys come from China anyway. Military clothing now comes from China too, this
is a disgrace.
American flags you wave to
show pride in America, “Made in China”.
We really won’t need the military anymore, since we won’t be able
to fight anyone, we will be disarmed.
Part of the safety, of being part of the United
Nations.
Misbehave, and United
Nations troops will be here to control your misbehaving.
Master Soldiers of the
United Nations at our rescue, to shut us up.
Try to find repair parts for a TV set anymore, your choice is
mostly buy a new TV set, they want up to $80 for a high voltage transformer for
a $150 TV set. Of course the new flat screen TV’s don’t use that high voltage
anymore. You use to plan on about 2 or 3 service calls a year on your TV set, now
we hardly ever take the back off of any set for years. New sets have no back,
all plastic molded with no chassis as the old TV sets had.
Many TV’s have never been
opened until the owner decides to buy a newer TV. I’ve had RCA’s with a
constant repair problem and other brands, with constant intermittent problems,
that are not worth the labor to pay for repairs when it costs more than 50% of
the cost of a newer better product, that has a warrantee.
There is very little service
information for any foreign manufactured equipment any more. Planned
obsolescence, just throwaway, and buy new, not very Green ecosystem as far as I’m
concerned. All too many items are un-repairable, just modular replacement. I
want more and more, “component level” repairs possible. Of course so many of
our technicians don’t know how to repair a lot of today’s high-tech products.
They just keep trying module after module until they become lucky to find your
problem. Of course you will pay for each module they tried, since once they plug
it in, now it’s used. So you have bought it. Hey it’s only money.
In my own car, the window
assembly has a small plastic piece that fits in a guide, when the little
plastic piece breaks, my window won’t roll up, electric motor works;
manufactures cure? Buy the entire motor and window scissor assembly for $450
for the part only, (plus labor), which no less is Riveted to the inside of
the door. All because a little plastic piece 1 ½“ long X ¾“ wide X 1/8th
inch thick breaks, where there is a 3/8 diameter hole for the pin on the arm.
Only “unit reparable”, no repair parts. Of course I’m going to make my own
plastic piece out of aluminum. That’s Cadillac for you. I’ve owned a
number of General Motors cars, and I’ve never been that thrilled with any of
them, I’ve seen too many corners cut on engineering, to be a happy owner of any
GM product. I’m advising you to buy American cars, but, you know what? They had
better start making better cars.
Huge profit in this modular
replacement market for repairs, because the manufacture doesn’t want people to
learn to repair at the component level. Customer rip off deluxe. Wonder why
cars cost so much anymore, and if you have a minor accident, the car is
totaled.
What happened to front and
rear bumpers? Open grill to get mashed in during parking, Plastic trim where
the bumper use to be, that we see fallen off and on the side of the street. If
you have a slight bump, only $6000 to fix. Hey you’re rich what’s a few hundred
dollars for each little piece that falls off. Plastic radiators, plastic
everything. Even Plastic money, but those banks want real America Dollars when
you pay the bill. At least my car still has a real steel bumper.
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Did you realize that after Feb. 2009 all normal TV
sets no longer worked? You will “have” to buy the new WIDE SCREEN,
DIGITAL TV sets, (foreign made), or you will do “without” TV. Or buy
an adapter box for an estimated $40 discount for “each” (foreign made)
to use any older TV. When TV sets were made in America, repair parts were
available. The shock will come to the new purchasers also when they buy a new
TV with DLP system, that uses a special lamp with about a “2000 hour life
time”, replaceable for about $300. plus service call. Fortunately if you are on
Cable, or Dish TV your standard NTSC TV set will continue to work. I have not
bought one of the new type TV’s. I have to live with my old set, and I’m happy
with the reception.
Notice that expiration date for regular TV reception,
corresponded to one month after Obama was sworn in to office, they want to make
sure all of you could see that event. Now that date was extended to June12, 09,
because many viewers had been unable to get coupons for the converter boxes,
BUT the converter box is not the only answer, for many, installing outside
antenna’s may be necessary, and even then reception may be iffy.
We still have AM radio, and FM radio after all this time
(although that too will soon change), there was no reason to stop NTSC TV, our
normal 4:3 aspect TV reception was sufficient, until 90% of the households have
bought the new High Definition TV sets. Most poor people, and that includes
most of us, can’t afford to buy a new wide screen TV, and the extra cost cable
charges, when we really have been very satisfied with our standard TV
operation. Both systems can co-exist. Hi definition TV is not all that it’s
cracked up to be. I notice digital glitches, signal dropouts, and blurred
effects with fast movements. We are being sold a package that I’m not sure all
of us really need. No more recording on videotape in the 6-hour mode, in fact
“no more recording on videotape or DVD’s”.
Our government claims they want to “SELL” the spectrum
space used by these normal TV channels 2-82. “SELL!”
The government claims this space is needed for other communication channels.
They are telling that to the wrong person, there is plenty of channel space for
all these other needs. I know; I’ve worked in this industry for 60 years.
It’s as if the government really owns the airwave frequencies,
we have empowered the FCC to control the usage of these
frequencies to insure each user has good results, and protected
from other users who are suppose to operate only on their assigned channel,
nothing else.
The Government does not own
anything, but to license and be sure that users operate according to the law on
power and the assigned frequency channel, and not cause any interference to
other users of other frequencies.
There is a lot of unused
space between VHF Channel 13 and UHF 14, where it is actually a very usable
frequency area for mobile communication. It is marked for Government use. Yeah
sure, sucker.
If we actually have another World War, we would not have the
ability to manufacture those items we need to win, (makes you wonder
if this is the governments total plan).
We were the pride of the world when our citizens went to work
to build the equipment we needed to win WW II. Now those plants are closed down.
We really are defenseless, without the ability to produce that
kind of military equipment.
(We are being
disarmed)
Most all imports arrive in container cargo packaging, on ships
that use OIL to run the ships. How much OIL is wasted for shipping “in to, and
out of “ our country? “Too much”. While “WE” are told to conserve oil, this is
a huge waste. These ships should be using nuclear power.
Visit our stores, and look where most of the products on sale
come from. Do you want General Motors, Ford, Chrysler replaced by Toyota,
Honda, Mercedes, Kia, Hyundai, VW, BMW?
Who won WW II?
Our furniture, and textile industries are now gone, to foreign
manufacturers.
The microprocessors in your computers are (were) American made;
“everything else” in your computer is made out of the United States. Now Intel
is building a manufacturing plant in China, why?
IBM
sold their PC Division to a Chinese company Linova, can you imagine that?
Yes most of our foods still
come from America, but not forever, as we pay other countries to grow, and ship
food to America as with the Asparagus scandal with Peru. I realize that
off-season, for fresh food, that we have imports to serve our citizens. But I
want those foods to be safe, grown under safe conditions. It’s bad enough that
we have fresh vegetables grown in America that aren’t safe.
The recent contaminated
Tomato scare, and now they say it was Peppers from Mexico, only some 1400 made
ill from this problem, and our government couldn’t trace the source?
Our benevolent government
now is in control of all the irrigation water in California, and has
turned of the pumps, so our farms are drying up. Don’t need to feed the nation
from the California Bread Basket. We can just import all of our foods from now
on.
The government
can tell you instantly where a crop of POT came from. Don’t you feel safer now?
But: our government has a solution, of course, “not caused by a
conspiracy of course”, our government will just close all the farms, and only government
sponsored farms will be allows to ship food to market. Just to protect little
old, or young you. Isn’t that wonderful?
Foods
from China killing your pets, antifreeze in your toothpaste, from China, but
our government is here to protect you?
Of course we still make
cigarettes in America. WOW.
We do still have a
considerable chemical industry still in America.
I rarely find anything else
made in America anymore. DO YOU?
Oh yes! You can buy American
made Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer to clear out Federal Buildings.
A bit of cleaning up the
environment.